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 are “První Češka” (The First Czech Woman), and “Na Úsvitě” (At Dawn) both of which depict the period of the Czech renaissance; "Několik Archů z Rodinné Kroniky” (Some Pages from Family Chronicles), “Lamač a Jeho Dítě” (The Quarryman and His Child), “Vesnický Román” (A Village Romance) and “Kříž u Potoka" (The Cross Beside the Brook),—these latter two dramatized by Eliška Pešková and “Hubička” (The Kiss) dramatized by E. Krásnohorská. “Poslední Paní Hlohovská” (The Last Lady of Hlohov) a novel of the Thirty Years War and of the court of Joseph II, has been translated into English under the title of “Maria Felicia.”

Světlá is always sincere and direct and seldom varies in her style. She has a story to tell that is worth reading and in no case does she tax the limits of plausibility to induce interest. Her stories are of her own people, in whose happiness she rejoiced, in whose sufferings she sorrowed.