INTRODUCTION. 



In the compilatiou of this catalogue the aim has been to include everything, printed 

 or in manuscript, relating to the Algonquian languages — books, pamphlets, articles 

 in magazines, tracts, serials, etc., and such reviews and announcements of publica- 

 tions as seemed worthy of notice. 



The dictionary plan has been followed to its extreme limit, the subject and tribal 

 indexes, references to libraries, etc., being included in one alphabetic series. The 

 primary arrangement is alphabetic by authors, translators of works into the native 

 languages being treated as authors. Under each author the arrangement is, first, by 

 printed works, and, second, by manuscripts, each group being given chronologically; 

 and in the case of printed books each work is followed through its various editions 

 before the next in chronologic order is taken up. 



Anonymously printed works are entered under the name of the author when known, 

 and under the first word of the title, not an article or preposition, when not known. 

 A cross-reference is given from the first words of anonymous titles when entered under 

 an author, and from the first words of all titles in the Indian languages, whether 

 anonymous or not. Manuscripts are entered under the author when known, under 

 the dialect to which they refer when the author is not known. 



Each author's name, with his title, etc., is entered in full but once, i. e., in its 

 alphabetic order. Every other mention of him is by surname and initials only, except 

 in those rare cases when two persons of the same surname have also the same initials. 



All titular matter, including cross-references thereto, is in brevier, all collations, 

 descriptions, notes, and index matter in nonpareil. 



In detailing contents and in adding notes respecting contents, the spelling of proper 

 names used in the particular work itself has been followed, and so far as possible the 

 language of the respective writers is given. In the index entries of tribal names the 

 compiler has adopted that spelling which seemed to him the best. 



As a general rule initial capitals have been used in titular matter in only two cases: 

 first, for proper names, and, second, when the word actually appears on the title- 

 page with an initial capital and with the remainder in small capitals or lower-case 

 letters. In giving titles in the German language the capitals in the case of all sub- 

 stantives have been respected. 



When titles are given of works not seen by the compiler tho fact is stated, or the 

 entry is followed by an asterisk within curves, and in either case the authority is 

 usually given. 



The material contained in the ''Addenda" has been entered in the chronologic 

 index at the end of the work, but is not included in the tribal and subject indexes 

 throughout the volume. 



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