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CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

CHAPTER I.—THE INVENTORS OF WRITING.
1. Alphabetic and Non-Alphabetic Writing . . . 1 §
2. Ideograms and Phonograms ...... 5 §
3. Classification of the Primitive Systems of Writing . . 13 §
4. The Picture Writing of Savage Tribes . . . . 15 §
5- The Chinese Characters ...... 25 §
6. The Japanese Syllabaries . . . . . . . 33 §
7. The Cuneiform Writing ....... 39 §
8. The Egyptian Hieroglyphics . . . . . . 55
CHAPTER II.—THE ORIGIN OF THE ALPHABET.
1. The Genealogy of the English Alphabet . . . . 70 §
2. The Alphabetic Tradition ...... 82 §
3. The History of de Rouge's Discovery . . . . 88 §
4. The Papyrus Prisse 92 §
5. Identification of the Egyptian Prototypes of the Semitic
Letters 98 §
6. Objections to de Rough's Hypothesis . . . .116 §
7. The Chronological Conditions . . . . . . 132 §
8. The Geographical Probabilities . . . . -147
CHAPTER III.—THE PRIMITIVE LETTERS. §
1. The Characteristics of the Semitic Alphabets . . . 158 §
2. The Names of the Letters . . . . . .166 §
3. Their Phonetic Powers . . . . . . . 175 §
4. The Alphabetic Order 185
CHAPTER IV.—THE PHOENICIAN ALPHABET.
I. The Two Types of the Phoenician Alphabet . . . 197 §
2. The Inscriptions of the First Epoch .... 206 §
3. The Inscriptions of the Second Epoch . . . . 220 §
4. The Punic Alphabet 226 §
5- The Alphabet of Israel ....... 230
CHAPTER V. —THE ARAMEAN ALPHABETS. §
1. Aram 245 §
2. Nineveh and the Satrapies 252 §
3- Egypt 2S9 §
4. Palmyra .......... 263 §
5- Hebrew 268 §
6. Syriac .......... 283 §
7. Mongolian ......... 297 §
8. Arabic 312
CHAPTER VI.—THE SOUTH SEMITIC ALPHABETS. §
1. Affiliation of the South Semitic Alphabets . . . . 335 §
2. The Thamudite Inscriptions of Safa .... 342 §
3. The Himyaritic or Sabean Alphabet 345 §
4. The Ethiopic Alphabet 349