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American Manners.
Much has been written and more said about American manners, or rather the American lack of manners.

Americans have frequently been criticized for their bad breeding, and many sarcastic references to American deportment have been made in my presence.

I have even been told, I do not know how true it is, that European diplomats dislike being stationed in America, because of their aversion to the American way of doing things.
Much too has been written and said about Chinese manners, not only by foreigners but also by Chinese.

One of the classics, which our youth have to know by heart, is practically devoted entirely to manners.
There has also been much adverse criticism of our manners or our excess of manners, though I have never heard that any diplomats have, on this account, objected to being sent to China.