s" for that one which had not alone a venerable tradition
but was the hall-mark of their superiority. A certain Dr. Haji['c]
wrote a monograph in which he demonstrated most emphatically that it
was the enviable happiness of the Serbian people to have no grammar.
It was hinted by some other opponents of Vuk that he might well be an
Austrian agent, who, in order to disturb the people, was now raising
questions of a most contentious nature, which had previously not been
thought of. But when the great philologist died in 1861 in Vienna he
had long been recognized as one of the most ardent patriots. His three
volumes of national songs excited the enthusiasm of Jacob Grimm, who
rushed off to learn this new language, and with essays and letters to
reveal it to Goethe. Translators, commentators, expounders and editors
flocked from all sides, and Vuk was regarded as Serbia incarnate.

THE METHODS OF SERBIA'S MILO[vS]

One naturally judges a country of which one is ignorant by the little
which one knows about the private life of its ruler. And it was
fortunate for Serbia's reputation that Prince Milo[vs] had a Vuk to
throw a shadow over him. Kara George had been a hero, Milo[vs] called
himself a statesman. Anyhow, he walked in crooked paths, although the
murders that he was accused of are now said to be not proven--with the
exception of Archbishop Nik[vc]i['c], one of his critics, and another
prominent man whom he requested the Pasha to have strangled. Kara
George--one finds in many books--was done away with when he came back
to renew the fight against the Turks; most people say that Milo[vs],
his arch-rival, had him murdered in his sleep. All that one knows for
certain is that the assassin was a man in the employ of one of
Milo[vs]'s prefects. As for Milo[vs] sending the head to the Sultan,
it is pointed out that as the Sultan's vassal he could not do
otherwise. But the stories of his wife, the strong-minded Princess
Liubica, are acknowledged to be true--how she would cry out to the
warriors, if they seemed to waver, that they were but women, and how
this induced them to attack again; how she would cook her husband's
meals and wait on him; how when she discovered that any other lady had
found favour in the Prince's sight she slew her, and retired into the
mountains until her husband was appeased or had discovered a new lady.
The court etiquette of that period was under the baneful influence of
Turkey. Milo[vs] used to live in