I'll just post this up so it's here when you get around to it. First off, I assume what you are looking at is a Paristocrat Cipher (that is, a Cryptogram with the spaces removed), based on the information. Usually people will use one encryption method, so, if there is a lookup table, it is probably straight lookup (you could, for instance, make your plaintext a vignere and then encode the vignere with a lookup table, but this is uncommon). As you have not mentioned spaces in the glyphs, which would suggest to YOU that it is a cipher, I assume Paristocrat, and would attack from that angle first.
First steps I would do to solve a paristocrat cipher is to run a frequency tally, as mentioned. If you have less than 26 unique characters, I would assign a new CAPITAL letter to each. If more, assign some numbers or keyboard symbols (eg. !,@,#).
With that done, try running the transliterated text through
Decrypto 8.5, Online Cryptoquip and Cryptogram Solver in Paristocrat mode. Go through all the texts that the website provides. Usually the site will
not get the cryptext correct, but may contain some good hints that you can work with. If it's all gibberish there, there may be two issues -- it's not a paristocrat, or it's not English.
To solve a paristocrat by hand, you'd generally start by changing letters to text based on letter frequency. That is, your most common two letters should be E & T. You next four most frequent should be A, O, I and N. Start moving letters around and see if you can make some words happen. Usually I start with most frequent = E, and the second most frequent should be T and, hopefully, I can find the T somewhere two letters before the E, which shows me an H. Work forwards from there. The letter frequencies (in order) for english are ETAOIN SHRDLU CMFGYP (ETAOIN SHRDLU should comprise most of the letters, after which the frequency counts will be too low to worry about matching the rest of the letters based on frequency). I use capital letters for encrypted text and lowercase for solved text. Using search and replace in wordpad (PC) or TextEdit (Mac) makes this pretty easy... just make sure you are respecting letter case in the Find/Replace.
If your cryptext is not English, the tally may help compare against other languages. This site may help for getting your frequencies from your transliteration:
English text analyzer
If your cryptext is not a Paristocrat, this site may help:
Cipher Statistics
If you want to read some fun fiction regarding the Paristocrat, you may enjoy:
Edgar Allen Poe's "The Gold Bug"
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/poe/gold_bug.html
Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure Of The Dancing Men"
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/AdveDanc.shtml
