Nevsky lived for a long time in Japan and specialized in linguistics and popular literature. In order to explore the relationship between the language of Taiwan's aborigines and other Asian languages, in 1927 he came to Alishan in Taiwan to do research and compiled these two books.
涅瓦斯基早年長住日本，專研語言學與民間文學，為了探究台灣山胞語言與其他亞洲語言的關係，一九二七年到了台灣阿里山特富野部落做調查，編就這兩本書。