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 the times "lead us to anticipate a yet further progress. It is a fact of the most satisfactory kind, that the national thirst for knowledge grows, and it is to the Press that all classes in Bohemia look for the supply of their requirements.

The title of Bohemia's first newspaper was cry short and to the point, "Novina," meaning "News." It contained reports of the important events of a most exciting time, the progress of the Turkish wars furnishing it with plenty of thrilling matter to fill its columns. Another journal was brought out in 1597, and published in Prague under the editorship of Daniel Sedlcansky, but the general disturbance caused by the Thirty Years' War had a blighting effect upon this journalistic venture.

Another attempt was made with but moderate results at the close of the seventeenth century, and it was not until 1719 that a great success was achieved by the publication of a paper called The Prague Post News, published every Tuesday and Saturday.

After its first successful launch, the Prague Post News continued a steady and prosperous course through changing times with a worthy succession of editors and under its original title until the year 1845, when the word "Post" was omitted, so that the old paper became henceforth known simply as Prague News.

The eventful year of 1848 had a great effect upon the Bohemian Press. With the dawn of liberty came Karel Havlicek, whose name will ever rank amongst the most brilliant of our 62