A best seller in the 1880s and has proved to be so now this favourite edition is now in its 15th reprint with some 150,000 copies sold.

Don't decorate your shirt front with egg or coffee deposits.

Don't forget to raise your hat to every lady acquaintance you meet.

Don't fail to heed all the Don'ts in this little book.

Perhaps you think the injunctions are not needed in your care. This is true of many of them no doubt; but the rest of us are not perfect in manners any more than anything else.