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barbarians. Palacky has certainly proved that these descriptions, founded on vague statements of German monks or on the mendacious Hajek, Palacky s impartial are at least grossly exaggerated. account of the career of Hus, who had in Austria previously been described in accordance with the words of the censor, which I have quoted, displeased the more Professor Hofler, who prejudiced Roman Catholics. was both a fanatical Teuton and a bigoted Roman CathoHc, was the most persistent opponent of Palacky. Palacky replied to his criticism in his Geschichte des Hussitanthums und Professor Hofler, which appeared in 1868. Mainly polemical also was Palacky's small work, Zur In Bohmischen Geschichtschreibung, published in 1871. this book the author defends his historical work against the attacks of Professor Hofler and other German critics. He gives here also an account of his old controversies with the censure-office, from which I have quoted. Several collections of documents are also due to the In i860 he published a collection diligence of Palacky. — of —^mostly Latin documents referring to the reign of King George of Podebrad. A similar but far more interesting collection of Latin and Bohemian documents was published in 1869. I have in chapter iii. frequently quoted this collection, on which, indeed, my account of the career of Hus is principally based. The Latin documents are printed in that language only, but Palacky has given a Latin translation of those that were written in Bohemian. An additional collection of documents, published in 1873, refers to the period of the Hussite wars. In the last years of his life Palacky published in three volumes s election of the most important historical, political, and literary essays which he had written in Bohemian. This savage, and

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