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(p. 87) . Vicomte E. de Rougé, Memoire sur l'Origine Égyptienne de l'Alphabet Phénicien , Paris, 1874.

(p. 88). See the various publications of Mr. Arthur Evans.

(p. 89). Aztec and Maya writing. These pictographs are still in the main undecipherable, and opinions differ as to the exact stage of development which they represent.

(p. 90). E. A. Wallace Budge's First Steps in Egyptian, London, 1895, is an excellent elementary work on the Egyptian writing. Professor Erman's Egyptian Grammar, London, 1894, is the work of perhaps the foremost living Egyptologist.

(p. 93). Extant examples of Babylonian and Assyrian writing give opportunity to compare earlier and later systems, so the fact of evolution from the pictorial to the phonetic system rests on something more than mere theory.

(p. 96). Friedrich Delitzsch, Assyrische Lesestucke mit grammatischen Tabellen und vollständdigem Glossar einführung in die assyrische und babylonische Keilschrift-litteratur bis hinauf zu Hammurabi, Leipzig, 1900.

(p. 97). It does not appear that the Babylonians themselves ever gave up the old system of writing, so long as they retained political autonomy.

(p. 101). See Isaac Taylor's History of the Alphabet; an Account of the Origin and Development of Letters, new edition, 2 vols., London, 1899.
For fac-similes of the various scripts, see Henry Smith Williams' History of the Art Of Writing,, 4 vols, New York and London, 1902-1903.