Excerpt from Our Conversational Circle The world which cares for such matters has been told so often that conversation is one of the lost arts that it has come to be taken for granted that this highest form of social expression must find its place, with chain armor and Watteau's shepherd esses, among the things of the past. Essay ists have hinted in many unmistakable ways that the generation which now dines and talks has parted with one of those finer resources which gave the society of a more fortunate time a charm which still imparts to certain memoirs and letters a delicate perfume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.