Learn about 19th-century manners and etiquette with Routledge's Manual of Etiquette - Town Compass® eBook. From courtship to toasts to ballroom dancing to proper meat carving, the Manual of Etiquette covers them all.

The eBook contains:

• Full-color Cover Page, Storage Card Compatibility, Searchable Text

• Introduction, including historical biographical information about George Routledge

• Etiquette for Ladies, including Introductions, Letters of Introduction, Visiting/Morning Calls/Cards, Conversation, Notes of Invitation, The Promenade, Dress, Morning & Evening Parties, The Dinner-table, The Ball-room, Staying at a Friend's House, and General Hints

• Etiquette for Gentlemen, including Introductions, Letters of Introduction, Visiting/Morning Calls/Cards, Conversation, Notes of Invitation, The Promenade, Dress, Riding & Driving, Morning & Evening Parties, The Dinner-table, The Ball-room, Staying at a Friend's House, and General Hints

• Ball-Room Guide, including How to organize a Ball, Ball-room Toilettes, Etiquette of the Ball-room, The Quadrille, The Caledonians, The Lancers, The Double Lancers, Coulon's Double Quadrille, The Polka, The Cellarius, The Mazurka Quadrille, The Polka Mazurka, The Redowa or Redova, The Schottische, The Varsoviana or Varsovienne, The Gorlitza, The Valse à Trois Temps, The Valse à Deux Temps, The New Valse, The Galop, The Cotillon, The Spanish Dance, The Tempête, Sir Roger de Coverley, and Glossary of Terms

• Courtship & Matrimony, including First Steps in Courtship, Etiquette of Courtship, Etiquette of an Engagement, Preliminary Etiquette, Etiquette of a Wedding, Etiquette after the Wedding, and Practical Advice to Newly-married Couples

• How to Dress Well, including Introduction, Taste in Dress, Fashion in Dress, Expense of Dress, Accessories, and A Few Words More

• How to Carve, including Introduction, Carving Fish, Carving Joints, and Carving Poultry & Game

• Toasts & Sentiments, including Amatory, Bacchanalian, Comic, Conservative, Gastronomic, English, Irish, Scotch, Liberal, Literary, Loyal, Masonic, Military, Naval, Religious, Sentimental, Sporting, Miscellaneous, and Latin