1 (p. 87). Vicomte E. de Rouge, Memoire sur l'Origine Egyptienne de
l'Alphabet Phinicien, Paris, 1874.
2 (p. 88). See the various publications of Mr. Arthur Evans.
3 (p. 80). 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.
4 (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.
5 (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.
6 (p. 96). Friedrich Delitzsch, Assyrischc Lesestucke mit grammatischen
Tabellen und vollstdndigem Glossar einfiihrung in die assyrische und
babylonische Keilschrift-litteratur bis hinauf zu Hammurabi, Leipzig,
1900.
7 (p. 97). It does not appear that the Babylonians thcmselves ever
gave up the old system of writing, so long as they retained political
autonomy.
8 (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 facsimiles of the various scripts, see Henry Smith Williams' History
of the Art Of Writing, 4 vols, New York and London, 1902-1903.