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].