I may venture to commend this volume to the good will and kind forbearance of the reader, in view of the difficulties which must ever press upon the writer of such a work. The enterprising publisher has done his part well; and I would join him in the hope, that the book may prove an acceptable offering to the public.
[Footnote 4: _Volsklieder der Serben, übersetzt von Talvj_, Halle 1825-26, 2 vols.]
[Footnote 5: _Versach einer geschichtlichen Charakteristik der Volkslieder germanischer Nationen, etc. von Talvj_, Leipzig 1840.]
Origin of the Slavi, 1.--Mythology, 4.--Early language and dialects, 6.--Classification, 7.--Eastern Stem, 8.--Western Stem, 11.--Slavic languages, 13.
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.
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.
HISTORY OF THE ILLYRICO-SERVIAN LANGUAGE.
_Language and Literature of the Illyrico-Servians Proper._
Language written with different alphabets, 103.--Characteristics, 104.--History, 105.
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.
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.