The Primary Synopsis of Uaiversology and Ai ate. By S.
P. Andrews. (New York: Dim Thomas.)—We shall frankly confess that we have not read the whole of this voluthe. But we have tried to read not a few paragraphs, and have found very few that we could under- stand. Indeed, we never saw a volume, apparently-written in English, that contained so many utterly baffling words. Now, when one cannot distinguish in the least the outline of a building, and has not the faintest conception of what it is meant for, there is nothing left but to bring a brick as a specimen of it. Here is a brick of " Alwato ":—
" The h-sound denotes breath-like being, spirit, and o denotes presenta- tion; b denotes head-and-trunk (or bulb-and-shalt), and o presentation ; and m denotes muchness and outness, and a (ab) denotes substance. Now, it may require the mental tactus eruditus, and a large and clear over- sight of the whole field of analogy, to derive, with scientific confidence, the meaning man or humanity from the combination of h and o into ho ; or that of body from that of b and o into bo ; or that of mass (or matrix) from that of m and a into ma. It will be better, therefore, practically not to go so far back towards the beginning point of the verbal creation, but to assume or know, after the fact shall have been established by the more occult philosophy, that ho means man, that bo means body, &c. From this point onward and outward, the process of Word- Building becomes simple and delightful."
It is pleasant when one is lost in a wilderness to find some familiar spot. Might we humbly suggest that Thallatosphere, which is, we learn, "a watery Homogenismus," might be more correctly spelt, if indeed it be connected with our old acquaintance thiXarra, with one 1 and two es.
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