[45] This legend forms the subject of a very fine poem by the gifted Bohemian poet, Svatopluk Cech. It has been admirably translated into German by the late Professor Albrecht.
[46] Dr. Podlaha and Mr. Sittler have in the present year (1901) published a beautifully illustrated notice of the Loretto Treasury.
[47] Rudolph was a great collector of Albrecht Dürer's pictures; this perhaps accounts for this picture being--undoubtedly wrongly--attributed to Dürer.
[48] _See_ my _History of Bohemian Literature_, p. 93.
[49] _See_ Professor Léger's _L'Evangile de Rheims_.
[50] There are two churches of St. Nicholas at Prague; the one mentioned above, and another in the Malá Strana.
[51] As a writer on Prague must almost assume ignorance of the national language on the part of his readers, I may mention that an excellent German translation of this poem by Mrs. Malybrok-Stieler has recently been published by Mr. Rivnác at Prague.
[52] In his _Hundert Tage in Oesterreich_. I quote from the English translation, published by Messrs. Chapman & Hall in 1844.
[53] _See_ my _Bohemia: A Historical Sketch_.
[54] In his _Die Schlacht am Weissen Berge_.
[56] Some remains of the ancient structure appear to have existed in comparatively recent times. In his _Phosphorus Septicornus_ Pesina (1629-1680) writes of the 'castellum Hradec uno atque medio infra Pragam milieri' that 'castelli hujus rudera hodique spectantur in quorum medio templum ... adhuc integrum.'
Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
Vaclavské Namesti=> Vaclavské Námesti { pg xviii}
Mala Strana (small quarter)=> Malá Strana (small quarter) { pg 4}
Staromestske Námesti=> Staromestské Námesti { pg 24}
to re-establish Protestanism=> to re-establish Protestantism { pg 128}
the Matternich period=> the Metternich period { pg 136}
was orginally a chapel=> was originally a chapel { pg 155}
the seventeeth century=> the seventeenth century { pg 156}
'Ehrermietglied' the name of 'Von Göthe, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenachser, Staatsminister and Geheimer Rath. This was not corrected to=> 'Ehrenmitglied' the name of 'Von Göthe, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenacher, Staatsminister und Geheimer Rath. { pg 164}
Mr. Svatek writes=> Mr. Svátek writes { pg 187}
renders Mr. Svatek's=> renders Mr. Svátek's { pg 187}