Chapter V: Letter IV: MANNER--(Continued.)

PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS.--Senator Sumner's appropriate
Sentence--Primary importance of Manner at Home--A reiterated
Charge--Manner to Parents--Unvarying confidence and reverence
due to a Father--Tenderness of Manner to a Mother--Example of
Washington--A Revolutionary Ball--Nature the best Teacher of
Duty--Too great familiarity, even with Relations, objectionable
--Manner to Brothers and Sisters--No assumption of superiority
justified by Birthright, or Circumstances--Every Man the
Guardian of his Sisters--A Sister's Love--Manner to a Wife--
The preservation of her Affection--The "Spectator," and a
Sketch of an Old-School Husband--Impressive Teaching--A Plea
for Old-Fashioned Authors--Reverence for the _Lares_ should
be inviolate--The Graces of Manner always discerned by the
Gentler Sex--The Sensibility of Woman--Domestic Politeness--
Cheerful Manner in conferring Favors--Importance of Trifles,
in this respect--The true nobleness of Manhood--Aphorism of
the Latinists--Manner to Children--Their Innocence and
Susceptibility--The Influence of Example in this regard--
Children judges of Character--Power of the Law of Love over
the Young--Supremacy of Moral Obligation--Manner not to be
regarded as insignificant by the Christian Gentleman--Manner
to the Unfortunate--Towards Servants and Inferiors--Arrogance
to be avoided--Mode of addressing Domestics--Queen Elizabeth
and her Courtiers--Effect of a pleasant Word and a pleasant
Tone--Peculiar sensitiveness of the Uneducated In this respect
--The professional figure of an old Soldier!--Manifestations
of Sympathy for Inferiors in Station--Readily instructed by
a kind Manner, 98

ANECDOTES AND TALES, ILLUSTRATIVE OF MANNER.

EMPERORS NOT ALWAYS WELL-BRED.--Manner of Napoleon le Grand
to Women--A Family Levee--Reply of the Mother of Bonaparte to
her Son--Napoleon's stringent enforcement of Court Rules--The
First Consul and the Lady's Train--Josephine's timidity and
her Husband's brutality--Maria Louise's Bridal-Scene--An
almost sacrilegious Misnomer, 104

A FATHER'S REBUKE.--A Steamer on the Ohio--The two Friends--
Cabin-Chit-chat--Youthful mirth reproved--The effect of a
Scene--The fortunate Guest--A Family Mansion and Family
Group--A "Study," 105

The Moral Sublime: An Anecdote, 110

The Sailor and his Mother, 111

THE BROTHERS.--Early Separation--Home Meetings--The pomposity
of the Alderman--A Family Quarrel--The respectful Son--The
Recording Angel--Charley visits the City--A Morning Call--Its
Result, 111

Washington Irving's Sketch of an old English Gentleman, 113

The Poet Rogers and his Man Friday, 114

THE FAMILY GREEN-ROOM, OR LIFE BEHIND THE SCENES.--An old
Soldier Weather-bound--A Morning Sortie--An Invitation--
Youthful Hospitality--A Nursery Fixture--The "Eldest Son and
Hope of the House"--A playful Salutation--The "Land of
Promise"--An Armful--Lunch--An unexpected Interposition--An
Overland Journey--A Catastrophe--Rubicon Crossing--The
Dolphin--The baked Apple--A "Poor Man"--The "Cup of Cold
Water"--A Stick for each--Spectacled Reconnoitering--Cheerful
Words--Devotional Scene--Scientific Inquiry--A Capture--Escape
by Stratagem--Almost a Martyr--The old Soldier re-visits the
"Mess" of his Camp-ground--A dangerous Invader--Green-room
Asides--A Rehearsal--College Comforts--A Sketch by one of
'em--A Stage-Trick--Anecdote of John Kemble, the Actor--A
Disclaimer and a Commentary--Exit of a "Star"--Table-Talk, 115