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x matin, il demand a a son confesseur, le Père Lamormain, s’it pouvait, sans blesser sa conscience condamner ou faire grâce. Lamormain lui ayant répondu qu’il avait le droit de faire l’un et l’autre, l’Empereur signa l’arrêt de mort de vingt-huit des condamnés, la plupart anciens directeurs.” My own poem is founded on an old chronicle published in Amsterdam. To those who, having read my poor book, may feel an interest in Bohemian history, I take the liberty to name the works from which I drew my information: Grube Geschichtsbilder, p. 195, Leipzig; Coxe’s House of Austria, Bohn’s Standard Library, London, 1877; Persécutions des Patriotes Bohêmes, 1621; D’aprês la Chronique, Amsterdam, 1648, p.48; Histoire Guerre de Trente Ans, 1618 and 1648, par E. Charvériat, Paris, 1878; History of Germany, by Markham, London, 1876; The Weltgeschichte von Moritz Heger and Moritz Schlimpert, Dresden, 1856, p. 502; Geschichte des Dreissigjährigen Kriegs, Schiller, Leipzig, 1868, p. 61; La Bohême, par Joseph Friez and Louis Leger, Paris, 1867 (this work is also forbidden in Austria); Chants Heroiques et Chansons, Populaires des Slaves de Bohême, par Louis Leger, Paris, 1866; The Native Literature of Bohemia in the Fourteenth Century, by A. B.H. [sic] Wratislaw, M.A., London, 1878.

Trusting that my book may do something toward making Bohemian literature better known, I send my poor little book out into the wide world of intellectual thought, feeling sure that all will sympathize with my effort, and that some may even feel pleasure in reading the songs of long ago. F. P..