A a A A f Aug. Western: Anm. af Stoffel, Intensives and Down-toners. 165 ikke göre nogen bemærkning. Det er dels altfor sikre stedsnavne, der her er tale om, dels er forf.s forsøg på at flytte dem til Sandefjord alle lige hårtrukne og forfejlede, tildels på grund af den ganske ukritiske benyttelse af kilderne og de evindelige umetodiske fortólkninger. Rekorden slår forf., når han vil bevise, at det velbekendte «Vik» («Viken») d. v. s. Kristianiafjorden, oprindelig skal være en «vig» i Sandefjorden (s. 88 ff.), hvilket bl. a. støttes ved at «den indre del af Sandefjorden . .…. kaldes i daglig tale gærne «Bugta»». Men det indrömmes, at «Navnet «Vik» som navnet «Kaupang» kan tale for Viksfjord» — ja, skal vi endelig søge Viken andetsteds end dér, hvor den altid har været, skal vi så ikke heller holde på Viksfjorden? — det «smager dog altid af fugl». Resultatet af det hele er, at forf.s afhandling i det hele ikke har bragt de behandlede spörsmål videre — undtagen hvad Skiringssals nordøstlige udstrækning angår — , men tværtimod søger at forplumre det og i det hele må betegnes som forfejlet. København, i Decbr. 1900. Finnur Jónsson. C. Stoffel, Intensives and Down-toners. A Study in English Adverbs. (Anglistischê Forschungen, hrsg. von J. Hoops. 1.) Heidelberg 1901, Winter. 156 pp. The above mentioned book contains a very interesting study of the present and past use of several adverbs which would seem, at first sight, not to present any difficulty at all to somewhat advanced students of English. How many ever asked themselves if there is anything particular in the use of such words as immediately, by and by, soon, very, quite, so, raiher, and others, apart from what is said about them in ordinary grammars and dictionaries? And yet we need only read a few pages of Mr. Stoffel’s book to find out our mistake. The author soon convinces us that there is a good deal to be said about them that has not been said before, and he says it in such a manner that when we have once opened the book, it is next to impossible to put it by till we have gone through it all. The book consists of two parts: I. On Intensive Adverbs, and II. On «Down-toning» Adverbs, each part preceded by an Introductory Chapter. Of these the former takes up the greater part of the book (128 out of 153 pages), treating fully of the words full, pure, very, right, quite, so, and as, besides glancing at several others, while the second part treats fully of the two adverbs rather and pretty only.