内容简介：
Always delightful, charmingly urbane, essays on the niceties of life, on a wide variety of subjects. Reading, courtesy, Americans, clothes. Christmas celebrations, the younger generation, efficiency, and so on and so on. One might almost say that Nicolson is a Beverley Nichols without his preciosity, and with less humor. Quietly and pleasantly English -- the sort of belles lettres that one rarely encounters today. Ideal for pick-up reading on a train, or for the bedside table.