Common Courtesy [antikvár]

When I had thehonor of giving Harvard University's John M. Olin Distinguished Lecture, from which this slender volume is derived, I became only the second scholar from the rigorous discipline of etiquette to address that otherwise distinguished center of learning.The first was Cotton Mather, who many times delivered hiniself of strong opinions on the subject of Harvard deportment. He and I have not always agreed about the fine points of civility, but at least he was not given to say-ing, "Do whatever makes you feel comfort-