The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/Bohemian bibliography

BOHEMIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY.

 

Under this title a book of 256 pages has just been published by Fleming H. Revell Company. The authors are Thomas Čapek and Anna Vostrovský Čapek.

The need for a book of this sort has been felt for a long time. Some of the pamphlets and book lets written on Bohemia have contained a short bibliographic list of English writings, dealing with the country and the people of the Czechs, but all those lists were very incomplete, in fact amateurish. The new book is a work of scholars. In all America there is no man better fitted to deal in an exhaustive and critical manner with this subject than Mr. Čapek, who, in addition to his business as president of the Bank of Europe in New York, has given years of his life to the work of acquainting America with the nation from which he sprang. His wife is well-known as a translator of Bohemian literature into English.

Mr. Čapek’s book can fairly claim to be an exhaustive list of all that has been written in English on Bohemian subjects. Of special interest is the chapter “Bohemia in British State Papers and Manuscripts” for which the material has been drawn from the British Museum collections. The book is divided into twenty-four chapters; the title of some of them will indicate the wide scope of the book. There is a chapter on Bohemian Glass, Drama, Fiction, John Hus, History, Music, Periodicals, Politics, etc.

Thebook is indispensable to every serious student of Bohemia; it will be very useful to all who want to acquaint their American friends with what has been written in English about Bohemia. The price of the book is $1.50.