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 whose nearest rival in the field of the realistic novel is another woman—Karolina Světlá.

Gustav Pfleger Moravský’s best work is his novel of the laboring classes “Z Malého Světa” (From a Small World) which is significant as the first psychological study in literature of the struggle of labor with capital and the attempt to create a new social order.

Václav Vl. Tomek, called “the Historian of Prague,” is the successor as an authority in the source method as well as of literary style of his distinguished predecessor, Frant. Palácký. Antonín Gindely organized the Czech archives and drew on them as well as on the documentary sources in France, Germany, Belgium, Holland and Spain for the material for his histories of the period of John Amos Komensky and the Bohemian and Moravian Brethren. Joseph Emler published hitherto unknown “Original Sources of Czech History.” August Sedláček’s chief contribution is a monumental work on “The Castles, Palaces and Citadels of the Kingdom of Bohemia,” written in interesting literary manner as was also his “Historic Legends and Traditions of the Czech People in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.” Dr. Arne Novák, Dr. J. V. Novák and J. VlčehVlček [sic] have written extensive and valuable histories of Czech and Slovák literature.

Joseph Jiří Kolar (1812–1896) is called the “Father of Modern Dramatic Literature” among the Czechs.