These decisions no doubt tended to the abolition of a custom or
principle so subversive of marriage and of the legitimacy of offspring.
J.M.G.
Worcester, July 19.
_Russian Language_.--A friend of mine, about to go to Russia, wrote to
me some time since, to ask if he could get a _Russian grammar in
English, or any English books bearing on the language_. I told him I did
not think there were any; but would make inquiry. Dr. Bowring, in his
_Russian Anthology_, states as a remarkable fact, that the first Russian
grammar ever published was published in England. It was entitled _H.W.
Ludolfi Grammatica Russica quae continet et Manuductionem quandum ad
Grammaticam Slavonicam_. Oxon. 1696. The Russian grammar next to this,
but published in its own language, was written by the great Lomonosov,
the father of Russian poetry, and the renovator of his mother tongue: I
know not the year, but it was about the middle of the last century. I
have a German translation of this grammar "Von Johann Lorenz
Stuvenhagen: St. Petersburgh, 1764.
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