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Recent Additions to the IPL Online Texts Collection 12-21-00

Dear David,

I think that the following item may be miscatalogued.  

Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830. _Table-Talk: Essays on Men and Manners_.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3020
Dewey Subjects:
     395.142 Etiquette (Manners) for Males
LC Subjects:
     Table-talk

I don't have a copy to hand, but if I remember correctly, it's manners in
the sense of doing and being rather than in the sense of etiquette.  I _do_
have a copy of the 1852 edition of Hazlitt's "Men and Manners: Sketches and
Essays" -- I think this is a different book from "Table-Talk" although I'm
not absolutely certain.  "Men and Manners" includes essays on reading new
books, nicknames, editors, footmen, sundials, prejudice, knowledge of the
world, why the heroes of romance are insipid and cant and hypocrisy.  

Is there a Dewey classification for essays?  

With best wishes,

Betty Hagglund
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich, UK
gcoffi@[redacted]