Mr. Galsworthy's more delicate and unemphatic art eludes this danger, at any rate in Strife.

It is surely much better that they should be brought to their natural unemphatic ending, than that they should be either falsified or ignored.

By an "unemphatic ending" I am far from meaning a makeshift ending, an ending carelessly and conventionally huddled up.

An unemphatic ending, as I understand it, is a deliberate anticlimax, an idyllic, or elegiac, or philosophic last act, following upon a penultimate act of very much higher tension.

A good instance of the unemphatic ending is the last act of Sir Arthur Pinero's Letty.

In the works of Mr. Henry Arthur Jones we find several instances of the unemphatic last actsome clearly justified, others much less so.

The grave accent (`) is only written in place of the acute on the last syllable when not before a pause, or when unemphatic.

ἡμεῖς understood, unemphatic.

Discourse itself, it will be observed, has its pauses, seasons of repose thickly interspersed in the action of speech; and besides these has its accented and unaccented syllables, emphatic and unemphatic words,illustrating thus in itself the law which it here affirms.

It may be exemplified in the words oven, shovel, able; or in the unemphatic article the before a consonant, as in the sentence, "Take the nearest:" we do not hear it as "thee nearest," nor as "then carest," but more obscurely.

Except in a question, dost and didst, like do, does, and did, are usually signs of emphasis; and therefore unfit to be substituted for the st, est, or edst, of an unemphatic verb.

To take place, is, to occur somewhere, or anywhere; and the unemphatic word there is but as indefinite in respect to place, as these other adverbs of place, or as the noun itself.

This appears to be right in sense, but because brevity is desirable in unemphatic particles, I suppose most persons would say, "split in two.

A Pleonasm, as perhaps in these instances, is sometimes impressive and elegant; but an unemphatic repetition of the same idea, is one of the worst faults of bad writing.

The breve is properly a mark of short quantity, only when it is set over an unaccented syllable or an unemphatic monosyllable, as it often is in the scanning of verses.

as, mo in harmonious, sole in console, &c. When a monosyllable, which is unemphatic, ends in a vowel, it is always short; but when the emphasis is placed upon it, it is always long.

We find a succession of colourless, unemphatic sentences; we find cold reasoning and exact narrative; we find polite irony and dry wit.

How unemphatic it all is!