“Here is that battle-field for ever famed,
“Here are the tombs of the Tataric bands,
“Here were the fetters they for Europe framed
“For ever shatter’d by Slavonic hands.
“E’en as the ocean waves towards the shore,
“The wild ones westwards hurl’d themselves apace,
“Yet did they dash and break for evermore
“Against the rocks of the Bohemian race!”
Nor does it seem at all improbable, that the Slavonic races in general are destined to play a far more important part, than they have hitherto been supposed to do, in the grand arena of this world of struggle and vicissitude.
A few words as to the orthography of Slavonic names here adopted.
Final v or w sounds as ff.
Finalcz as ch in English.
Finalsz as sh.
Final c as tz.
Finalrz as rsh.
Some readers might perhaps not be sorry to find a few works here mentioned, which would be useful in beginning the study of Slavonic literature. I will therefore mention the following:
Talvi’s Historical View of the Language and Literature of the Slavic Nations. New York, G. P. Putnam, 1850.
Krasinski’s Sketch of the Religious History of the Slavonic Nations. Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1851.
