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 nize the just aspirations of her own sex. She never rhapsodizes without effect and her feelings, sounding deep and ringing true, are ever purposeful. The best collections are “Na Živé Struně” (On a Living String), “Vlny v Proudu” (Waves in the Current), “K Slovanskému Jihu” (To the Slavonic South) “Letorosty" (Sprigs) and “Povídky” (Stories).

She wrote unusually clever librettos for Smetana’s operas “Hubička” (The Kiss) and “Tajemství” (The Secret), for Zděnek Fibich’s “Blaník” (Mount Blanik) and for Bendl’s “Lejla” and “Karel Škréta.” Her translations were chiefly from Alex. Puškin (Boris Godunov) and Selected Poems, Hamerling (King of Zion) Lord Byron (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage), Adam Mickiewicz (Pan Tadeusz).

She has produced great numbers of stories for children and sketches and novels appearing in women’s magazines though by no means limited to that sex for readers.

Valuable books of travel and discovery have been written by numerous Czech explorers and “globetrotters.” Among them are: Joseph Kořenský who wrote “A Trip Around the World”; Jiří Guth, “A Causerie of Travel” digesting in many volumes the philosophy of the nations visited; Dr. Emil Holub, who explored South Africa and wrote several volumes on his numerous trips; Pavel Durdik who with wonderful interest discussed his “Five Years in Sumatra.”