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 Střechami” (Under Thatched Roofs) “V Září Kalicha" (In the Glow of the Chalice) and “Z Různých Dob” (From Various Epochs). His engaging and attractive style, the genuineness of his sympathy with his subjects unite in making his works popular for readers of all ages.

Zikmund Winter as professor of history had ample opportunity to collect interesting and valuable material but his decision to use it in literature came in later years when he vividly reconstructed early Prague life from the documents and archives at his disposal, weaving vigorous characters into the ancient atmosphere. His more noteworthy collections are “Rakovnické Obrázky” (Pictures from Rakovnik) “Pražské Obrázky” (Prague Pictures), “Miniatury” (Miniatures) and “Mister Kampanus” (Magister Kampanus) a pretentious story of student life of the period succeeding the Battle of White Mountain which he regards from a partisan viewpoint.

A group of writers arose after Neruda who carried to extremes his declaration that brief genre pictures representing small segments of contemporary life with devotion to every-day detail and with a lively sense for character outline could form an eventual channel for realistic story telling. The result was an almost slavish adherence to insignificant trivialities and a parceling out, among the story writers, of specialized fields of “proficience” forgetting form and real substance for