otnote 1: Herder, in his _Volkslieder_, communicated a popular
ballad from this dialect. See _Literatur und Kunst_, Vol. VII. p. 126,
edit. of 1827-30.]

[Footnote 2: "On a certain day all the inhabitants of Kief were
assembled on the banks of the Dnieper, and on a signal from the
monarch, all plunged into the river, some to the waist, others to the
neck; parents held their children in their arms while the ceremony was
performed by the priests in attendance. Thus a nation received
baptism, not only without murmuring, but with cheerfulness; for all
were convinced that a religion, embraced by the sovereign and boyards,
must necessarily be the best in the world" Foreign Quart. Review, Art.
on Karamsin's History of Russia, Vol. III. p. 160. Compare Henderson's
Travels in Russia, p. 191.]

[Footnote 3: See Cramer's _Pommersche Kirchen Historie_, LI. c. 29.]

[Footnote 4: Among others the peasants of the duchy of Altenburg, who
are highly respectable through a certain degree of cultivation rare
among German peasants, and distinguished for their wealth and
prosperous condition. Although long since perfectly Germanized,
certain Vendish usages have been kept up among them, more especially
at weddings and similar festivals, the details of which are very
interesting.]

[Footnote 5: _Principia linguae Vandalicae seu Wendica_, Prague
1679-1682.]

[Footnote 6: _Didascalia sive Orthographia Vandalica_, Bautzen 1689.]

[Footnote 7: _De Originibus linguae Sorabicae_ M. Abrah. Frencelij,
Budiss. et Zwickau 1693-96.]

[Footnote 8: _Kurzgefasste Grammatik der Sorben-Wendischen Sprache_,
Bautzen 1828.]

[Footnote 9: _Grammatik der wendisch-sorbischen Sprache in der Ober
Lausitz. Im Systeme Dubrovsky's abgefasst_, von J.P. Jordan, Prague
1841. Here may be mentioned also, _Maly Sserb_, i.e. _der kleine
Serbe, wendische-deutsche Gesprache etc. mit einem wendisch-deutschen
und deutsch-wendischen Wuerterbuch, etc._ von J.E. Schmaler, Bautzen
1841.--There exists besides this only one Sorabian Dictionary, and
this in Latin, _Vocabularium latino-sorbicum_, by G.A. Swotlik,
Bautzen 1721.]

[Footnote 10: _Volkslieder der Wenden in der Ober und Nieder Lausitz,
und mit den Sangweisen, deutsher Uebersetzung_, etc. herausgegeben von
Leopold Haupt und J.E. Schmaler, Grimma 1841, 2 vols. The second
volume contains the songs in the dialect of Lower Lusatia.]

[Footnote 11: Philological works on this dialect are the following:
Hauptmann's _Wend