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I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy Maharam, and it was a perfectly sound contribution to abstract measure theory. The domains of the underlying measures were not sets but elements of more general Boolean algebras, and their range consisted not of positive numbers but of certain abstract equivalence classes. My proposed first sentence was: "The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces."
I Want to Be a Mathematician, Washington: MAA Spectrum, 1985, p. 120.
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Leonhard Euler's Algebra
This is the title page of the French edition of the Algebra of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783). The text was originally published in German in 1767 in St. Petersburg and then translated into French in 1795. An English version appeared in 1840 and was reprinted in 1984 by Springer-Verlag.