CHAPTER III. AIRS AND GRACES, pp. 171-218

Certain types of humor 171

Elegant variation 175

Inversion 180-193

Exclamatory 181

Balance 182

In syntactic clauses 187

Negative, and false-emphasis 190

Miscellaneous 191

Archaism 193-200

Occasional 193

Sustained 198

Metaphor 200

Repetition 209

Miscellaneous 213-218

Trite phrases 213

Irony 215

Superlatives without _the_ 216

Cheap originality 217