Pars, Arthus Bertrand, 1857-59. 4 vols. Belgian ethnographer and Roman Catholic priest, Father Brasseur spent much of his life as a missionary in Mexico and Central America. Histoire is the first of several works on that area's people and language.
Several sections give general comments on languages of Mexico.
In it Aubin demonstrates how Mexican pictographs were used not only to represent objects, but also to stand for the syllables forming a word. Histoire paved the way for Brasseur's announcement in 1863 of his own discovery of a key to the Mexican hieroglyphs. Unfortunately, his attempts at decipherment were failures, and his hieroglyphic key is of questionable value. At the University Press, 1959. Written primarily for the layman, Chadwick here presents an account of the decipherment of the famous tablet found at Knossos in Crete and Pylos in Greece.