(Book was from ebay, unread condition) Pasted inside front cover -
This book is a typical text excercise book from the years between the two world wars! It is almost useless in imparting any understanding of the subject. Almost all books on any subject tended to be like this and students often had to battle to make sense of incomprehendible texts. Even with the help of of a tutor it is difficult to see how anyone could follow it. Anyone trying to use it alone would entirely be lost and confused. There is no account of how to use it, no help with following the numbering system, and above all no ANSWERS! Even someone with a school grounding in Latin would have difficulty.
It is a fine example of the dry, pedantic and often unhelpful attitude of the time in the teaching profession where simple facts were often presented in an unnecessarily convoluted way, simply it seems because this was the academic fashion This habit only died out after WWII It has a parallel in the Victorian.habit of giving quite ordinary toys elaborate Greek names, such as the Phenakistoscope!