CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
Origin of the Slavi, [1].—Mythology, [4].—Early language and dialects, [6].—Classification, [7].—Eastern Stem, [8].—Western Stem, [11].—Slavic languages, [13].
Part first.
HISTORY OF THE OLD OR CHURCH SLAVIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
Home of the Old Slavic, [26].—Characteristics, [29].—Alphabet, [30].—Cyril and Methodius, [31].—Their translation of the Bible, [34].—Influence of the Old Slavic on the other dialects, [36].—Glagolitic alphabet, [37].—Dodrovsky's theory, [37].—THREE PERIODS, [34].—First Period, [39].—Second Period, [41].—Third Period, [42].—Present state, [45].
Part second.
EASTERN SLAVI.
CHAPTER I.
HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
Origin of the Russians, [47].—Periods, [49].—Language and dialects, [49].—Russian Proper, [49].—Malo-Russian, [50].—White Russian, [51].—FIRST PERIOD, [52].— SECOND PERIOD, [60].—Energy of Peter the Great, [60].—THIRD PERIOD, [65].—Lomonosof, [66].—FOURTH PERIOD, [72].—The emperor Alexander and his influence, [72].—Russian Bible Society, [74].—Karamzin, [76].—FIFTH PERIOD, [85].—The emperor Nicholas and his measures, [85]—Panslavism, [86].—Pushkin, [95]—Works on the Russian language, [101].
CHAPTER II.
HISTORY OF THE ILLYRICO-SERVIAN LANGUAGE.
SECTION I.
Language and Literature of the Illyrico-Servians Proper.
Language written with different alphabets, [103].—Characteristics, [104].—History, [105].
Servians of the Greek Church.
Their extent, [107].—Earlier literature, [108]—Modern writers, [112]—Vuk Stephanovitch, [113].—His collection of popular songs, [114].—His arrangement of the alphabet, [116].—Recent poets, [118].—Montenegro, the Vladika, [119].
Servians of the Romish Church.
GLAGOLITIC LITERATURE, [123].—Manuscripts, Text du Sacre, [124].—Earliest works and writers, [126].
SECULAR LITERATURE, [127].—Dalmatia Proper, [128].—Ragusa and its literature, [128].—Orthography, [131].—Dr. Gaj, [133].—Catholic Slavonians, [133].
SECTION II.
Language and Literature of the CROATIANS, [135].—Relation of the Croats to other Slavi, [135].—Orthography, etc. [136].
SECTION III.
Language and Literature of the VENDES or SLOVENZI, [138].—Their home, [138].—Efforts of Truber, [139].—Orthography, etc. [140].—Literature, [142].
CHAPTER III.
LANGUAGE OF THE BULGARIANS.
Corruptions, [144].—No trace of early literature, [145].—Present state, [146].
Part Third.
WESTERN SLAVI.
CHAPTER I.
CZEKHO-SLOVAKIAN BRANCH.
SECTION I.
History of the Czekhish or Bohemian Language and Literature. Bohemian literature distinguished, [147].—Early history, [149].—Moravians, [151].—Note on pronunciation, [151].—Characteristics of the language, [154].—Periods, [157].—FIRST PERIOD, [157].—SECOND PERIOD, [163].—John Huss and Jerome of Prague, [167].—Their martyrdom, [170].—Consequences, [174].—THIRD PERIOD, [182].—Golden age of Bohemian literature, [183]—Events, [184],—Literary activity, [188].—Desolations of the thirty years' war, [195].—FOURTH PERIOD, [196].—Paralysis of literature, [196].—Emigrants, Comenius, [197].—Slovak writers, [199].—FIFTH PERIOD, [200].—State of the language, [201].—Writers, [202].—Dobrovsky, [203]—Kollar, [206].—Panslavism, [207]—Schaffarik, [207].—Palacky, [209].—Works on the Bohemian language, [211].
SECTION II.
Language and Literature of the Slovaks.
Home of the Slovaks, [212].—Their language, [214].—Earliest traces of a literature, [217].—Understand the Bohemian dialect, [218]— Writers in German, [220].—Grammars, etc. [221].
CHAPTER II.
HISTORY OF THE POLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
Origin of the Lekhes, or Poles, [222].—Periods, [225].—Extent of the Polish language, [225].—Its ancient character, [227].—FIRST PERIOD, [229].—SECOND PERIOD, [231].—THIRD PERIOD, [235].—Rapid progress of literature, [235].—Toleration, [236].—Dissidents, Unitarians, etc. [236].—Culture of the language, [240].—Printing offices and schools, [241].—Degradation of the peasantry,
[241].—Copernicus, [243],—Writers, [244].—FOURTH PERIOD, [250].—Perversion
of taste, [251].—Theological controversy and persecution, [252].—The Jesuits prevail, [253].—Poets, [255]—FIFTH PERIOD, [256].—Revival, French influence, [257].—Political struggles, [258].—Schools and cultivation, [259].—The peasantry were serfs, etc. [260].—Literary activity, [262].—Effect of French influence, [263].—Writers, [264].—Czartoryski, 265.—The family Potocki, [266].—Lelewel, [268]—Niemcewicz, [275].—SIXTH PERIOD, [285].—Causes of the revolution in 1830, [285].—Results upon literature, [286].—Russian efforts to destroy Polish nationality, [287].—Historical researches, [288].—Literature of Polish emigrants, [291].—Lelewel, [292].—Mickiewicz, [293].—Recent poetry, [297]—Works on the Polish language, etc. [298].
CHAPTER III.
LANGUAGES OF THE SORABIAN-VENDES IN LUSATIA, AND OF OTHER. VENDISH TRIBES NOW EXTINCT.
History, [298].—Branches: The Obotrites, [300].—The Wiltzi, or Pomeranians, [302].—The Ukern in Brandenburg, [303].—The Sorabians or Vendes in Lusatia, [304].
1. Vendes in Upper Lusatia.
Language, [308].—Influence of the Reformation, [308].—Two systems of orthography, [310].—Literary efforts, [311].
2. Vendes in Lower Lusatia.
Language, [313].—Literature mostly religious, [313].—Philological works, [314].
Part Fourth.
SKETCH OF THE POPULAR POETRY OF THE SLAVIC NATIONS.
SLAVIC POPULAR POETRY: Difficulties of the subject, [315].—Still flourishes only among Slavic nations, [317].—Its antiquity and prevalence, [318].—Nothing in it of romance, [319].—Different moral standard, [320].—Nothing dramatic, [322].—Sometimes allegorical, [323]—Elegy, [323].—Antithesis, [324].—Standing epithets, [325].—Plastic, [325].—Personifications, [327].—Superstitions, [328].—Jelitza and her Brothers, [329].—Moral characteristics, [332].—Love and heroism, [334].—Hopeless love, [336].—The Farewell, [336].—A mother's and sister's love, [338].
EASTERN SLAVI.
RUSSIAN POPULAR POETRY, [339].—Character and antiquity, [339].—Tenderness, [342].—The Postilion, [343].—Diminutives, [344].—Melancholy, [344].—Hopeless love, [344].—Parting Scene, [346].—The Dove, [347]—The Faithless Lover, [349].—Veneration for the Tzar, [350].—The Boyar's Execution, [350].—The storming of Azof, [353].—Malo-Russian songs, 354.—The Kozaks, [355].—Their history, [356].—Their ballads, [358]—The murder of Yessaul Tshural, [359].—Lament for Yessaul Pushkar, [360]—Song of the Haidamack, [362].—Sir Sava and the Leshes, [363].—The Love-sick Girl, [365].—The Dead Love, [366].
SERVIAN POPULAR POETRY, [366].—Only recently known, [367].—Characteristics, the Guslè, [369].—Cheerfulness, [369].—Roguery, [370].—Passion, [371].—Parting Lovers, [371].—Rendezvous, St. George's Day, [372].—United in Death, [373].—Household Matters, [374].—Heroic poems, [374].—Ravens ill boding, [376].—Subjects, [377].—Rite of brotherhood, [378].—Modern heroic poems, [379].—Vuk Stephanovitch as collector, [381].—Music, the Guslè, [382].—In what parts of the country prevalent, [383].—BULGARIAN Ballads, [383]—The Slave Gangs, [384].
POPULAR POETRY OF THE SLOVENZI, [384].—The Dovelet, [385].
WESTERN SLAVI.
BOHEMIAN POPULAR POETRY, [386].—Ancient Bohemian songs compared with Servian and Russian ballads, [386].—German, influence, [388].—The Forsaken Maiden, [389].—Liberal Pay, [389].—Happy Death, The Lying Bird, [390].—The Dead Love, [391].
SLOVAKIAN Ballads, [392].—The Mother's Curse, [392]—Sun and Moon, [394].
POLISH POPULAR POETRY, [394]—Formerly neglected, [395]—Ancient hymn, [396].—Ballads, characteristics, [396].—Invasion of the Tartars, [397].—Orphan ballads, [399].—Poor Orphan Child, [399].
POPULAR POETRY OF THE VENDES, [400].—Characteristics, [401].—The Orphan's Lament, [401].—Good Advice for Lads, [402].—Dying out, [404].
INDEX OF SLAVIC AUTHORS, [405].
NOTE.
On the Orthography and Pronunciation of Slavic proper names, see the note on p. [151]; also the note under the letter V in the Index.