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_, 300.--_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. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, 405. INDEX OF SLAVIC AUTHORS, 407. * * * * * 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. * * * * * HISTORICAL SKETCH. INTRODUCTION.