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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Le Jeune (J. M. R.) — Continued. 



In a few numbers the article on Sa<^rcd Tlis- 

 tory ia omitted. Of theso no. 17 contains in lieu 

 four pages of hymns set to miisic ; no. 18, niglit 

 prayer in Shushwap; in no. 22 nothing was 

 substituted; no. 24, list of subscribers, etc. 



In explanation of these ii-regularities Fatlier 

 Le Jeune, under date of July 13, 1892, writes 

 me as follows : 



"Concerning your remarks on missing pages 

 and numbers, let mo say: There are only 4 

 pages of no. 19, pp. 25-28; it was a mistake; no. 

 18 is Aj). 3 and no. 20, which sliould have been 

 no. 19, is Ap. 10. It was too late to correct the 

 error, so I continued counting from no. 20 

 upward. In the same way you will find no. 21, 

 'Sacred History,' § 64-70, pages 33-36, is the 

 same date as no. 22, Ap. 24. The list of sub- 

 scribers can go in no. 24 as pages 97-100, and 

 my French letter of Ap. 1st as pages 101-104. 



"I am ashamed that there should be so 

 much confusion in the pagination of the little 

 paper; as you see, I was trying to carry out 

 two things at the same time — first to make the 

 regular pages with the calendar of the week 

 and second the four pages of Sacred History. 

 These were not issued at the same time, but in 

 two series, as I wished to have the Sacred His- 

 tory bound separately. Then I am not sitting 

 at rest in an office, but traveling throughout 

 my mission, over 500 miles, taking my dupli- 

 cating oiittit with me, with much besides to 

 do, as, for instance, 300 confessions to hear at 

 Kamloops at Easter, 400 last mouth at the 

 Shusliwap, etc. 



"Tou will see that witli July I began the 

 second volume, and hereafter the pages, four 

 to each number, will be numbered in succes- 

 sion. The Sacred History will be given 

 monthly only — 16 pages to each number. I 

 commeneo again from the very beginning, 

 having F.ather St. Onge's translation." 



Most of the matter given is of a religious 

 charai-ter, the .Sacred History series of articles 

 being the most extensive. Beginning with no. 

 13, each issue contains a list of the feast and 

 fast days for the ensuing week, and with no. 15 

 the gospels of the various Sundays are given. 



A Chinook vocabulary appears in the first 

 three numbers, and a list of phrases in the 

 fourth. 



During October, 1892, 1 received from Father 

 Le Jeune copies of a reissue of nos. 1-8 of the 

 Waiva. paged 1-40, all in 16', and containing for 

 the most part the material given in the origi- 

 nals. They are dated May, Juno, July, 

 August, September, Xovember, and December, 

 1892, and January, 1893. four pages each, con- 

 secutively paged. To these is added a sup- 

 plemental signature, paged 33-40, headed 

 "Success of the Duployan Shorthand among 

 the natives of British Columbia." 



There have also been issued two " Supple- 

 ments to the Kamloops Wawa" "Chicago 

 World's Fair Notes," numbered 1 and 2, and 

 dated respectively November 1 and 8, 1892, each 



Le Jeune (.J. M. R.) — Continued. 



containing four pages, numbered 1-8. The lirst 

 contains an illustration of a U. S. coast line 

 battle ship, the second one of the Manufactures 

 and Liberal Arts Building. 



There is also a third of these extras, a single 

 quarto page headed : " Chicago News, Supple- 

 ment to the Kamloops Wawa. No. 1, Nov. Isl, 

 1892," at the top of which is tlie picture of the 

 battle shiji. 



My inquiries in regard to these stray issues 

 met with the following response from Father 

 Le Jeune : 



"In answer to your letter of Nov. 1, 1892, 

 pages 1-40 you mention are simply a new edi- 

 tion of the first eight numbers. As you see by 

 the first numbers I sent you, I did not exactly 

 know what my little paper was going to be. 

 Nowthat the Indianswant their papers bound, 

 I find those first numbers exhausted. Besides, 

 numbers 5, 6, 7, and 8 were never properly num- 

 bered; so I made this new edition of eight 

 numbers to be used as heading for the volume. 

 I endeavored to get into these eight numbers 

 what constitutes the first text-book for Indian 

 students, so that they can be used separately. 

 Now the collection follows in consecutive num- 

 bers, 1, 2, 3, etc., to 18, no. 19 [except the sacred 

 history supplement] being skipped by mistake ; 

 then 20-31, supplements to nos. 15-32, save no. 

 22, omitted also by mistake; then from no. 32 on 

 in regular order. I reprint some of the run-out 

 numbers of vol. I to complete the sets sent mo 

 for binding, and redress as much as I can my 

 former incorrectness of pagination. Concern- 

 ing the pages " Success of the Duployan, " etc., 

 I have given up the idea of embodying them 

 into something else; so they remain as they 

 are, a letter of information to correspondents. 

 The " ChicagoNews ' ' supplement and any other 

 I may hereafter produce are separate pages 

 which I shall issue at my convenience to inter- 

 est the Indians .and give them some useful 

 information, but without binding myself to 

 issue them regularly. They are rather essays 

 than anything else." 



The supplemental signature of no. 8 of the 

 reissue of the Wawa contains so many interest- 

 ing facts bearing upon Father Le Jeune's work 

 and upon the methods used in this new depart- 

 ure in periodical making that I give it here- 

 witli in full. 



Success of the Duployan Shorthand among the 

 natives of British Columbia. 



" Tlie Duployan system of stenography made 

 its apparition in France in 1867. The 

 orginators are the Duploye brotliers, two of 

 whom are members of the clergy and two 

 others eminent stenographers in Paris. Father 

 Le Jeune became acquainted with the system 

 in 1871, being then 16 years old, and learned in 

 a few hours. Two or three days after he 

 ■wTote to Mr. E. Duploye and by return mall 

 received a very encouraging letter. Ho found 

 the knowledge of shorthand very profitabl«^ 



