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].