he two heroes are not very heroic, Edward
Ferrars being only a curate and Col. Brandon a poor old man of
36 with a flannel waistcoat; but the latter is pretty thoroughly
the gentleman and the former gives up a fortune of 30,000 pounds
in order to marry a girl whom he does not love, thereby
furnishing, if not an example of good sense, at least an
agreeable contrast to Marianne's lover, Willoughby, who marries
a girl whom he does not love in order to get the money which he
is too genteel to earn.

On the whole, it is a wonderful book to have been written by a
girl of twenty-one.[4]

[4] Reprinted, by permission of The Macmillan Company, from the
introduction of _Sense and Sensibility_, edited by Edwin L. Miller.

III. Notes, Queries, and Exercises

1. Among the important functions of a newspaper is the task of
announcing the appearance of new books, describing their
contents, and commenting on their merits. The style of such
notices should, above everything else, be clear. Most of them
are unfortunately disfigured by a jargon which repels readers
instead of inducing them to peruse the books reviewed.

2. What information should the heading of a book notice furnish?

3. Model I is an excellent example of what a review in a single
paragraph should be. The first sentence bridges the intellectual
and geographical space between the United States and Argentina,
between the reader and the subject, which is just what an
introduction should do. The second sentence describes the
country in general terms, ending in a clause that leads directly
to the most striking single fact about Argentina, its importance
as an agricultural country. The three sentences that follow give
concrete facts in support of this clause. The final sentence
drives home the point stated in the first.

4. Discuss the meaning and etymology of "dissipate," "Rio Grande,"
"annually," "approximate," "exports," "enterprise."

5. Point out one restrictive and one non-restrictive clause.

6. Describe orally the location and character of the Rio Grande,
Mexico, the Panama Canal, the Atlantic, the Andes, the Tropic of
Capricorn, the British, and the Straits of Magellan.

7. What figure of speech have we in the phrase, "the Amazing
Argentine?"

8. In Model II we have an illustration of a biographical review in
three paragraphs. It pre