Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Table Talk in the Home
A collection of the nine greatest essays on conversation in our language. These are: Of Discourse, by Francis Bacon; Conversation, by Thomas De Quincey; The Principles of the Art of Conversation, by J. P. Mahaffy; Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation, and Genteel and Ingenious Con versation, by Jonathan Swift; On the Conversation of Authors, and On the Conversation of Lords, by William Hazlitt; Truth Of Intercourse, and Talk and Talkers, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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