Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters (2nd rev.ed. London, 1863)

1. Preface; 2. Use of Symbols; 3. I. Introduction to Lepsius's 'Standard Alphabet'; 4. Portrait of Carl Richard Lepsius; 5. Introductory; 6. 1.0 Carl Richard Lepsius, 1810-1884; 7. 2.0 Universal alphabets; 8. 2.1 The problems of devising a universal alphabet; 9. 2.2 Early attempts to provide a universal alphabet; 10. 2.3 Devices for supplementing the roman alphabet; 11. 2.4 The 18th century; 12. 2.5 Oriental Scripts; 13. 2.6 The Volney prize and Schleiermacher; 14. 2.7 Alphabets for unwritten languages; 15. 2.8 Lepsius and the Alphabetical Conference of 1854; 16. 2.9 The publication of Lepsius's Standard Alphabet; 17. 2.10 Phonetic scripts in Britain; 18. 2.11 Phonetic scripts in America: S.S. Haldeman; 19. 2.12 Phonetic scripts in Germany; 20. 2.13 Summary of the characteristics of the schemes described; 21. 3.0 Lepsius's Standard Alphabet; 22. 3.1 General principles of description; 23. 3.2 The vowels; 24. 3.3 The consonants; 25. 3.4 Notation; 26. 3.5 The description of languages in Part II; 27. 3.6 Lepsius's classification of languages; 28. 4.0 Universal Alphabets after Lepsius; 29. 5.0 Conclusion; 30. Bibliography; 31. Richard Lepsius: List of publications; 32. II. Richard Lepsius: Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters; 33. Advertisement to the First Edition; 34. Advertisement to the Second Edition; 35. Contents; 36. Introduction to the Second Edition; 37. First Part; 38. Second Part; 39. Index of Subjects; 40. Index of Persons; 41. Index of Languages