FROM THE BATTLE OF THE WHITE HILL TO THE PRESENT TIME 483-509
Completeness of the overthrow of Bohemian independence in 1620--Execution of leaders of insurrection--Persecution of Protestant preachers--Triumph of the Jesuits--Their absolute power--Destruction of memorials of Protestant leaders--Loc̆ika’s protest and death--Resistance and overthrow of Kuttenberg--Z̆erotin and Ferdinand--Resistance of Z̆erotin and Sabovsky--Penal laws against Protestants--Their expulsion in 1627--Overthrow of constitutional and municipal liberty and national independence--Crushing out of the language--Career of Comenius--His life before leaving Bohemia--His allegory--He settles at Lissa--“Janua aurea”--The “Didactica”--Invitation to Sweden--Comenius and Hartlib--Success and failure in England--Milton’s letter to Hartlib--Comenius in Sweden--At Elbing--Comenius and De Geer--Disappointment at peace of Westphalia--Election as Bishop of Brotherhood--Effect of his addresses--His later labours--Results of his work--General stagnation in Bohemia--Accession of Maria Theresa and its results--Suppression of the Jesuits--Joseph’s Edict of Toleration--Shortcomings of his religious policy--Of his educational policy--His opposition to Constitutional liberty--His abolition of serfdom--Leopold II.--Revival of Bohemian Literature--Frantis̆ek Pelc̆el--Caspar von Sternberg--Josef Dobrovsky--Leopold II. and Dobrovsky--The National Museum--The Königinhof MS.--S̆afarik and Palacký--The Grünberg MS.--The controversy about these MSS.--Palacký’s History--The discovery of ancient peasant art--Later controversies.
LIBUS̆A’S BATH JUST BELOW THE VYS̆EHRAD 9
CYRIL AND METHODIUS, FROM THE WINDOW OF A CHURCH IN CAROLINEN-THAL 13
CHURCH BUILT BY ST. ADALBERT AT PRACHATICE 31
RADNICE BRNE: OLD DOOR OF TOWN COUNCIL HOUSE OF BRÜNN 73
JÍHLAVA (IGLAU), THE GREAT MINING CENTRE IN MORAVIA 77
CATHEDRAL OF OLMÜTZ ON SITE OF CASTLE WHERE WENCESLAUS III. WAS MURDERED 117
LIKENESS TAKEN FROM CHAPEL IN CARLSTEIN 131
MAPS SHOWING GROWTH OF PRAGUE UNDER CHARLES IV. 138, 139
STATUE OF CHARLES IV. NEAR HIS BRIDGE IN PRAGUE 152
KRUMOV, ONE OF THE CHIEF SEATS OF THE ROSENBERGS 169
HUSINEC, SHOWING COTTAGE WHERE HUS WAS BORN 176
THE GREAT RING OF PRAGUE. SCENE OF MURDER OF THE OPPONENTS OF THE INDULGENCE 201