168 Aug. Western: Anm. af the time of the year, might perhaps best be given in Norwegian by det er ganske koldt idag, or det er sandelig koldt idag, while the half-ironical 7 am quite afraid of you would be jeg er formelig rœd dig. As in English, so also in Norwegian these sentence-modifying words are weak-stressed. Thus in the example given above, hun er virkelig vakker, virkelig is weak, and vakker strong. If in this sentence, virkelig were to be pronounced with strong stress, the sense would be completely altered: it would then give the result of the careful examination on the part of the speaker of ἃ lady be had never seen before. This difference is perhaps brought out most clearly in the case of ren, rent. Both the adjective and the adverb are used with weak stress as sentencemodifiers: han er en ren djævel (a downright devil), et rent svin («every inch» a pig), while the same compliment pronounced with strong-stressed rent would call up the somewhat rare phenomenon of a «clean pig». Perhaps the most interesting Norwegian sentence-modifier is rigtig, which, when weak-stressed, always covers .a hidden meaning. If a teacher says to a schoolboy: dette har du skrevet rigtig pent, it is rather a qualified praise, intimating that the young gentleman is not in general an expert in the art of calligraphy, while łan skriver rigtig pent, with strong-stressed rigtig, means that there can be but one opinion of his writing being truly beautiful. When one lady says of another lady, Aun har to rigtig söde småpiger, there is an undercurrent of haughty condescension in the words, implying that this happy mother (poor thing!) ought to be thankful to Heaven for having got much prettier girls than she deserves. An Ensign’s wife would never dare to use such an expression of the Colonel’s daughters; it would be a case of very gross insubordination. After this digression I now return to Mr. Stoffel’'s book. In the two following chapters the author treats of so and as, and here he succeeds in pointing out very clearly the difference between a man as busy as you and a man so busy as you, the former denoting the equality of two persons in respect of ἃ quality, the latter simply marking a very high degree of a quality without reference to any other person. As the author says (on page 71) that «Prof. Storm by the way is the only writer on English usage known to me who 1. c. has drawn attention to the fact that ‘ʻa man so busy as you are’, does not mean the same thing as ‘ʻa man as busy as you are», I here seize the opportunity of claiming the priority of this statement for my late esteemed teacher and friend, Overlærer Jacob Lökke, who, in his «Engelsk Grammatik til Skolebrug» pointed out this difference very clearly several years before Prof. Storm's book ap-