More Was Lost Author:Eleanor Perenyi Fans of Eleanor Perenyi's classic "Green Thoughts", a wonderful little gem on gardening, will be thrilled with the rediscovery and re-release of "More Was Lost", a sensitively told story of the author's marriage in 1937 to a young and liberal Hungarian baron. The book is lucid, crisp, and unpretentious in describing life on the baron's Ruthenian... more » estate, the coming of the war, and her return to the United States, where her son was born. The people she came to know and love were relics of a bygone age and doomed to extinction, but their lives were colorful while they lasted. There were Cousin Laci, a true patriarch with a domineering will, Gyorffy, an old tutor, now the efficient steward of the remains of the estate, and Bottka, the giant, always hunting on friends' estates, always in debt. Through her informal and conversational style, Eleanor Perenyi's personal account yields much that history omits. ""More Was Lost" reads more delightfully than fiction. Perceptive, sensitive, the book is full of anecdotes, glimpses of semi-fuedal life and vignettes of the friends and relatives with whom the Perenyis passed their days." "New York Times" 12 b&w.