... has of recent years been so wholeheartedly accepted by American specialists that Mr. Bernard DeVoto even asserts that the tall story is an art sharply and autochthonously American unique. The converse assertion, that British humor depends on understatement, has not as yet developed so vociferous...

... provides models of lessons he learned before Hemingway did. IV Perhaps the most significant link between the two writers, one which grows out of their common vernacular heritage, but which ultimately transcends it, is the colloquial habit of understatement, the deliberate use of simple modifiers like nice...

... of the logical distortions involved in behaving as though the existing order were natu- ral and meaningful. His distinctly personal style combining wit and understatement gives expres- sion to a penetrating critique...

... documents show how eagerly the Spanish and their Ger­ man friends grabbed the bait. Fairly large German forces were sent to Greece and to the wrong beaches in Sicily. The author has told his tale with the usual British understatement. It is highly recommended to mystery fans and to the paper-back publishers...

... is likely to degenerate toward a slum. The effect upon the national psychology of thus living in the litter is likely to be depressive is one of his understatements. Not So Rich As You Think is a valuable reminder that everything we produce must be re-cycled into our productive system, or else fitted...

... of Hawthorne s self-abasement was doubtless prompted by his modesty, and much of it was intended as obvious understatement, but some of it seems both sincere and just. In 1841 he wrote to Sophia Peabody of composing his tales in Salem, the region of sleepy-head and stupidity, and added, I suppose...

... with the usual British understatement. It is highly recommended to mystery fans and to the paper-back publishers. Theodore ropp ...

... and gentle entertainment. Theodore Ropp. Pepperell s Progress: History of a Cotton Textile Company, 18441945. By Evelyn H. Knowlton. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948. Pp. xxix, 511. $5.00. This book is a record of business success, undramatic and prolonged success. With this laconic understatement...

... told his tale with the usual British understatement. It is highly recommended to mystery fans and to the paper-back publishers. Theodore ropp ...

... Bruck. This has been well done before, but Mosse s presentation is distinguished by its comprehensiveness and balanced tone. His judicious use of understatement makes the bizarre ideas he describes seem all the more incredible. The real value of The Crisis of German Ideology lies in the author s...

... de Lagarde, Julius Langbehn, Oswald Spengler, and Moeller van den Bruck. This has been well done before, but Mosse s presentation is distinguished by its comprehensiveness and balanced tone. His judicious use of understatement makes the bizarre ideas he describes seem all the more incredible...

... to justify using footnotes. Despite the sentimental and dramatic possibilities of her subject, crisp understatement is the guiding tone. One is rather surprised when, in the final notes, she refers to having written an inspirational story. Three Saints and a Sinner, then, neatly interweaves color and fact...

... dominated it, a servant to her privileged situation. We may read this into her books which Mr. Lubbock hardly discusses at all, for his is a personal Portrait. His prin­ cipal explanation of her art is by indirection and understatement: Be­ tween the worldly and the literary lay her range, touching...

.... It will come as a surprise, for example, to most students of Carolina material to know that Brickell copied Lawson, and for our lofty Virginians to learn that the Natural History of Virginia by William Byrd II was in great part copied from Lawson. It is a gross understatement for the jacket to say: Edited...

... that the Natural History of Virginia by William Byrd II was in great part copied from Lawson. It is a gross understatement for the jacket to say: Edited with an Introduction and Notes. Clearly, Mr. Lefler has brought forward a Lawson that can be understood, easily read, and appreciated by people who heretofore...

... and distinction. Since the work departs radically from the orthodox canons of Cold War politics, his achieve­ ment is all the more remarkable. This has been, he writes with modest understatement, a difficult undertaking at a time when nearly all of the great organs of public opinion management have been massed...

... possibilities of her subject, crisp understatement is the guiding tone. One is rather surprised when, in the final notes, she refers to having written an inspirational story. Three Saints and a Sinner, then, neatly interweaves color and fact, re­ portage and quiet partisanship. Mrs. Tharp, we find, wishes...

... of comedy. In particular, he uses a great deal of exaggeration and a lesser but still generous amount of understatement. The exaggeration comes in part from the old, English tradition of mock-heroic humor and in larger part from the new, American tradition of tail-tale or frontier humor. The understatement...

... sentence on Greeley something of an understatement: Much of his Career had been spent in vain. Robert H. Woody. The School in the American Social Order: The Dynamics of American Education. By Newton Edwards and Herman G. Richey. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. Pp. xiv, 880. $5.00. This is a good...

.... xxix, 511. $5.00. This book is a record of business success, undramatic and prolonged success. With this laconic understatement, the editors introduce the thirteenth volume of the Harvard Studies in Business History. Consider­ ing the characteristic instability of the highly competitive textile...