ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



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Blbliotheca americana. See Bartlett 



(J.R.) 



Bibliotheca americana. See Leclerc ( C . ) 



Biblioth^que Rationale : These words following a 

 title or within parentheses after a note indicate 

 that a copy of the work has been seen by the 

 compiler in the National Library, Paris, France. 



Biedermann (Woldeniar, Freilierr von). 

 Zur vergleiclienden Geschichte der 

 poetischen Formen. (*) 



In Zeitschrift fiir Vergleichen de Litteratur- 

 geschichte und Renaissance-Litteratur, neue 

 Folge, vol. 1, pp. 415-440, Berlin, 1889, 8". 



Shawnee sacrificial song, p. 422. 



Title from Prof. A. F. Chamberlain, Toronto. 



Bigcanoe (C/tie/ Charles) and others. [A 

 letter in the Ojibway language.] 



In The Indian, vol. 1 (no. 4), p. 44, Hagers- 

 ville, Ont. March 3, 1886, 4°. 



Addressed to the editor and signed " Chief 

 Chas. Bigcanoe, Jas. Ashquabe, Xoah Snake, 

 Geo. McCue, Sr." 



Biglow (William). History | of | the 

 town of Natick, Mass. | from the days 

 of I the apostolic Eliot, | mdcl, | to the 

 present time, | mdcccxxx | By William 

 Biglow. I 



Boston: | published by Marsh, Capen, 

 & Lyon. I M DCCC XXX [1830]. 



Title verso advertisement 1 1. text pp. 3-87, 

 errata 1 p. 8°. Some copies contain a map. 



Extracts from the town records, 1713-1716, in 

 the Katick language, pp. 26-27.— Title-page of 

 Eliot's bible and Lord's prayer in the Ifatick 

 language, with interlinear English translation, 

 pp. 48-50. 



Copies seen : Astor, Boston Athenaeum, Brit- 

 ish Museum, Congress, Eames, Trumbull. 



Bigot {Pere Vincent) Scripta Ri F^ Vin- 

 centii ] Bigot Ubanakkaorum | in Deo 

 Patris et Pastoris. 



Manuscript, in the Abnaki language, in the 

 library of the archbishopric of Quebec. It 

 consists of ten parts of about 30 11. each, bound 

 together in deer-skin, the last or tenth part 

 being bound as the first in the volume. It con- 

 tains prayers in Abnaki on the rectos, the 

 opposite v.ersos containing a French transla- 

 tion. These prayers are the acts of adoration 

 and faith, the mystery of the trinity, the incar- 

 nation, acts of hope, love, contrition, etc. which 

 extend to p. 10. Pp. 11-38 are occupied with a 

 paraphrase of certain passages of the new 

 testament. 



The manuscript has, in the first eight parts, 

 & dual pagination. The author seems to have 

 written (at first, on the rectos only) his conver- 

 sation on divers passages of the new testa- 

 ment, from the conception of the Holy Virgin, 

 p. 1, to p. 196, where ends the development of the 

 last subject, announced at p. 187 in these terms : 



Bigot (V. ) — Continued. 



' ' La vie de la Ste. Vierge, apr^s I'ascension de 

 son fils, sa mort, les actions de la mort des 

 apotres, apr^s la mesme ascension de J^sus." 

 This page, 196, which is the last of the eighth 

 part, ends with "A. M. D. et B.V. M. G. Sep- 

 timo Januarii 1686." 



A second pagination commences on the verso 

 facing the first leaf of the regular pagination 

 with the number 175, and with the following 

 title: "Suite du Me™* disco urs de Jesu cruci- 

 fixo." The matter which preceded this "suite" 

 is lacking in the manuscript. The eight parts 

 contain instructions on the new testament and 

 on a few of the more remarkable points of the 

 old. 



Thelast part of the volume, which is the ninth, 

 treats of particular subjects, and bears a special 

 pagination from 1 to 23, besides 3 blank leaves 

 at the end. Instruction sur la confession, pp. 

 1-6. — Instruction sur la communion, p. 7. — 

 Methode pour entendre les confessions, pp. 7-23. 

 The Abnaki text is on the recto of these leaves; 

 on the verso, facing, is found a translation, 

 sometimes Latin, sometimes French; it is 

 broken off at the 14th leaf. The versos of the 

 leaves following are blank. 



Bill. 50th Congress, [ 1st Session. | S. 

 2523. ! [Four lines.] | 4 bill | To ratify 

 and confirm an agreement with the 

 Chippewa Indians of | the White Earth, 

 Leech Lake, Cass Lake, Lake Winne- 

 bagosh- I ish, and White Oak Point 

 Reservations, and the Gull Kiver | band, 

 I in the State of Minnesota. 



[Washington, D. C. Government 

 printing office. 1888.] 



No title-page, heading as above; text pp. 

 1-29, large 8°. 



Signatures of chiefs and headmen of the 

 above-named bands of Chippewas, pp. 12-28. 



Copies seen : Pilling, Powell. 



Bill. 50th Congress, | 1st Session. \ H. E. 

 1956. 1 [Nine lines. ] | A bill | To ratify 

 and confirm an agreement with the Gros 

 Ventres, Piegan, | Blood, Blackfeet, and 

 River Crow Indians in Montana. 



[Washington, D. C. Government 

 printing office. 1888.] 



No title-page, heading as above; text pp. 

 1-42, 1 1. large 8°. 



Names, with English equivalents, of the 

 chiefs, headmen, and principal men of the 

 above peoples ; the Piegan, Blood, and Blackfeet 

 occur on pp. 34-41. 



Copies seen : Bureau of Ethnology, Pilling, 

 Powell. 



Also printed with the necessary changes in 

 heading, and with a section added on p. 42, 

 as "50th Congress, 1st Session, S. 1824. (Pilling, 

 Powell.) Also printed as "H. K. 1956. In the 

 Senate of the United States, March 12, 1888. " * 



