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 is a Slovák writer, ten volumes of whose poems, short stories and novels have been published in Sv. Martin.

Among poets of high order who expressed the most advanced spiritual interests in the present day stands a trio headed by Joseph S. Machar with Otakar Březina the chief symbolist and lyric visionary and Antonín Sova ever seeking psychological bases and portraying some crisis of the soul. P. Selver, an English poet, and O. Kotouč, an American have translated many typical lyrics by this trio.

Viktor Dyk has written numerous poems in a sceptical, satirical vein and is also the author of some incisive short stories and dramas. Petr Bezruč whose real name is Vladimir Vašek “first bard of Beskyd,” is unqualifiedly the true singer of Silesia whose bitter fate of denationalization at the hands of the Germans and Poles he lamented in lyrical lines inspiring his brother Czechs over the border to render what aid they could before submergence was complete.

No review of Czech and Slovák literature could be counted complete if it omitted Thomas G. Masaryk. The man who to-day is president of the newly created Czechoslovak Republic has been a leader of thought in his native land for nearly two decades. Born March 7, 1850, in Hodonin, Moravia, of a Slovák father and Moravian “Hanák” mother, he had all the experiences incident to laboring families of insufficient means, before he finished the gymnasium in Brno and his