Not Under Forty is the last book published in Cather\'s lifetime (1873-1947).
It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives h.
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there -- that, one might say, is created.
It is a collection of six essays that critique various writers and the craft of writing in general.
Not Under Forty is the last book published in Cather\'s lifetime (1873-1947)