Bohemian (Cech) Bibliography. By Thomas and Anna V. Capek. (Fleming
H. Revell. 6s. net.)—We have heard much, and shall hew more, about the resolute Bohemian Slays who are at last recovering their freedom. This book is a useful attempt at a classified list of the English works relating to Bohemia,with a brief calendar of some State Papers dealing with that country. The names of Wenceslaus Holler, Komeneky or Comenius, Smetana, and Dvorak, as well as of Wiclif's disciples, Jerome of Prague and John Huss remind us that England and Bohemia have owed a good deal to one another in the past. The historical sectionabounds in books and pamphlets relating to the attempt of James I.'s son-in-law, Frederick, Elector Palatine, to assert his right as the elected Protestant King of Bohemia against the Hapsburg Emperor. Frederick's defeat at the battle of the White Mountain, November 8th, 1620, cost Bohemia her independence. The author tells us that after this Irish friars—then as now friendly to Austria—went to Prague to take part in the forcible conversion of the Bohemians to the Roman faith.
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