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THE writing of a text-book of agriculture in English for use by a body of students whose knowledge of English is very meagre is surely a most difficult task. This is evidently realized by the author of the present book, for he includes a glossary not only of technical terms but also of words and expressions commonly in use in ordinary English. But if the task of preparing such a text-book must be faced, we have seen no attempt which attains a greater measure of success than that now under consideration. Apart from the language difficulty in the present case, there is another, which is referred to in the author's foreword, namely, that the pupils for whom it is designed look upon the study of agriculture in the schools as a disagreeable necessity, for most of them join the higher schools chiefly for the purpose of gaining a higher social status by getting remunerative employment on the completion of their school courses, and hence are in most cases only interested in those subjects which are required for such paid positions as are available to them.
A Text-Book of Agriculture
Designed for use in East African Schools. By J. G. Brash. Pp. xv + 311. (London: The Sheldon Press, 1939.) 4s. 6d.
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M., H. Agriculture and Forestry. Nature 145, 1003 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/1451003a0
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