20–7497
“A study of Douglas as a public character which is necessarily also a picture of his times. The author stresses the fundamental patriotism which the heated party controversies of the day often obscured. Sources are not cited.”—Booklist
+ Booklist 17:69 N ’20 + N Y Times 25:9 Jl 4 ’20 80w
“Mr Howland leaves upon his readers a clear-cut impression of Douglas—of what he did and of what he failed to do. He knows his man and the times in which he lived. Slips are few.” J: C. Rose
+ Review 3:191 S 1 ’19 1700w
HRBKOVA, SÁRKA B., tr. and ed. Czechoslovak stories. (Interpreters’ ser.) *$1.90 (2c) Duffield
20–8884
The author of these translations in a long introductory essay on the people and literature of Czechoslovakia, divides the literature into three periods: the early, the middle and the modern—the last dating from the close of the eighteenth century to the present day. The writers of the stories belong to the most modern group, from 1848 to the present day and consist of Svatopluk Cech; Jan Neruda; Franti[)s]ek Xavier Svoboda; Joseph Svatopluk Machar; Bo[)z]ena Víková-Kunĕtická; Bo[)z]ena Nĕmcová; Alois Jirásek; Ignát Herrman; Jan Klecanda; Caroline Svĕtlá. A short biography of the writer precedes each translation and there are appendices.
“Several in their simplicity and beauty are as fine and true as some of Selma Lagerlöf’s best peasant tales.”