"That the reader may have in advance some notion of this manner of analysing words, and discovering their hidden meaning, I beg here to give, for the present, the contents of the analysis of the English alphabet _collectively_ considered; that is, not as to what each letter means when read by itself, but as to what they all mean when read together in the following order:-- A B C D E F G H I (or J) K L M N O P Q R S T U (or V) W X Y Z; of which the literal meaning in modern English is--_This first book is had of the Jews; it opens the mind, and is good breeding and wisdom._ I shall show in the proper place how this meaning may be found in the above characters." The steps by which we are to reach a mighty secret like this, are given by our author in great detail; for, as he candidly observes-- "Though my discoveries are mostly about as evident as any thing in Euclid, still, as they are new to the world, and require, previous to their being received as truths, the disagreeable admission that we have been hitherto in error; some art, besides down-right logical persuasion, will be necessary towards bringing the mind friendly to them." The first discovery Mr Kavanagh seems to have made is, that he knew nothing of grammar; and had he stopped here, he would have been entitled to no small praise for discernment. But this was but a stepping-stone to greater things. Mr Kavanagh seems by and by to have found out that "there are no such words as substantives or nouns; that is to say, words standing for substances, or representing substances in any manner." He discovered that such words, and indeed all words, are, whether it be true or not, sounds to our ears not altogether new. We had a notion that, at least, the term _noun_, _nom_, and _nomen_, meant properly a _name_, but of course Mr Kavanagh must know better. We must decline, however, to follow him through his explanation on this footing of the real presence. But then comes an announcement of undoubted originality, "that all words called substantives are but names _in the fourth degree of comparison_; that is to say, in a degree above the one commonly called the superlative." We durst not doubt that Mr Kavanagh is here right; but, for persons of slow perception like ourselves, we should have liked to see a little more fully explained what are the first, second, and third degrees of comparison of those names, of which _hat_, _stick_, _thing_, _hand_, _foot_, &c., are the fourth degrees. Discoverers should bear a little with beginners; and we suggest that, in a second edition, a full table should be given of what we desiderate.