Turns out somebody has also uploaded (about a month ago) a rather ropy copy of this one to archive.org; while generally poorer quality than the images I used, it did contain the page missing in the Australian copy; I have thus been able to complete the reconstruction of this page in the copy on scribd.
The editors' introduction to this book slightly glosses over why Hinton left Britain before getting the MSS. into a publishable form. In 1886 he was effectively forced into exile for having unconventional domestic arrangements, after failing to convince the English criminal courts that Maude Weldon and Mary Ellen Boole were simply two different intrusions into our three-dimensional universe of a single four-dimensional being.
It is suggested that the cubic-grid climbing frames which you still occasionally see around (where they haven't been torn down on Health and Safety grounds after too many small children getting concussed or losing teeth by banging their heads on the heavy steel pipes of which they're constructed), patented in the 1920s in the USA under the name "Jungle Gym" by one Sebastian Hinton, are based on another of C. H. Hinton's exercises, originally inflicted on his children in the 1880s when he was living in Japan.
Tried earlier today to upload J.E. Erdmann's History of Philosophy as page images but Scribd refused to convert the first two volumes, apparently as being too long.
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