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 literature, it is with pleasure that we state that before the war special arrangements had been made to issue as frequently as possible all the best examples of English literary work, and in this way build up what we may reasonably style our "English library." (Editor, J. Otto-Prague.)

Bohemian scientific literature can be said only to have made its first appearance in the nineteenth century, as previously Bohemian savants published their works either in German or Latin. However, the nationalisation of this branch of the work is progressing steadily. In the several departments of scientific writing, the names worthy of special mention are Fr. Palacky, Jos. Dobrovsky, P. J. Safarik, V. V. Tomek. Bohemian philology owes much to the labours of Jos. Dobrovsky, P. J. Safarik, Jos. Jungmann, M. Hattala. The history of literature has been dealt with by J. Dobrovsky, J. Jungmann, J. Vlcek, and V. Flajshans; historynatural history [sic] is represented by the works of Purkyne, Jos Krejci, Jan Palacky, Fric, and Celakovsky. Metaphysics has an excellent representation in the highly intellectual works of A. Smetana, Ot. Hostinsky, T. G. Masaryk. In the science of Law A. Randa, E. Ott J. Prazak, A. Zucher, Boh, RiegerBoh. Rieger [sic], and Braf have achieved great eminence.

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