Canter Bridge

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Some of the polite arts that become trumped by technology on a functional level nevertheless preserve their potency as communicative acts. Such is the handwritten note in the age of email, voicemail, and Instant Messaging.

Rarely is so much practical wisdom found in such a diminutive book. A Gentleman Pens a Note is chock full of the kind of all too rare courtesy that sets its practitioner part and contributes to a kinder, gentler world. Although the topic is how to pen that appropriate brief note for almost any occasion, the respect for the other that this work embodies has application to many other facets of life together. That very respect is the core of what we honor—or neglect—as civilized life.

Every time I read a new volume in the ‘Gentlemanners’ series, I feel that this one is surely the best. WIth the equanimity of hindsight, each one makes a genuine contribution to what is in fact a superb series on how to make someone else’s life just a little bit easier.