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CONTENTS Introduction I What Is Best SocietyII Introductions III Greetings IV Salutations Of Courtesy V On The Street And In Public VI At Public Gatherings VII Conversation VIII Words, Phrases And Pronunciation IX One's Position In The Community X Cards And Visits XI Invitations, Acceptances And Regrets XII The Well-Appointed House XIII Teas And Other Afternoon Parties XIV Formal Dinners XV Dinner-Giving With Limited Equipment XVI Luncheons, Breakfasts And Suppers XVII Balls And Dances XVIII The Débutante XIX The Chaperon And Other Conventions XX Engagements XXI First Preparations Before A Wedding XXII The Day Of The Wedding XXIII Christenings XXIV Funerals XXV The Country House And Its Hospitality XXVI The House Party In Camp XXVII Notes And Shorter Letters XXVIII Longer Letters XXIX The Fundamentals Of Good Behavior XXX Clubs And Club Etiquette XXXI Games And Sports XXXII&am
PREFACEThis little work contains the chief ideas gathered together for a course of lectures on the theory and history of aesthetics given at Harvard College from 1892 to 1895. The only originality I can claim is that which may result from the attempt to put together the scattered commonplaces of criticism into a system, under the inspiration of a naturalistic psychology. I have studied sincerity rather than novelty, and if any subject, as for instance the excellence of tragedy, is presented in a new light, the change consists only in the stricter application to a complex subject of the principles acknowledged to obtain in our simple judgments. My effort throughout has been to recall those fundamental aesthetic feelings the orderly extension of which yields sanity of judgment and distinction of taste.The influences under which the book has been written are rather too general and pervasive to admit of specification; yet the student of philosophy will not fail to perceive how much I owe to writers, both living and dead, to whom no honour could be added by my acknowledgments. I have usually omitted any reference to them in foot-notes or in the text, in order that the air of controversy might be avoided, and the reader might be enabled to compare what is said more directly with the reality of his own experience.G. S.September, 1906
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