nd, sister to king Wenceslaus of
Bohemia, possessed a Bible in Latin, German and Bohemian; to which
circumstance Wickliffe alluded in one of his writings, quoted by Huss
in his reply to Stockes, Tom. I. p.108. See Dobrovsky's _Gesch. der
boehm. Sprache_, p.142.]

[Footnote 18: The Bohemians, like the Germans, adopted the Latin
alphabet; but the former, receiving it from the Germans, adopted it in
the corrupted form of these latter, viz. they imitated the Gothic
letters, so called, in which also all ancient Bohemian books are
printed. In modern times the genuine Roman letters have nearly
supplanted them; to which several different signs are added to adapt
them to the Slavic sounds. The Bohemian alphabet can only be said to
have forty-two letters, in so far as the same letter with or without a
sign can be considered as two different letters. The English alphabet
would be almost without number, if all the three or four modes of
pronunciation connected with one and the same letter in that language,
were indicated by certain signs, and these signs made three or four
letters out of one.]

[Footnote 19: The Bohemian writings of Huss are extant partly in
manuscript, partly in single printed pamphlets, but have never been
collected. They consist of sermons, hymns, letters to his friends,
postillae, and other interpretations of the Scriptures, etc. His
complete Latin works were first printed in Wittenberg 1558, and
repeatedly afterwards. They contain many pieces which were originally
written in Bohemian; as were also the letters which Luther caused to
be printed with a preface of his own, Wittenberg 1536. Luther
translated several of his hymns. The letters written by Huss from the
prison at Constance are the expressions of a pure and elevated mind,
and present the best evidence of his spotless Christian character.
Some of them might serve as beautiful specimens of the sublime.]

[Footnote 20: These interesting letters, containing all the
circumstances of Jerome's last days and death, his eloquent speeches
before the Council and a full account of the despicable conduct of his
accusers, may be found at large in Shepherd's Life of Poggio
Bracciolini.]

[Footnote 21: See Dobrovsky's _Geschichte der boehm, Sprache_, p. 201.]

[Footnote 22: In a polemic satirical pamphlet the question was
started: "Master, tell me what birds are the best, those which eat and
drink, or those which eat and do not drink? and why are those which
eat