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from 1849 to 1859, were deeply felt by Safafik. He now confined his studies to the remote antiquity of the Slav race. Every allusion to Bohemian history of later times Safafik, again became inadmissible during these years. whose health had long been failing, died on June 2nd, 1861. Some time before his death his mental faculties had been affected. I shall only mention a few of the most important His many Bohemian of Safarik's numerous writings. essays on Slavic philology and archaeology — mostly published in the Journal of the Bohemian Museum — have indeed inestimable value for those who devote themselves to these studies, but little interest for others. Safarik's first work was a small collection of Bohemian songs, written when he was only nineteen years of age, and entitled Tatranskd M'&sa s lyrou Slovanskou ("The Carpathian Muse with Slavic Lyre "). Early works also were several translations, of which that of the Clouds of Aristophanes and that of Schiller's Maria Stuart are the most important. A work which had already occupied Safafik at Jena, but which he only completed during his stay at Neusatz, was his German Geschichte der Slavischen Sprache und Literatur (" History of the Slavic Language and Literature "). Neusatz or Novy Sad, a town in the south of Hungary, close to the frontier of Croatia, and not far from that of the present kingdom of Servia, was situated very favourably for the purpose of studying the In his book Safafik, contrary various Slav languages. ito the now generally accepted method of dividing the Slavs into three branches, distinguishes two classes of Slav nations only, and divides his book into two parts in accordance with this system. The first part deals with the Old Slavic language, the Russian, Servian 2

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