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103 old style glass painted with artistic taste will be of great interest to many of the visitors.

It is not easy for a small nation surrounded by a strong alien civilization, to keep in front with his efforts, and at the same time preserve its own national individuality in manners, customs and so on. Most intelligent visitors to exhibitions, as a rule take a special interest in those things differing from the ordinary cosmopolitan stamps, and which preserve the marks of national peculiarities. Therefore it has been necessary to accentuate in this first Bohemian exhibition in London these signs of our old national art and its reflex in our modern efforts.

Renata Tyršová.