There's a neat little book called "The Clumsiest People In Europe", edited by Todd Pruzan and originally written by Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer. The subtitle tells it all: "Mrs. Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide To The Victorian World."

Before reading this book I never knew that the Welsh, for example, were industrious but unclean, even though they whitewash their huts and even pigsties at least once a year. The English, of course, could be the happiest people in the world because there are so many bibles there.