ians, Grammarians, Lexicographers,
Logicians, and Philosophers, are likely to consider this
discovery. Other works proposed."

"The members of the press. Bookmaking. The many important
discoveries in this work lie in the way of its immediate success
with such minds as cannot receive new ideas. The view which the
man of enlarged ideas is likely to take of it. The author's
pretensions. His confidence in the ultimate success of this
discovery."

We confess we felt our mouth water at the glimpses thus afforded of
the coming feast; and we are happy to acknowledge that what we
expected was fully realized.

It must not be imagined that we are going to furnish, in these trivial
pages, a full disclosure of Mr Kavanagh's discovery. There are several
reasons for our not doing so. First, we could not, in common justice,
think of spoiling the sale of Mr Kavanagh's book. Secondly, we are not
sanguine that, in the space allowed us, we could make the discovery
understood by our readers. And thirdly, we are not sure that we
understand it ourselves. But, as far as consistent with these
considerations, we shall endeavour to give such a view of it as may
excite, without satiating, curiosity, and may give the means of
conjecturing what the book itself must be, of which we are enabled to
offer such specimens.

It is a common and allowable artifice, in those attempting to lead us
up the hill of science, to point to some attractive object that is to
be reached at the summit. Mr Kavanagh employs this expedient with
great effect. He shows us, near the outset of our journey, one
astonishing result to which it is to conduct us, and which necessarily
inflames our eagerness to get over the ground:--

"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