Note 43 — Chapter II
Reading edition
The book, a thin folio, is favourably spoken of. Unfortunately it does not enter into the scholarship of a very difficult language, and thus only half teaches the learner. As might be expected from the ser studiorum, there are grotesquenesses of style and orthography. Why, for instance, should we read, in ‘Compound Consonants,’ that dż is sounded like the English j in jug? Has the English j hurt Mr. Bowen’s feelings, that he thus unceremoniously cuts it? and why trouble ṡ with a diacritical dot when sh does quite as well?