The passage is the title page of a book titled "Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin" by Otto Jespersen, a professor at the University of Copenhagen. The book was published in 1922 by Henry Holt and Company in New York.The passage is the title page of a book titled "Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin" by Otto Jespersen, a professor at the University of Copenhagen. The book was published in 1922 by Henry Holt and Company in New York.