The founding director of a top finishing school offers advice on personal appearance, including hair, jewelry, makeup and clothing, and proper behavior at parties, weddings and other social occasions Oliver, who owns a finishing school, has written an etiquette book for the debutante set. Most families will not be able to afford the jewelry and other items she lists as "needs" for a teenage daughter, although her chapters on communication and entertaining are well written and could apply to anyone. Two new etiquette books that are more useful to libraries are Letitia Baldrige's Complete Guide to the New Manners for the '90s ( LJ 1/90) and Judith Martin's Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 7/89. Either book has more information on entertaining, communication, dress, common courtesies, etc. If your public or school library has debutante patrons, this would be a good purchase; otherwise, pass on it. - Betsy Kraus, New Mexico Inst. of Mining & Technology Lib., Socorro Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.