XVIII NOETH AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. 
Brasseur de Bourbourg (Abbe Charles liltienne) — continued. 
are little known to bibliographers ; more than sixty grammars, vocabularies, pro- 
fane and religious treatises, iu print, some of which have never been catalogued 
and of which I possess the only copies, others which are yet known only by vague 
indications — there, in few words, is what my library presents, concerning American 
philology." — Preface. 
Brinley (George). Oatalogue | of the | American Library | of the late | 
Mr. George Brinley, | of Hartford, Conn, | Part I. | America in gene- 
ral I New France Canada etc. | the British Colonies to 1776 | New 
England [-Part III. | The South and the West | the United States | 
general and political history | military and naval history | biogra- 
phy I Mexico the West Indies | Central and South America | the 
American Indians | bibles catechisms and primers | music and psal- 
mody] I 
Hartford | Press of the Case Lockwood & Brainard Company | 
1878 [-1881] t JCP. 
3 parts. 8° Compiled by Dr. J. H. Trumbull. In the Preface to Part III, dated 
March 1, 1881, it is stated : "The general arrangement of the Fourth (and last) 
Part is completed, and a portion of the copy is already in the hands of the printers." 
It has not been published at this writing (Januarj, 1885). 
"The Catalogue of the First Part of this collection is now submitted to the pub- 
lic. Few of those into whose hands it is likely to fall need be informed that, within 
the field it covers, it comprises a greater number of volumes remarkable for their 
rarity, value, and interest to special collectors and to book-lovers in general, than 
were ever before brought together in an American sale-room. The titles of the 
books aud tracts, though rarely given without abbreviation, will be found suffi- 
ciently full to distinguish the edition or impression, and accuracy of description as 
regards binding and general condition has been aimed at throughout. * * • 
"The general plan of the catalogue is indicated, as regards the first part, by the 
table of contents prefixed. The arrangement — it can hardly be called a classifica- 
tion — is substantially that which was adopted by Mr. Brinley himself for his book- 
shelves. A strictly alphabetical arrangement, by author's names or titles, would 
perhaps have been more acceptable to bibliographers, but the extent of the library 
rendered such an arrangement impracticable, aud it seemed inappropriate to the 
sale-catalogue of a library which is not less remarkable for the completeness of its 
collections in special departments than by the number of its titles." — Preface. 
Brinton {Dr. Daniel Garrison). Aboriginal | American Authors | and 
their productions; | especially those in the native languages, j A 
Chapter iu the History of Literature. | By | Daniel G. Brinton, A. M., 
M. D., I Member of [&c., six lines, device, one line]. | 
Philadelphia: | No. 115 South Seventh Street. | 1883. | jcp. 
Title, reverse blank, 1 1.; preface, reverse blank, 1 1.; pp. vii-viii, 9-63. 8°. 
A Notice of some Manuscripts in Central American Languages; 
by Daniel G. Brinton, A. M., M. D. 
In Am. Jour, of Science and Arts, vol. 47, second series, pp. 222-230. New Haven, 
1869. 8". Reprinted iu Hist. Mag., vol. 5, second series, pp. 306-309. Morrisania, 
1869. sm. 4°. 
An account of some manuscripts iu the library of the American Philosophical 
Society at Philadelphia, presented by Mariano Galvez, Governor of Guatemala, in 
1836, which seem to have escaped the notice of scholars. 
