Among the most interesting episodes in the Chronicle are the descriptions of the murder of Prince Venceslas by his treacherous younger brother Boleslav, and of the first meeting of Prince Ulrick and the peasant-maiden Bozena, whom he afterwards wedded. The peculiar national prejudice of many Bohemian nobles, founded not on pride of birth, but on intense racial antipathy, appears very clearly in _Dalimil's_ account of Prince Ulrick's marriage. When the nobles reproached him for his unequal alliance, he answers: "We all descend from one father--And he ranks as a noble--Whose father had much silver--And as nobility and peasantry are thus intermingled--Bozena shall be my wife--Rather would I entrust myself to a Bohemian peasant-girl--Than that I should take a German queen as my wife--Every heart clings to its nation--Therefore a German woman would less favour my language;--A German woman will have German servants--German will she teach my children--Then there will be division of languages--And thereby certain ruin to the state." Of interest also is the author's account of the reign of the great King Ottokar II. He writes as a violent enemy of that king, and attributes the disastrous close of his reign to the fact that he neglected his Slavonic countrymen and showed too great favour to the Germans. The geographical position of Bohemia, which is the outpost of the Slavonic race that advances farthest westward, has been the cause why that country has always been the scene of racial feuds. National animosities were as violent at the beginning of the fourteenth as they unfortunately are at the end of the nineteenth century. Ottokar's part in this struggle belongs to the political history of Bohemia; but it may be incidentally remarked that, as regards the accusation of having unduly favoured the Germans to the detriment of his own countrymen, the greatest of Bohemia's kings has found an eloquent defender in Palacký, the greatest Bohemian historian. The so-called _Dalimil_ thus describes the close of King Ottokar's reign: "Then the king began to heed no longer his own (countrymen)--Towns and villages he began to give to the Germans--The Germans appeared to surround him--Against the nobles he used violence--His officials he instigated against the lords of Vitkovic--Against other nobles also he began to use violence.--Therefore many nobles became angry--They appealed to Rudolph, king of the empire (_i.e._ of the Germans), against him--Saying, 'It is better that the land should be a desert--Rather than that by the king's order the Germans should hold it.'--Rudolph arrives in Austria--On the advice of the Germans the king goes to meet him--Then the king makes over all his lands to Rudolph--Rudolph, keeping the others, makes over Bohemia and Moravia to the king.... Alas for the noble king--That he did not remain true to his own nation--Thus would he have obtained great fame--And also great riches--With the help