being unnatural. At the head of this movement, so far as it
respects philological investigations, was P.J. Schaffarik; in respect
to historical researches, Fr. Palacky; the first a Slovak, the second
a Moravian by birth; and both of them highly esteemed as scholars of
great learning, uncommon acuteness, and indefatigable research; but
both also, from a very laudable national partiality, inclined to
favour those results of their researches, which should serve to
support their own patriotic or Panslavic views. It will therefore not
be found surprising, that they should have met with a strong, nay
passionate opposition.

Schaffarik, whose valuable work on the Slavic languages and their
history we have chiefly consulted in our present sketch, (not however
without due regard to his own altered and corrected views, as given to
the public in his later works,) was born in 1795 at Kbeljarowo in
Northern Hungary. He received a German education; and, following the
example of other leading Slavic scholars, like Dobrovsky and Kopitar,
notwithstanding his partiality for all that is Slavic, he wrote most
of his earlier works in German. His "History of the Slavic Language
and Literature," although a production of his youth, and written
before the full maturity of the author's views, has perhaps
contributed more than any other work to a knowledge of the Slavic
literature in general, and of the classification and mutual relation
of the Slavic languages. After further researches, he prepared a
"History of the Southern Slavi;" which however, so far as we are
informed, has never been printed. Instead of it he published a work on
"Slavic Antiquities" in the Bohemian language. It was patriotism which
induced him not only to choose this language in preference to the
German, and thus give up a far greater field of influence; but he also
declined a well endowed Slavic professorship in the university of
Berlin, from the same generous and patriotic motive, and settled in
Prague. Here he undertook the editorship of a periodical founded by
Palacky; and operated in connection with him and other Slavic scholars
for the promotion of Slavic, and principally Bohemian, literature. For
this end a society was founded among the Bohemian and Slovakian
scholars and gentry, called the _Stalci_, the Constant. They bound
themselves to buy every respectable book, which should be printed in
the Bohemian language. In 1842 Schaffarik published a "Slavic
Ethnography