DICTIONARIES.--ENGLISH. Parenoga's _Lex. Anglinsko-ross._ and _Russian-English Lexicon_, 4 vols. 1808-17. Zdanof's _Angl.-ross._ and _Russian-Engl, Dict_. St. Pet. 1784. Constantinon's _Russian Grammar and Dict_. 3 vols. 8vo. Lond. _A Russian-Engl_. and _Engl.-Russ. Dict_. 18mo. Leipz. Tauchn. 1846.--GERMAN. Heyne's _Russisch-Deutsch und Deutsch-Russ. Wörterb_, Riga 1795-98. The same writer's _Russ. Deutsch and Frauz. Wörterb_. in several forma and editions, Riga 1796 to 1812; also Moscow 1826; last improved edit. Leipz. Tauchn, 1844. Oldekop's _Russ.-Deutsch und Deutsch-Russ. Wörterb._ St. Pet. 1825. J.A.E. Schmidt's _Russ.-Deutsch und Deutsch-Russ. Wörterb_. Leipz. Tauchn, 1841. The same writer's _Poln. Russ. Deutsch. Wörterb_. 2 vols. 8vo. Breslau 1834-6.--FRENCH. Tatishtchefs _Nouveau Dict. Franc.-Russe_, etc. 2 vols. 8vo. Moscow 1832.] * * * * * CHAPTER II. HISTORY OF THE ILLYRICO-SERVIAN LANGUAGE. SECTION I. LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OF THE ILLYRICO-SERVIANS PROPER. The literature of the western Slavo-Servians has hitherto been altogether separated from that of their brethren of the oriental church, and treated as a distinct branch.[1] Their language, however, being essentially the same, we do not see why the rather accidental circumstance, that the former use the Roman letters, while the latter adhere to the Cyrillic alphabet, should be a sufficient reason for such a separation. The literature of neither of them has as yet treasures enough, to renounce willingly the claims which their mutual and naturally rich though uncultivated language gives to the one upon the productions of the other. We now proceed, in a short historical introduction, to show the origin of this separation; after making a few preliminary remarks on the character of the language as a whole, unaffected by its division into different dialects, not more distinct indeed from each other than is the case in almost every other living idiom.