A History of Bohemian LiteratureLützow, Francis, hrabe
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A History of Bohemian Literature
Lützow, Francis, hrabe
Czech literature -- History and criticism
[109] According to Dr. Kvacsala's calculation. Dr. Zoubek only
enumerates 137 books. The difference is caused by the uncertainty
whether certain rewritten books, sometimes republished in a different
name, should be counted twice. Mr. Keatinge's book contains a list of
127 books of Komenský.
[110] See p. 248.
[111] My translation of the _Labyrinth of the World_ was published by
Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein in 1901. The book now forms part of Messrs.
Dent's "Temple Classics."
[112] The book has recently again been translated into English
(probably from the German version) by Mr. W. Monroe, under the name
of the _School of Infancy_. The book contains a "bibliography of
Comenian literature," from which one would fancy that Bohemian works
were purposely excluded, if two books written in that language,
published respectively at Omaha and Racine, U.S., did not figure in the
list.
[113] The first edition of the book was Latin and Bohemian. Anglo-Latin
versions are numerous, the last having been published at Oxford in
1800. There are also French, Greek, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, and
Hungarian editions of the _Janua_, as well as some that, besides the
Latin version, are printed in several modern languages.
[114] In the Latin version of the _Janua_ this reads as follows:--"Qui
cupit capit omnia," a rather contestable statement, that is very
characteristic of Komenský.
[115] I quote from the Elzevir edition of 1611, edited by Duez, which
is written in the languages mentioned above. The passage, of course,
varied in each edition according to the languages in which it was
published.
[116] See note 2, p. 261.
[117] Though nothing would have appeared more revolting to the pious
Komenský, his ideas here somewhat recall the twofold sun of the Emperor
Julian.
[118] I have written with more detail on Komenský's "pansophy" in my
_Bohemia, an Historical Research_. Further study of Komenský's works on
pansophy has not given me a higher opinion of their value.
[119] It may interest some readers to know the complete table of
contents of the enormous volume, which is divided into four parts:--
PART I.
1. De primis occasionibus ... relatio. 2. Didactica Magna. 3. Schola
materni gremii. 4. Scholæ vernaculæ delineatio. 5. Janua Latinæ linguæ,
primum edita. 6. Vestibulum. 7. Proplasma templi Latinatis. 8. De
sermonis Lat. studio dissertatio. 9. Prodromus pansophiæ. 10. Variorum
de eo censuræ. 11. Pansophicorum conatuum dilucidatio.
PART II.
1. De novis ... occasionibus. 2. Methodus linguarum novissima. 3. L. L.
vestibulum. 4. L. L. Janua nova. 5. Lexicon Januale Latino-Germanicum.
6. Grammatica Latino-vernacula. 7. De atrio relatio. 8. Quædam de his
doctorum judiciis, novæque disquisitiones.
PART III.
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