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Origin of Language and Myths. 2 vols., post 8vo, half calf or half morocco, gilt. Published £1 Is in cloth. 1871. $4.00 CONTENTS.-Proof that speech never comes naturally to man.-How men must have first signified their wants and desires, showing that speech must have been easily acquired.-Our Discovery of Man's first word.-The Naturalness of the foregoing account of the Origin of Language.-How Language happened to fall into three divisions with all people, even unknown to those who first made words.-How it happens that opposite ideas are sometimes expressed alike.-Man's first language of articulate sounds. -Proofs from the admissions of the learned, that all must have emanated from the name first given to the Sun, then worshipped as God, hence the very ancient belief that Language had a divine origin.-The alphabet, how an entire alphabet has been made out of O and I combined, the remaining Vowels-the Consonants, Origin of the Roots of Language.-Use and advantage of knowing that initial vowels may take the aspirate H, identity in meaning with the verb "to be" and the pronoun "I."-Rivers of the Sun, why Rivers styled Rivers of the Sun have been so called, origin of the superstition to which the name has given birth.-The name of the Sun can have no original, an instance of the advantage of this knowledge.-What Max Muller, Grimm, etc., think of the words God and Buddha, an instance of the advantage to be derived from knowing that there is only one letter in an Alphabet.-Max Muller's Etymology of the word Soul, his Etymology of Sea, his Etymology of Sea under its Latin form, Mare. 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ABSTRACT OF CONTENTS.-Register of the Names of all the Passengers from London during One Whole Year, ending Christmas, 1635.-In the Ships Bonaventure, Hopewell, Christian, Planter, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Paul, Eliza and Ann, Encrease, Susan and Ellen, Falcon, Expectation, Ann and Elizabeth, Abigail, Alexander, Plain Joane, Matthew, Speedwell, Thomas and John, Defence, Blessing, Philip, America, Transport, Pied Cow, Love, Alice, Assurance, Primrose, Merchant's Hope, Bachelor, Globe, Safety, George, Thomas, Wiliam and John, David, Truelove, Dorset, John, Amity, Constance, Abraham, Expedition, Friendship.-Passengers by the Commission and Soldiers according to the Statute, Christmas, 1631, to Christmas, 1632.-Entries Relating to America, from the Patent Rolls.-Lists of the Living and Dead in Virginia, February 16, 1623.-Walloons and French Emigrants to Virginia.-Musters of the Inhabitants of Virginia.-Patents Granted to Settlers in Virginia (circa) 1626.-Returns of those who Embarked from Ipswich and Weymouth for New England, 1634 to 1637.-Register of Persons about to pass into Foreign Parts, from March to September, 1637, from Ipswich, in the Ship John and Dorothy; from Yarmouth, in the Ship Rose; from Southampton, in the Ships Virgin [1639] and Bevis [1638].The Summer Islands, 1673 to 1679: Names of the Governor and Council of the Assembly, August, 1673. Account of the Lands belonging to the Summer Islands Company, taken out of Mr. Richard Norwood's Survey Book, made in 1662-63.Monmouth's Rebellion of 1685: Lists of Convicted Rebels sent to the Barbadoes and other Plantations in America. Receipt for too Prisoners to be transported from Taunton, by John Rose, of London, Merchant. Invoice of 68 Men-servants shipped or Board the Jamaica Merchant, they being sold for 10 Years. Receipt for 100 Prisoners on Mr. Nepho's Account [Prisoners in Dorchester Gaol to be transported]. Prisoners in Exeter Gaol to be transported. Prisoners at Wells to be transported. List of the Convicted Rebels on Board the Betty, of London, at the Port of Weymouth. List of 72 Rebels Granted by His Majesty to Gerome Nepho, with the Names of their Masters in Barbadoes. Sír Wm. Booth's Receipt for 100 Prisoners, on Account of James Kendall [Prisoners in Dorchester Gaol to be transported]. Certificate of the Disposal of Capt. Kendall's Rebels. A List of 90 Rebels by the Happy Return, with the Names of their Masters to whom they were disposed. Sir Wm. Booth's List of Prisoners sent to Barbadoes, with the Names of the Towns in Somersetshire and Devonshire from whence they came. A List of 77 Convicted Rebels, imported from Bristol in the John frigate._ _Sir Wm. Booth's Receipt for 100 Prisoners from the Bridewell at Taunton, from Bridgewater Prison at Taunton, and from Exeter. The Sale. of 67 Rebels, delivered by Capt. Charles Gardner, of the Jamaica Merchant.-Tickets Granted to Emigrants from Barbadoes to New England, Carolina, Virginia, New York, Antigua, Jamaica, Newfoundland, and other places, 1678-9.-Barbadoes: Parish Registers, Births and Deaths, Lists of Inhabitants, Landed Proprietors, Servants, &c., 1678-9. This is a very curious and exhaustive collection of authentic original documents, drawn from Her Majesty's State Paper Office. The researches of the late John Camden Hotten among the English State Papers relating to America, as embodied in the work which is now offered to the public, will be found of almost equal interest by English and by American readers. Probably nothing except an impossible series of photographic pictures, presenting to us the men and women who made up England's annual contributions to the New World during the seventeenth century, "in their manner as they went," could give us so much exact truth about the planting of these colonies as we may gather by the light of these dry official descriptive lists. Adventurers seeking the new El Dorado; exiles seeking the New Jerusalem; spendthrifts fleeing from the Fleet and the Marshalsea; political captives doomed to a villainous servitude; paupers ejected by heartless churchwardens; apprentices of both sexes sold by heartless masters beyond the four seas; women from Bridewell shipped to the plantations in exchange for tobacco; helpless children put out of the way by scoundrelly relatives, or stolen by gangs of organized kidnappers. A strange, wonderful company pass through these pages. The genealogical interest of this curious collection is very great indeed. In its way, it may be called an American Roll of Battle Abbey; and if the revelations which it has to make are not always very flattering to the family pride of those who will most often consult it, they may at least console themselves with the reflection that the Roll of Battle Abbey is not exactly the muster-roll of a noble army of saints and apostles. 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