[Footnote 52: For more complete information in respect to Bohemian literature, a knowledge of one of the Slavic idioms or of the German language is absolutely required; we know of nothing written on this subject in the English language, except the article of Bowring already cited. This gives an able survey of the poetical part of the literature, but does not profess to cover the whole ground.--The grammatical and lexical part of the Bohemian literature is uncommonly rich, and exhibits no small mass of talent. We confine ourselves to citing the titles of those written in German or Latin. No helps in English or French for learning the Bohemian language, so far as we know, ever existed.--GRAMMARS. _Kurze, Unterweisung beyder Sprachen, teutsch und bömisch_, Pilsen 1531, and several later editions. Klatowsky _Bömisch-deutche Gespräche_, Prague 1540, and several later editions. B. Optat _Anleitung zur böhm. Orthogr._ etc, 1533, Prague 1588 and 1643. Beneshowsky _Gram. Bohem._ Prague 1577. Benedict a Nudhozer _Gram. Bohem._ Prague 1603. Drachowsky _Gramm. Bohem._ Olmütz 1660. Constantin's _Lima linguae Bohem._ Prague 1667. _Principia linguae Bohem._ 1670-80; new edition 1783. Jandit _Gramm. ling. Bohem._ Prague 1704, seven new editions to 1753. Dolezal _Gramm. Slavico-bohem._ Pressburg 1746. Pohl _Böhmische Sprachkunst_, Vienna 1756, five editions to 1783. Tham _Böhm. Sprachlehre_, Prague 1785; also his _Böhm. Grammatik_, 1798-1804. Pelzel _Grandsätze der böhm. Sprache_, Prague 1797-98. Negedly _Böhm. Grammatik_, Prague 1804, fourth edition 1830. Dobrovsky's _Lehrgebdude der böhm. Sprache_, Prague 1809, second edition 1819. Koneczny _Anleitung zur Erlernung der Böhm. Sprache,_ Prague 1846.--DICTIONARIES. Of these we mention only such as would aid persons who wish to learn the language so far as to read Bohemian books; referring the reader for an enumeration of the others to Schaffarik's _Gesch._ p. 301. Weleslawin _Sylva quadrilinguis_, Prague 1598. _Gazophylacium bohem. lat. graec. germ._ Prague 1671. Rohn _Böhmisch-lat. deutscher Nomenclator_, Prague 1764-68. Tham _Böhmisch-deutsches National-lexicon_ Prague 1805-7. Also his _Deutsch-böhmisches und Bohmisch-deutsches Taschenwörterbuch_, Prague 1818. Tomsa _Böhm. deutsch-lat. Wörterbuch,_ Prague 1791. Palkowicz _Böhmisch-deutsch-lateinisches Wörterbuch_, Pressburg 1821. Koneczny _Böhmish-Deutsches und Deutsch-Böhm. Taschenwörterbuch_, Prague 1846. The same, _Handbuch der Böhmischen Sprache,_ Prague 1847.] [Footnote 54: We have seen in the history of the Old Slavic language, that on account of the great similarity of the old Slavic and the Slovakish dialects, both in respect to form and grammatical structure and in the meaning of words, it has been maintained by several philologists, that the language of Cyril's translation of the Bible was in the translator's time the Moravian _Slovakian_ dialect. See above, p. 27.] [Footnote 55: See above, p. 143.]