Chapter 13

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._