A Concise Grammar of Haitian Kreyol
We are in the process of producing a Chrestomathy of Kreyol folkloric texts, with facing-page English translation, which will draw on the classic compilations of Hyppolite, Mirabeau, Tessoneau and Hall. (Any suggestions as to other sources that should be drawn on are welcome!) The texts will be re-transcribed into modern standard Kreyol spelling.
We publish here, in provisional form, the first thorough grammar of Haitian Kreyol. Those who have struggled with the superficial treatments currently available will instantly appreciate that this is the book which answers the real questions. Because it is a thing needed, we will not delay its publication till the completion of the entire book.
Legends of the Micmacs: reprint of Silas Rand's classic 1894 collection: two 300-plus page volumes of material collected over 40 years as a missionary to the Micmac in Nova Scotia.
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Invisible Books is now assembling the second volume of its Algonquin series! This will consist of the classic monographs of Truman Michelson, Elsie Clews Parsons, J. Dynely Prince, Stansbury Hagar and Frank G. Speck.
It is not our intention to reprint Charles Leland's 1884 The Algonquian Legends of New England which is currently available from Dover Books in a handsome and inexpensive edition.
Also planned is a reprint of Chrestien LeClerq's classic New Relation of Gaspesia, in a bilingual French-English edition.
We are still attempting to acquire the text of W. H. Mechling's 1914 Malecite Tales (Canadian Department of Mines, Geological Survey, Anthropological Series, No. 4, Memoir 49). We shall be very grateful to anyone with access who can xerox a copy of the (not in JSTOR) text for us. Our gratitude will take the form of a complimentary copy of the book in which the reprinted monograph appears.