  Not unnecessarily to extend this list, I have enumerated only a few books, dealing either with Bohemian literature as a whole, or with considerable portions of it. Bohemian books have increased rapidly within the last few years. I have therefore left unmentioned many valuable monographs, which are indispensable to those who wish to acquire a more thorough knowledge of Bohemian literature than I have been able to give in this book. Literature and history are very closely connected in Bohemia, and many of the modern historians, such as PalackÝ, Gindely, Goll, Tieftrunk, Kalousek, and FlajŠhans, throw a great deal of light also on the literature of Bohemia. Much valuable information on Bohemian literature is also contained in the numerous editions of ancient Bohemian writings—frequently mentioned in these pages—which appeared in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Most of them contain valuable commentaries and biographies. Besides the Journal of the Bohemian Museum, the yearly publications of the Bohemian Society of Sciences and of the Bohemian Academy incidentally devote their attention to the literature of the country. Periodicals such as the Cesky Casopis historickÝ, Lumir, Svetozor, Osveta, and others contain many interesting articles on Bohemian literature. Casopis Musea KrÁlovstvÍ CeskÉho. Journal of the Museum of the Bohemian Kingdom. Published annually since 1827. DobrovskÝ (Joseph). Geschichte der BÖhmischen Sprache und Literatur. Prag, 1818. FlajŠHans (Dr. VÁclav). Pisemnictvi CeskÉ (Bohemian Literature). Prague, 1901. JerÁbek (Dr. F. V.). StarÁ doba romantickÉho bÁsnictvi (The Ancient Period of Romantic Poetry). Prague, 1883. Jirecek (Dr. Joseph). Rukovet k dejinÁm literatury ceskÉ do Konce XVIII. veku (Handbook of the History of Bohemian Literature up to the End of the Eighteenth Century). Prague, 1875 and 1876. Jungmann (Joseph). Historie Literatury CeskÉ (History of Bohemian Literature). Second enlarged edition. Prague, 1849. LÉger (Professor Louis). Le Monde Slave [1 vol.], Études Slaves [3 vols.], Russes et Slaves [2 vols.]. Professor LÉger has devoted more than thirty years to the study of the Slavic race. All the books mentioned contain valuable essays on Bohemian literature. LÜtzow (Count). Ancient Bohemian Literature (New Review, February 1897). LÜtzow (Count). Lectures on the Historians of Bohemia; being the Ilchester Lectures for the Year 1904. Morfill (W. R., M.A.). Slavonic Literature. Contains in a few pages a concise and interesting account of the literature of Bohemia. Murko (Dr. Matthias). AnfÄnge der bÖhmischen Romantik. A very interesting work. Murko, however, attempts to prove too much when he maintains that the Bohemian patriots mainly imitated the Germans in their desire of national development. PalackÝ (Franz). WÜrdigung der alten bÖhmischen Geschichtschreiber. New edition. Prague, 1869. PalackÝ (Franz). Die VorlÄufer des Hussitenthums. New edition. Prague, 1869. Pypin (a. N.) and Spasovic; (V. D.). Geschichte der Slavischen Literaturen. Written in Russian, Translated into German by Traugott Pech. Nearly a whole volume is devoted to the history of Bohemian literature. ŠŠafarik (Paul Joseph). Geschichte der slavischen Sprache und Literatur, New edition. Prague, 1869. Talvij (Mrs. Robinson). Historical View of the Slavic Language and its Various Dialects. This is not an original work, but an extract From ŠŠafarik's Book That Has Just Been Mentioned. PalackÝ And Šafarik himself pointed this out many years ago. Tieftrunk (Karel). Historie Literatury CeskÉ (History of Bohemian Literature). Second edition. Prague, 1880. Vlcek (Jaroslav). Dejiny Literatury CeskÉ (History of Bohemian Literature). This work is still incomplete, and appears in short parts at considerable intervals. Wratislaw (Rev. A. H.). The Native Literature of Bohemia in the Fourteenth Century. With the exception of Messrs. Pypin and Spasovic's work, I have quoted the titles of these books in the language in which they were published, adding an English translation of books published in Bohemian.
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