68.—The Gospel of St. Matthew. Shawanoe Baptist Mission, Ind. Ter. J.
Meeker, printer. A. D. 1836. 1 vol. 18mo. p. 64, with 16 pages of hymns
added, by Johnston Lykins.
This translation has been compared with the Greek text, by J. A. Chute,
M. D.
69.—Shawnee Speller and Reader. Siwinowe Eawekitake. By Johnston
Lykins. Shawanoe Mission. J. Meeker, printer. A. D. 1834. 1 vol. 18mo.
54 pages.
This is executed in the Meekerian system of notation. “The consonants
are not pronounced _aloud_, but have precisely the same sound as in
reading English.”—_Editor._ The word “Siwinowe,” the equivalent for
“Shawanoe,” may serve as an example of the two systems. It has not
perhaps, occurred to the author, that when the new system has been
learned by the pupils, there will be no other books to be read in it,
except those which he or others may publish, in accordance with this
very artificial and unpronounceable key; and that to the learner, the
whole body of English instruction, science and learning must be a dead
letter.
70.—Pratt’s edition of the preceding. A. D. 1838. 24 pages.
This is a summary or condensed form of Mr. Lykins’ First Spelling Book.
Both are printed in the consonantal system.