198 PUBLISHER'S CIRCULAR. 



the press, the public will have the opportunity to 

 judge of their value. 



248. " The term Universology is liable to objection 

 among the learned, on the ground of its hybridity, 

 but no 'more so than sociology, which has now be- 

 come current. The objection has, we understand, 

 been well considered by Mr. Andrews, and he prefers 

 to incur it rather than to adopt a more classical but 







less popularly intelligible name. The name bestowed 

 on the new language, wrought out from the language 

 itself by its own laws, is Alwato, pronounced Ahl- 

 wah-to. The public will await with interest the 

 further development of these important statements 

 and claims." From the Evening Post. 



249. " NEW YORK POLYTECHNIC. Last evening the 

 usual routine of proceedings at the weekly meetings of 

 this useful institution were varied by the introduction 

 of a subject, which may prove to be something of 

 real importance. Stephen Pearl Andrews made be- 

 fore this body the first formal announcement of the 

 discovery of a new science. He read, from the in- 

 troduction to a forthcoming work, an elaborate state- 

 ment of the domain and nature of the science in 

 question ; and notwithstanding the novelty and 

 strangeness of the claim he presents, it would hardly 

 be possible that a deeper impression should have 

 been made by the exposition of a single evening. It 

 is true, the principles of the science itself were not 

 reached ; but a very clear case was made out to the 



