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408 Bohemian critics place next to Vrchlický—Julius Zeyer, and Adolphus Heyduk should be mentioned. Svatopluk Cěch (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. Eliška (Eliza) Krasnohorská (born 1847), Karolina Světla (born 1830), and Jaroslav Vlcěk are also popular novelists.

Bohemian literature has at most periods been rich in historians, and at the present day many writers are successfully following in the footsteps of Palacký. The lately-deceased Dr. Anton Gindely, whom Palacký 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 Dějepis Města Prahy ("History of the Town of Prague") is the most valuable. Professor Tomek has also written a short "History of Bohemia" in German. Next to Professor Tomek we should mention Professor Josef Kalousek (born 1838), who is the author of the valuable work entitled České 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)