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27830	Conklin, Mary Greer	Conversation What to Say and How to Say it			.txt	text/plain	23112	873	60	WHAT CONVERSATION IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT PAGE What is the aim of conversation?--The talk of Coleridge and Macaulay--Browning's delightful conversation--Why we go into society--The elements of good conversation--What it is not--Genius and scholarship not essential to good conversation 21 Chapter II DISCUSSION _VERSUS_ CONTROVERSY Dr. Johnson's and Robert Louis Stevenson's opinion of discussion--Politeness and discussion--The hostess in discussion--Flat contradiction in discussion--Polemical squabbles--Brilliant discussion in France--The secret of delightful conversation in France--Leading the talk--Topics for discussion--Gladstone's conversation 35 Chapter III GOSSIP Gossip in literature--Gossip comes from being of one kindred under God--Gossip and the misanthrope--Personal history of people we know and people we don't know--Gossip of books of biography--Interest in others gives fellowship and warmth to life--Essential difference between slander and innocent gossip--The psychology of the slanderer--The apocryphal slanderer--Talking behind another's back--Personal chat the current coin of conversation 63 Chapter IV Why cultivating the social instinct adds strength to business persuasion--Secret of the ability to use tactful and vivid words in business--Essential training necessary to the nice use of words--Business success depends upon nicety and tact more than on any quality of force 161 Chapter VIII CONCLUSION Conversation is reciprocal--Good conversationalists cannot talk to the best advantage without confederates--As in whist it is the combination which effects what a single whist-playing genius cannot accomplish--Good conversation does not mark a distinction among subjects; It denotes a difference in talkability--The different degrees of talkability--Imperturbable glibness impedes good conversation--Ease with which one may improve one's conversational powers 175 CHAPTER I _INTRODUCTORY_ WHAT CONVERSATION IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT _	cache/27830.txt	txt/27830.txt
