Excerpt from New Practical Anglo-Chinese Conversation Conversation is less conventional than writing -as regards the arrangement of thought and the construction of sentences, its import being generally conveyed through the medium of gestures; but the fact that conversation requires promptness of thought and no less accurate expressmn makes it a difficult art, which can be attained only through years of long practice. 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.