ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



305 



Leclerc (C.) — Continued. 



Pans I Maisonueuve Fr^res et Cla. 

 Leclerc, (Iditeurs | 25, quai Voltaire — 

 quai Malaquais, 5 | (Ancienne maison 

 Th. Barrois) | 1885 [-1888-1889.] 



3 parts: printed cover aa above verso con- 

 tents, title as above verso note 1 1. advertise- 

 ment verso blank 1 1. table verso blank 1 1. text 

 pp. 1-153; printed cover differing slightly from 

 above verso contents, title like printed cover 

 verso "note 1 1. text pp. 3-161, contents p. [162]; 

 printed cover, title verso notice 1 1. text pp. 

 3-170, table 1 1 8°. 



Contains titles of a number of American lin- 

 guistic "works, among tbem a few Algonquian. 



Copies seen : Pilling. 



There were issues for 1878 and 1887, also. 

 (Eames.) 



Le Clercq {Pere Chrestien). Nouvelle | 

 relation | de la | Gaspesie, ( qui con- 

 tient 1 Les Mceurs & la Religion des 

 Sau- I vages Gaspesiens Porte-Croix, | 

 adorateurs du Soleil, & d'autres | Peu- 

 ples de TAmerique Septen- | trionale, 

 dite le Canada. | Dedi^e a madame la | 

 Princesse d'Epinoy* | Par le Pere Chres- 

 tien le Clercq, | Missionnaire Recollet 

 de la Province de | Saint Antoine de 

 Pade en Artois, & | Gardien du Convent 

 de Lens. | [Design.] | 



A Paris, | Chez Amable Auroy, rue 

 Saint I Jacques, ^ I'lmage S. Jerdme, 

 attenant | la Fontaine S. Severin. | M. 

 DC. XCI [ 1691]. I Avec privilege du roy. 



Title verso blank 1 1. epitre 12 11. extrait du 

 privilege du Eoy 1 1. text pp. 1-572, 16°. 



Names of the seasons in Gaspesien, p. 158. — 

 "De la langue des Gaspesiens," being general 

 remarks only, pp. 160-164. 



Copies seem Astor, British Museum, Con- 

 gress, Lenox. 



At the end of the Lenox copy is loosely in- 

 serted a "table des chapitres contenus en ce 

 Livre,"in four unnumbered pages. This table 

 is lacking in most other copies. 



At the Field sale, no. 1306, a copy brought $5 ; 

 the Squier copy, no. 653, $11.50. Priced by Le- 

 clerc, 1878, no. 746, 140 fr. The Brinley copy, 

 no. 102, sold for $21 ; the Pinart copy, no. 539, 42 

 fr. ; the Murphy copy, no. 600, $5.75. Priced by 

 Duf0886, 1887, no. 24873, 90 fr. 



Language of the Gaspesians. 



In Historical Magazine, first series, vol. 5, pp. 

 284-285, New T^rk and London, 1861, sm. 4°. 



About thirty words and phrases in the Gas- 

 pesian language, with synonyms in some cases 

 from other ; anguages of the Algonquian family. 



~ — First I Establishment of the Faith | 

 in New France. | By | Father Cliristian 

 Le Clercq, | recollect missionary. | 

 ALG 20 



Le Clercq (C.) — Continued. 

 Now first translated, with notes, | by | 

 John Gilmary Shea. | Vol. I [-II]. | 

 [Seal.] I 

 New York : | John G. Shea. | 1881. 



2 vols. : frontispiece 1 1. title verso copyright 

 1 1. preface verso list of illustrations 1 1. sketch 

 of Father Le Clercq pp. 5-36, fac-simile of title- 

 page of original edition recto blank 1 1. trans- 

 lation of same p. 37, dedication pp. 39-43, pref- 

 ace pp. 44-45, contents pp. 46-48, text pp. 49- 

 410, royal privilege 1 1. ; frontispiece 1 1. title 

 verso copyright 1 1. trannlation of original title 

 verso blank 1 1. list of illustrations verso blank 

 1 1. contents pp. 7-8, text pp. 9-335, index pp. 

 337-354, 1 1. with woodcut on recto verso blank, 

 map and plates, 8°. 



Dr. Shea, in his sketch of Father Le Clercq, 

 gives in vol. 1, p. 19, the Micmac title of Kau- 

 der's catechism, and on a plate opposite p. 16 

 the Lord's prayer in Micmac hieroglyphics (a 

 facsimile of which is given herewith), accom- 

 panied by the following remarks : 



' ' As thesehieroglyphics are still in use among 

 the Micmacs, who write and read them, and a 

 font of type for them has actually been cast 

 at Vienna, in which a prayer-book has been 

 printed in our day, through the exertions of 

 Rev. Charles Kauder [q.v.], a Eedemptorist 

 missionary, who spent some years at Tracadie, 

 it will not be out of place to give Le Clercq's 

 own words : 



" ' The easy method which I found for teach- 

 ing our Gaspesians theirgprayers with certain 

 characters which I have formed, efiectually 

 convinces me that the majority would soon be- 

 come instructed ; for, indeed, I should find no 

 more diflSculty in teaching them to read than 

 to pray to God by my papers, in which each 

 arbitrary letter signifies a particular word, 

 and some even two together. They so readily 

 grasp this kind of reading that they learn in a 

 single day what they would never have been 

 able to retain in a whole week without the aid 

 of these cards, which they call Kignamotinoer 

 or Eateguenne. They preserve these instruct- 

 ive papers so carefully and prize them so highly 

 that they keep them very neatly in little bark 

 cases adorned with wampum, beads, and porcu- 

 pine quills. . . . 



" ' Our Lord inspired me with this method the 

 second year of my mission, when, being greatly 

 embarrassed as to the mode in which I should 

 teach the Indians to pray, I noticed some chiK 

 dren making marks on birch bark with coal, 

 and they pointed to them with their finger at 

 every word of the prayer which they pro- 

 nounced. This made me think that, by giving 

 them some form which would aid their memory 

 by fixed characters, I should advance much 

 more rapidly than by teaching on the plan of 

 making them repeat over and over what I said. 

 I was charmed to know that I was not deceived, 

 and that these characters which I had traced 

 on paper produced all the effect I desired, so 



