The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Slavic Europe

SLAVIC EUROPE.

 

A selected bibliography in the western languages. By Robert Kerner, Ph. D. Harvard University Press.

Both the book and the author are of interest to the Czechoslovaks of the United States. Dr. Kerner is son of one of the publishers of the Denní Hlasatel and at present is in Bohemia on a mission for the American government. For a year before that Dr. Kerner was gathering data for the House Commission, so that one may feel certain that the American peace mission is in possession of correct facts bearing on ethnographical and other phases of the Czechoslovak problem.

The book which Mr. Kerner recently completed is a monument to his untiring diligence. He cites some 8000 distinct works in English, French, German, Italian, Latin etc., dealing with the general subject of Slavic Europe. Out of 4521 titles about 800 are cited which deal with the Bohemians and Slovaks. Here his book covers somewhat the same field as Mr. Čapek’s “Bohemian Bibliography”, but Dr. Kerner cites works in other languages than English only. For his chapter on writings dealing with Bohemia Dr. Kerner searched the University and Museum libraries of Prague, and his list is quite exhaustive and thorough. But the usefulness of the book to others than scholars would be increased, if a shorter list had been prepared giving only the few important boks under each nation and each subdivision.

 

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