"FULL OF SERVICEABLE INFORMATION." 



HANDBOOK OF CONVERSATION: 



Its Faults and Its Graces. 



COMPRISING 



1. Dr. Peabody's Lecture. 2. Mr. Trench's Lecture. 

 3. Mr. Parry Gwinn's "A Word to the Wise; or, 

 Mints on the Current Improprieties of Ex- 

 pression in Writing and Speaking." 

 4. Mistakes and Improprie- 

 ties in Speaking and 

 Writing Cor- 

 rected. 



COMPILED BY 



ANDREW P. PEABODY, D.D., L.L.D., 



Late of Harvard University. 

 Cloth, 50 Centi. 



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