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Rh mainly deal with the period of Bohemian history that begins with the accession of the house of Habsburg (1526) and ends with the battle of the White Mountain (1620). Professor Tieftrunk has also published a short history of Bohemian literature.

The study of philology has recently been greatly developed in Bohemia. One of the greatest living Bohemian philologists is Professor Gebauer, to whose writings it is principally due that the genuineness of the MSS. of Grüneberg and Königinhof is now generally considered doubtful. Professor Gebauer has now begun the publication of a Historical Grammar of the Bohemian Language on a very large scale. Only Part I. and Part III. (consisting of two volumes) have as yet appeared. Of the many younger philologists, Dr. Flajšhans should be mentioned. He has for some time been occupied in publishing a history of Bohemian literature in short parts. It is to be regretted that the publication does not proceed more rapidly. Very valuable for Bohemian philology and early literature are the labours of Mr. Adolphus Patera, head-librarian of the Bohemian Museum at Prague. For many years Mr. Patera has employed his annual holidays in searching for early Bohemian MSS., many of which, though forgotten, still exist in the libraries of the towns and monasteries of Bohemia and Moravia. Mr. Patera has been indefatigable in deciphering these very ancient MSS., and has published the results of his study in the Časopis Musea Královstoi Českého. The very interesting but long-neglected study of Bohemian folk-lore has greatly progressed through the labours of Dr. Zibrt. He has published many of the results of his researches in the periodical Česky Lid ("The Bohemian People") of which he is editor. To render his studies accessible to a larger