Neither would there be advantage in cataloguing the two hundred and fifty alphabets which have come into being since prehistoric man scratched his rude pictographs on the faces of cliffs and on fragments of slate or bone. Some fifty of these alphabets have survived, and of these about half are found in India, but, whatever of historical value they may hold, their use is restricted and local. The rest are, in the main, variations of three scripts--Roman, Arabic, and Chinese--and an outlook on the world's course makes it no matter of doubt that it is with the Roman, as the vehicle of culture of the most advancing races of mankind, that there lies the maintenance of supremacy and the extension of its sway. +Aabcdefghijklmnoprſstuvwxyz& aeiou ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYZ a e i ó u | a e i o u ab eb ib ob ub | ba be bi bo bu ac ec ic oc uc | ca ce ci co cu ad ed id od ud | da de di do du In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. _Amen._ OUR Father, which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy Name; thy kingdom come, thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this Day our daily Bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us: And lead us not into Temptation, but deliver us from Evil. _Amen._ HORN BOOK, ONCE THE UNIVERSAL PRIMER (_Now so excessively rare that a good example fetches £20 and upwards_). INDEX Abu Simbel, 206 Acrology, 86, 104, 153, 210, 223 Ægean civilisation, 159, 187-194 Akerblad, 129 Akkadian civilisation, 105 " cuneiform, 100, 170 " religion, 105 Alaskan life, pictograph of, 65, 66 Algerian rock-paintings, 33 Almanack symbols, 102 Alphabet, Abyssinian, 213 " Arabic, 209 " Aramean, 207-8 " Armenian, 211 " birth of the, 124 " Chalcidian, 199, 215, 216 " Coptic, 216 " Corean, 87 " Dravidian, 207 " English, 37, 220-222 " Ethiopic, 213 " Georgian, 211 " Greek, 136, 213 " Hebrew, 136, 151, 208, 213 " Hellenic, 207, 213 " Indian, 213 " Indo-Bactrian, 211, 212 Alphabet, Ionian, 215 " Irish, 218 " Latin, 38, 199, 216, 217 " Mongolian, 208 " Ogam, 225 " Pehlevi, 93, 211 " Phœnician, 188, 194, 196, 207, 213 " Pictograph and, 26 " Runic, 220, 223 " Russian, 215 " Sabæan, 212 " Samaritan, 152 " stages of development of, 38, 39 " Syriac, 208 " variations in English, 220 Amenophis III., 110 America, development of man in, 74 Arabic numerals, 209, 212 Art, prehistoric, 24, 25 Asoka, 211 Assyrian numerals, 210 Australian aborigines, 27 " grave-posts of, 52 " rock-paintings of, 29