Book excerpt: "Bashfulness Cured: Ease and Elegance of Manner Quickly Gained" is a Victorian-era book on personal growth. Being a successful and confident communicator is a necessary ingredient of success in our times. A hundred years ago, this trait was even more important, and you could only reach success in case you knew all the peculiarities of behavior in society. The book's author reminds the readers that "Manners Make the Man" teaches them how to get the proper ones.