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A HISTORY OF BOHEMIAN LITERATURE

Bohemian critics place next to Vrchlicky — Julius Zeyer, and Adolphus Heyduk should be mentioned. Svatopluk Cech (born 1846) is also a very successful prose writer; he has published several collections of short stories under the name of Arabesky. A very talented Bohemian novelist of the present day is Jacob Arbes (born 1840). His Romanetta (short novels) would well deserve to be translated into English. Eliska (Eliza) Krasnohorskd (born 1847), Karolina Svetla (born 1830), and Jaroslav Vlcek are also popular novelists. Bohemian Hterature has at most periods been rich in historians, and at the present day many writers are successfully following in the footsteps of Palacki^. The lately-deceased Dr. Anton Gindely, whom PalackiJ^ himself considered as his successor, dealt principally with the period of the Thirty Years' War and the events in Bohemia at the beginning of the seventeenth century which led to it. Of living historians, Professor Wenceslas Tomek (born 1818) should be mentioned first. Of his many historical works, his Dejepis Mlsta Prahy (" History of the Town of Prague ") is the most valuable. Professor Tomek " History of Bohemia " in Gerhas also written a short man. Next to Professor Tomek we should mention Professor Josef Kalousek (born 1838), who is the author of the valuable work entitled Cesk^ Statni Pravo. In this book Dr. Kalousek gives a detailed account of the ancient Bohemian constitution, as it existed in the days of independence ; Professor Goll (born 1846), who has devoted his attention principally to the history of the Bohemian Brethren, but has also recently published a valuable work on the early relations between Prussia and Bohemia. The historical works of Professors Karl Tieftrunk (born 1829) and Anton Rezek (born 1853)