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These are mournful days for the Polite Arts. One by one they are passing away-the Art of Conversation, the Art of Paying Calls, the Art of Letter Writing.
The Art of Conversation is no longer even a subject for conversation. No one so much as remembers of what it died. Did it languish and fade away into an Eternal Pause as such a dignified gentleman of the old school as the Art of Conversation would be expected to do-or was it murdered?