ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



489 



Trumbull (J. H.) — Continued. 



chusee. The omission of the circumflex accent 

 over the fourth a in tvadtauatonqussuongdsh- 

 nish, in the line below, is also probably a typo- 

 graphical error, but it is a singularly awkward 

 one, since it changes both the gender and the 

 tense of the word. However, these are blem- 

 ishes which cannot have escaped even the most 

 careless reader of The Atlantic. I pass to what 



. seems to me u grave misconception of the origi- 

 nal text. The sixth line, 

 'Kah nishnoh ho wan nootam nehenwonche 

 wuttinnontoowaonk Ivetoohkaan, ' 

 strikes me as being a very inadequate rendering 

 of 



' Thou speakest a different dialect to each.' 

 If, as the translator gives it, 'every one hears 

 his own language when thou [the tree] speak- 

 est, ' there would be no difficulty whatever in un- 

 derstanding that Talking Oak ; anybody might 

 sit down on an exi)Osedroot and have a free and 

 easy powwow with that accomplished old son 

 of the forest. But Mr. Longfellow distinctly 

 states, in the first quatrain of his sonnet, that 

 the 



' Myriad leaves are loud 

 "With sounds of unintellvjible speech.' 



Clearly, J. H. T. is wrong, and has dropped 

 into some unintelligible speech on his own ac- 

 count. 



"In criticising so able a scholar I have al- 

 lowed my interest in the subject to overcome 

 my diffidence. Even Homer sometimes nods, 

 and J. H. T. may easily be forgiven if he does 

 not always get his Massachusee quite right." 



[ ] Catalogue | of the | American Li- 

 brary I of the late | Mr. George Brin- 

 ley, I of Hartford, Conn. | Part I. | 

 America in general | New France Can- 

 ada etc. I the British Colonies to 1776 { 

 New England | [-Part IV. j Psalms and 

 hymns music science and art | [&c. ten 

 lines.] ! 



Hartford | Press of the Case Lock- 

 wood &, Brainard Company | 1878 

 [-1886] 



4 parts, 8°. Compiled by Dr. J. H. Trum- 

 bull. The fifth and last part is said to be in 

 preparation. 



Indian language of New England, part 1, pp. 

 102-107, contains titles and descriptions of 

 works printed at Cambridge and Boston pre- 

 vious to 1720.— Indian languages: general trea- 

 tises, and collections, part 3, pp. 123-124 ; Algon- 

 kin, pp. 126-134. 



Copies seen : Eames, Pilling. 



Oregon. The origin and meaning of 



the name. 



In Magazine of American History, vol. 3, pp. 

 36-38, New York, 1879. sm. 4°. 



The Indian tongue and its literature 



as fashioned by Eliot and others. By 



Trumbull (J. H. ) — Continued. 



the Hon. J. Hammond Trumbull, LL. 

 D. President of the Connecticut His- 

 torical Society. 



In Winsor (J.), Memorial history of Boston, 

 vol. 1, pp. 465-480, Boston, 1880, 4°. 



Contains descriptions of a number of the 

 early printed books iu the Massachusetts In- 

 dian language, and includes a number of fac- 

 similes. Extracts are also given of a number 

 of manuscript inscriptions in the Indian lan- 

 guage, found in diff^erent copies of Eliot's trans- 

 lation of the bible, 



[Algonquian names of various dis- 

 eases.] 



In Grreen (S. A.), History of medicine in 

 Massachusetts, pp. 129-130, Boston, 1881, 8°. 



Indian names | of places etc., in and 



on the borders of | Connecticut: | with 

 interpretations of some of them. | By J. 

 Hanmiond Trumbull. | 



Hartford : | 1881. 



Title verso note and printers 1 1. introduction 

 pp. iii-xi, explanation of abbreviations p. [xii], 

 text alphabetically arranged by Indian words 

 pp. 1-93, 8°. 250 copies printed. 



Copies seen : Brinton, British Museum, 

 Eames, Powell, Pilling. 



Clarke & co. 1886, no. 6783, priced a copy $2.50. 



The New England primer and its 



predecessors. By J. Hammond Trum- 

 bull, LL. D. 



In The Sunday School Times, vol. 24, nos. 17- 

 18, pp. 259-260, 275-277, Philadelphia, April 29 

 and May 6, 1882, folio. (American Antiquarian 

 Society, Eames.) 



In the second of these articles Mr. Trumbull 

 gives an account and description of Eliot's 

 Indian primer of 1669. 



Meaning and derivation of the 



original name of the town of Groton. 



In G-reen (S. A.), Groton during the Indian 

 wars, pp. 189-190, Groton, 1883, 8°. 



[Indian names of places in Rhode 



Island.] 



In Rhode Island State census, 1885, pp. 21, 

 52, 53, 63, 65, Providence, 1887, 8°. 



Most of these names are accompanied by the 

 English significations and by etymologies. 



[Letter from Dr. Trumbull on the 



derivation of the Indian name of the 

 town of " Groton ".] 



In Green (S. A.), Groton Historical Series, 

 no. XX, Two chapters in the early history of 

 Groton, addenda and corrigenda, p. 8, Groton, 

 1887, 8°. 



On p. 9 of the same work is a note by Dr. 

 Trumbull on the derivation of the Indian name 

 of the town of Lancaster, reprinted from the 

 Connecticut Hist See. Coll. vol. 2. 



