The Beginnings of Writing

"The Anthropological Series" provides an interesting treatise by Dr. Walter James Hoffman on ""The Beginnings of Writing."s The volume is copiously illustrated with more than 100 representations of specimens of ideograms and phonograms culled from all countries and ages. The results of the author's own researches and investigations among the aboriginal tribes of North America are especially valuable in the light which they throw on the origin and growth of picture writing among a primitive ...