Karel Domin

“ We have no doubt that the publishers of the United States of America and of Great Britain will in the near future see to satisfying the interest and curiosity of their public in this regard, and if we have decided to publish a few selections of the works of our authors in translation, we are led not so much by the wish to call attention to certain typically Czech authors as by the desire to show that unobserved by the world our writers could encompass the world and its highest ideals in their scope. ”

“ Comparatively very little of Czech and Slovak literature is known to the British and American public, and our English speaking visitors have often complained of their inability to procure works of our fiction in translation. ”