Includes index

Bibliography: p. 491-497

Evidences of ideography in our written language -- Primitive picture writing -- Picture writing of the North American Indians -- Picture writing of the ancient Mexicans -- Hieroglyphic writing of the South Sea islanders -- Chinese ideographic writing -- Hieroglyphic writing of the ancient Egyptians -- Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform writing -- The hieroglyphic system of writing of the Phoenicians -- Pre-Phoenician syllabaries and Mediterranean script -- The Greek alphabet -- The Roman alphabet -- Writing in the Middle Ages -- European alphabets derived from the Greek -- The age of printing

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