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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Mason {-Mrs. Sophia). [One line sylla- 

 bic characters. ] I Watts's first catechism 

 I for I children, | the lord's prayer, the 

 apostles' creed, | and } the ten com- 

 mandments. I Translated by Mrs. Ma- 

 son I into the language of the | Cree In- 

 dians of Rupert's laud, | north-west 

 America. | 



May 7th, 1859. | 38, Craven Street, 

 Strand [London]. 



Title verso printer 1 1. text (entirely in the 

 Cree language, syllabic characters) pp. 3-8, 8°. 



Copies seen: Church Missionary Society, 

 Eames, Pilling. 



[One line syllabic characters.] | A | 



first catechism | of | Christian Knowl- 

 edge, ( the lord's prayer, the apostles' 

 €reed, | and | the ten commandments. | 

 For the | Cree Indians of Rupert's land,| 

 north-west America. | By Mrs. Mason. | 



London : | printed for the | Society 

 for promoting christian knowledge, | 

 Great Queen St., Lincoln's-Inn Fields. 

 J 1875. 



Title verso printer 1 1. text (entirely in the 

 Cree language, syllabic characters, except a few 

 headings in English) pp. 3-14, 18°. 



Catechism, pp. 3-8. — Grace before meat, pp. 8- 

 9.— Grace after meat, p. 9. — The lord's prayer, p. 

 10.— The creed, pp. 10-11. — The ten command- 

 ments, pp. 12-14. 



Copies seen : Eames, Pilling. 



Mason (Bev. William). [The gospel ac- 

 cording to St. John, in the Cree lan- 

 guage of Hudson's bay. Translated by 

 the rev. William Mason, Rossville, 

 Norway house. 

 Rossville missiou press. 1851.] 

 ]Sro title-page ; text in syllabic characters 54 

 unnumbered 11. 8°. A rough print, evidently 

 struck off at the mission press, and probably 

 prepared as " copy " for an edition to be printed 

 by the British and Foreign Bible Society, 

 though I know of no edition of this gospel 

 published near the date given on the fly-leaf, 

 which contains a manuscript note signed 

 "ElijahHoole" and dated at London, 23 ITov. 

 1852, which says "this book was executed 1851, 

 by the Rev. "W. Mason." The first page has seven 

 verses of the gospel and a portion of the eighth. 

 Copies seen: British and Foreign Bible So- 

 ciety. 



Gospel of St. John in the Cree lan- 

 guage, translated by the Wesley an Mis- 

 sionaries. 

 York Factory,Hud8on'8 Bay,1852. (*) 

 8°. Title from Bullen's catalogue of the 

 library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 

 p. 162, London, 1857. Perhaps this refers to the 

 edition titled next above. 



Mason (W.)— Continued. 



" In 1854, the British and Foreigu Bible So 

 ciety undertook an edition of the Gospel of St. 

 John in the syllabic character (a specimen of 

 which is given above), prepared by the Eev. J. 

 [sic] Mason, one of the missionaries connected 

 with the Church Missionary Society. Mr. Ma- 

 son has prepared a Cree version of the Psalms, 

 both in the syllabic and the Roman character." — 

 Bagster's "Bible of Every Land,'' 1860, p. 450. 



[The gospel of John, translated into 



the Cree language by the rev. William 

 Mason. 



York factory, 1856.] 



No title-page ; text in syllabic characters 53 

 unumbered 11. 8°. Roughly printed at the 

 mission press as "copy." A manuscript note 

 on the first leaf says : " To be printed in Eng- 

 land. A dot to be placed over the broad charac- 

 ters to denote the long vowel sound. "W. Mason, 

 Hudson's Bay York Factory, Sept. 11th 1856." 



The first page contains ten verses. 



Copies seen: British and Foreign Bible So- 

 ciety. 



[Gospel of Saint John in the Cree 



language ; translated by the rev. Wm. 

 Mason.] 



Colophon: Rossville mission press. | 

 1857. 



No title-page; text in syllabic characters 

 pp. 1-75, 8°. Though printed apparently from 

 the same type as the impression of 1851, noted 

 above, it is an entirely distinct work, the two 

 agreeing in no particular in the page matter. 

 The colophon is printed in Roman letters. 



Copies seen: British and Foreign Bible So- 

 ciety. 

 [Epistles in the Cree language, trans- 

 lated by the rev. William Mason.] 



Colophon : Rossville mission press. [ 

 1857. 



No title-page ; text in syllabic characters pp. 

 1-40, 8°, Roughly printed at the mission press, 

 probably as "copy" for the use of the British 

 and Foreign Bible Society, which society issued 

 the bible in 1861-'62 in these characters. 



Paul to the Ephesians, pp. 1-14. — General 

 epistle of James, pp. 14-24.— Second epistle gen- 

 eral of Peter, pp. 24-30.— First epistle general 

 of John, pp. 31-40. 



Copies seen: British and Foreign Bible Society. 



A collection | of | psalms, and hymns. 



I Translated into the language | of the 

 I York Indians | of the diocese of Ru- 

 pert's land, I North-west America. | 

 By the | rev. W. Mason. | 



London: | Society for promoting 

 christian | knowledge, | 77, Great 

 Queen-street, Lincoln's inn fields; | 4, 

 Royal exchange; and | 16, Hanover 

 street, Hanover square. | 1859. 



