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# Czechoslovak fairy tales

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Zloboha in Dobrunka’s Clothes
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RETOLD BY PARKER FILLMORE
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS BY JAN MATULKA
NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY PARKER FILLMORE
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY. N. J.
To MISS MARJORIE RAHLSON
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# Czechoslovak fairy tales/Note

NOTE
This rendering of some of the old Czechoslovak tales is not offered as a literal translation or a scholarly translation. I have retold the stories in a way that I hope will please American children. I have tried hard to keep the flavor of the originals but have taken the liberty of a short cut here and an elaboration there wherever these have seemed to me to make the English version clearer and more interesting.
I have gone to Czech, Slovakian, and Moravian sources. All these stories appear in many versions in the different folklore collections made by such native writers as Erben, Nemcova, Dobsinsky, Rimavsky, Benes-Trebizsky, Kulda. They represent the folk-tale in all stages of its development from the bald narrative of The Bird with the Golden Gizzard which Kulda reports with phonographic exactness, to Nemcova’s more elaborate tale, Prince Bayaya, which is really a mosaic of two or three simpler stories. I have included Katcha and the Devil for the sake of its keen humor, which is particularly Czech in character; The Betrothal Gifts to show how a story common to other countries is made most charmingly local by giving it a local ​background; The Three Golden Hairs to contrast it with a famous German variant which it seems to me is much inferior to the Slavic version; and several fine stories of the prince gone off on adventures which in common with the folk-tales of all Europe show a strong Oriental influence.
In the transliteration of proper names I have not followed consistently any one method, but for each individual name have made what seemed to be the best selection from the various possible spellings. Until transliteration from the Slavic languages has become standardized this, I am sure, is permissible and even advisable.
In the preparation of this volume I have made heavy draughts upon the scholarship and patience of my Czech friends, Mrs. Jan Matulka and Mr. Vladimir Jelinek. I beg them to accept my thanks. I am also deeply grateful to Mr. A. B. Koukol, who did me the favor of reading the final sheets. Lastly I wish to express my appreciation of the Webster Branch of the New York Public Library, which has gathered together what is probably the most complete collection of Czechoslovak literature in America, and one particularly rich in folklore and children’s books.
P. F.
August, 1919
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Octavius 26.

​26. Octavius Rufus was a friend of the younger Pliny, who addresses two letters to him, in which he presses Octavius to publish the poems he had composed. (Plin. Ep. i. 7, ii. 10.) In another letter (ix. 38) Pliny praises a work of one Rufus, who may, perhaps, be the same as this Octavius Rufus.
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Octavius 21.

​21. P. Octavius, a noted epicure in the reign of Tiberius, who outbid even Apicius in the sum which he gave for a mullet that Tiberius had ordered to be sold. (Senec. Epist. 95.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Octavius 22.

​22. Octavius Graecinus, one of the generals of Sertorius, in Spain, distinguished himself in the first battle fought between Pompey and Sertorius, near the town of Lauron, b. c. 76. He afterwards joined the conspiracy of M. Perperna, by which Sertorius perished, b. c. 72. (Frontin. Strat. ii. 5. § 31 ; Plut. Sert. 26.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Octavius 20.

​20. L. Octavius, detected in adultery by C. Memmius, and punished by him. (Val. Max. vi. 1. § 13.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Octavius Fronto

​Octa'vius Fronto. [Fronto.]
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Octavius 25.

​25. Ser. Octavius Laenas Pontianus, consul with M. Antonius Rufinus, in the reign of Hadrian, a. d. 131. (Fasti.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Octavius 23.

​23. M. Octavius Laenas Curtianus, one of the distinguished men who supplicated the judges on behalf of M. Scaurus, b. c. 54, (Ascon. in Scaur. p. 29, ed. Orelli.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Octavius 24.

​24. C. Octavius Laenas, curator of the aquaeducts in Rome, in the reigns of Tiberius and Caligula from a. d. 34 to a. d. 38. (Frontin. Aquaed. § 102.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Octavius Herennius

​Octa'vius Here'nnius. [Herennius].
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Oarses

OARSES. [Arses.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Addington, Henry Unwin

​ADDINGTON, HENRY UNWIN (1790–1870), permanent under-secretary for foreign affairs, was the son of the Right Hon. John Addington, brother of the first Lord Sidmouth, and was born 24 March 1790. He was educated at Winchester school, and entered the Foreign Office in January 1807. After serving on various diplomatic missions he in 1814 became secretary of legation to Switzerland, and was afterwards transferred successively to Copenhagen and Washington. Though he retired from active service on a pension in 1826, his experience was taken advantage of on several occasions as a plenipotentiary: in 1826 during the negotiations with the United States in London, in 1828 at the diet of Frankfort, and from 1829 to 1833 at Madrid. From 1842 to 1854 he acted as permanent under-secretary of state for foreign affairs, and on his retirement from that office he was sworn a privy councillor. He died 6 March 1870.
T. F. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Addison, John (fl.1538)

​ADDISON, JOHN, D.D. (fl. 1538), divine, a native of the diocese of York, was admitted to a fellowship at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in 1505, and graduated B.D. in 1519, and D.D. in 1523. He became ​chaplain to Fisher, bishop of Rochester, and in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Henry VIII he was attainted by parliament of misprision of treason for concealment of the pretended revelations of Elizabeth Barton, the ‘Holy Maid of Kent,’ and it was enacted that he should lose his spiritual promotions from 20 March 1533–4.
Dr. Addison superintended the publication of Bishop Fisher's ‘Assertionis Lutheranæ Confutatio,’ 1523, and had a grant from the king of the sole printing of it for three years. In or about 1538 he wrote a book in support of the pope's supremacy over all bishops, to which a reply was made by Cuthbert Tunstal, bishop of Durham, and John Stokesly, bishop of London.
[Lewis's Life of Bishop Fisher, i. 204, ii. 113, 348, 351, 405; Cooper's Athenæ Cantab. i. 68; Calendars of State Papers.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Addenbrooke, John

​ADDENBROOKE, JOHN (1680–1719), founder of the hospital which bears his name at Cambridge, was born in 1680 at Swinford Regis in Staffordshire. He was educated at Catharine Hall, Cambridge, graduated B.A. 1701, M.A. 1705, and was elected a fellow of the college. In 1706 he was admitted an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians, and took a M.D. degree at Cambridge in 1712. Of his practice nothing is known. In 1714 Dr. Addenbrooke published ‘A Short Essay upon Freethinking.’ He praises Bentley's reply to Collins, and gives as his reason for joining in the controversy that freethinkers are so set against clergymen that they may care more for what a layman says. A man may think as freely, he says, who believes a proposition as one who does not. Two things are essential to true freethinking—absence of prejudice and the full exertion of abilities of thought. The understanding may be distempered, and is so more often than the body. Hence no man can determine the guilt of another in having erroneous opinions. These are the chief points of Addenbrooke's rather indefinite essay. He died in 1719, and bequeathed about 4,000l. ‘to erect and maintain a small physical hospital’ at Cambridge, a foundation which has since been of the ​greatest service to the study of physic in that university. There is a tablet to his memory in the chapel of St. Catharine's.
N. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Addison, John (1766?-1844)

1904 Errata appended.
​ADDISON, JOHN (1766?–1844), composer and performer on the double bass, was the son of a village mechanic, and as a child showed considerable musical capability, learning to play on the flageolet, flute, bassoon, and violin. He became member of the Royal Society of Musicians 7 Oct. 1753 (Records of Royal Soc. of Musicians). He married, about 1793, an orphan ward of his parents, Miss Willems, who was a niece of the bass singer Reinhold, and after her marriage sang herself with success at Vauxhall. She soon afterwards obtained an engagement at Liverpool, where her husband adopted the musical profession, playing first violoncello and then double bass in the orchestra. The Addisons then went to Dublin, and in 1796 Mrs. Addison appeared at Covent Garden in ‘Love in a Village.’ In 1797 they went to Bath, and then to Dublin and Manchester, where John Addison for a time abandoned music for mercantile speculations which resulted in the loss of a considerable sum. Resuming his original career, he made himself known by composing several now forgotten operas for Covent Garden and the Lyceum, the most successful of which were the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ (1805) and the ‘Russian Impostor’ (1809). He played the double bass for many years at the opera, and at the Ancient and other concerts, besides achieving some success as a teacher of singing. He died at Camden Town 30 Jan. 1844.
[ Grove's Dictionary of Music, i. 30; Musical Examiner for 10 Feb. 1844; The Georgian Era (1834), iii. 530; Gent. Mag. 1844.]
W. B. S.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.3 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Addison, Charles Greenstreet

​ADDISON, CHARLES GREENSTREET (d. 1866), legal writer, was the son of W. Dering Addison, of Maidstone. In 1838 he published ‘Damascus and Palmyra,’ descriptive of an eastern journey. He afterwards wrote a ‘History of the Knight Templars,’ the first two editions of which appeared in 1842 and a third in 1852. In 1843 he published another historical work on the Temple Church. He was elected to the bar in 1842, joined the home circuit, and was a revising barrister for Kent. In 1848 he married Frances Octavia, twelfth child of the Honourable James Wolfe Murray, Lord Cringletie, by whom he left seven children. He is best known as the author of two legal text-books of some reputation, a ‘Treatise on the Law of Contracts,’ 1845, and ‘Wrongs and their Remedies, a Treatise on the Law of Torts,’ 1860, which have gone through several editions in England and America.
[Law Times, March 10, 1866.]
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Antonius 8.

​8. M. Antonius, the orator, was born b.c. 143. (Cic. Brut. 43.) He was quaestor in 113, and praetor in 104, and received the province of Cilicia with the title of proconsul in order to prosecute the war against the pirates. In consequence of his successes he obtained a triumph in 102. (Plut. Pomp. 24; Fast. Triumph.) He was consul in 99 with A. Albinus [see Albinus, No. 22], and distinguished himself by resisting the attempts of Saturninus and his party, especially an agrarian law of the tribune Sex. Titius. He was censor in 97, and, while censor, was accused of bribery by M. Duronius, but was acquitted. He commanded in the Marsic war a part of the Roman army. Antonius belonged to the aristocratical party, and espoused Sulla's side in the first civil war. He was in consequence put to death by Marius and Cinna when they obtained possession of Rome in 87. He was in the city at the time, and the soldiers sent to murder him hesitated to do their errand through the moving eloquence of the orator, till their commander, P. Annius, cut off his head and carried it to Marius, who had it erected on the Rostra.
Antonius is frequently spoken of by Cicero as one of the greatest of the Roman orators. He is introduced as one of the speakers in Cicero's De Oratore, together with his celebrated contemporary L. Crassus. From the part which he takes in the dialogue, it would appear that his style of eloquence was natural and unartificial, distinguished by strength and energy rather than by finish and polish. He wrote a work de Ratione Dicendi, which is referred to by Cicero (de Orat. i. 21) and Quintilian (iii. 6. § 45), but neither it nor any of his orations has come down to us. His chief orations were, 1. A defence of himself, when accused of incest with a vestal virgin, b.c. 113. (Val. Max. iii. 7. § 9, vi. 8. § 1; Liv. Epit. 63; Ascon. ad Cic. Milon. c. 12; Oros. v. 15.) 2. A speech against Cn. Papirius Carbo, b.c. 111, who had been defeated by the Cimbri in 113. (Appul. de Mag. p. 316, ed. Oudend.) 3. An oration against Sex. Titius, tribune of the plebs, b.c. 99. (Cic. de Orat. ii. 11, pro Rabir. perd. 9.) 4. A defence of M'. Aquillius, accused of extortion in the government of Sicily, about b.c. 99. This was the most celebrated of his orations. (Cic. Brut. 62, de Off. ii. 14, pro Flacco, 39, de Orat. ii. 28, 47, in Verr. v. 1; Liv. Epit. 70.) 5. A defence ​of himself when accused of bribery by Duronius. (Cic. de Orat. ii. 68.) 6. A defence of Norbanus, who was accused of having caused the destruction of a Roman army by the Cimbri through carelessness. (Cic. de Orat. ii. 25, 39, 40, 48.)
(Orelli, Onomasticon Tullianum; Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. i, p. 58, &c.; Ellendt, Proleg. ad Cic. Brut.; Meyer, Orat. Rom. Fragm. p. 139, &c.; Westermann, Geschichte der Römischen Beredtsamkeit, §§ 46—48.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Antonius 10.

​10. C. Antonius M. f. C. n., surnamed Hybrida (Plin. H. N. viii. 53. s. 79, according to Drumann, Gesch. Roms, i. p. 531, because he was a homo semiferus, the friend of Catiline and the plunderer of Macedonia), was the second son of Antonius, the orator [No. 8], and the uncle of the triumvir [No. 12]. He accompanied Sulla in his war against Mithridates, and on Sulla's return to Rome, b. c. 83, was left behind in Greece with part of the cavalry and plundered the country. He was subsequently accused for his oppression of Greece by Julius Caesar (76). Six years afterwards (70), he was expelled the senate by the censors for plundering the allies and wasting his property, but was soon after readmitted. He celebrated his aedileship with extraordinary splendour. In his praetorship (65) and consulship (63) he had Cicero as his colleague. According to most accounts Antony was one of Catiline's conspirators, and his well-known extravagance and rapacity seem to render this probable. Cicero gained him over to his side by promising him the rich province of Macedonia, in which he would have a better opportunity of amassing wealth than in the other consular province of Gaul. Antony had to lead an army against Catiline, but unwilling to fight against his former friend, he gave the command on the day of battle to his legate, M. Petreius.
At the conclusion of the war Antony went into his province, which he plundered so shamefully, that his recall was proposed in the senate in the beginning of 61. Cicero defended him; and it was currently reported at Rome that Cicero had given up the province to Antony on the secret understanding, that the latter should give him part of the plunder. Antony said the same himself; and Cicero's conduct in defending him in the senate, and also when he was brought to trial subsequently, strengthened the suspicion. In 60, Antony was succeeded in the province by Octavius, the father of Augustus, and on his return to Rome was accused in 59 both of taking part in Catiline's conspiracy and of extortion in his province. He was defended by Cicero, but was notwithstanding condemned on both charges, and retired to the island of Cephallenia, which he rendered subject to him, as if it were his own; he even commenced building a city in it. (Strab. x. p. 455.) He was subsequently recalled, probably by Caesar, but at what time is uncertain. We know that he was in Rome at the beginning of 44 (Cic. Philipp. ii. 38), and he probably did not long survive Caesar. (For the ancient authorities, see Orelli's Onomasticon Tull. and Drumann's Geschichte Roms, i. p. 31.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Antonius 11.

​11. Antonia. [Antonia, No. 1.]
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Antonius 13.

​13. C. Antonius M. f. M. n., the second son of M. Antonius Creticus [No. 9], and the brother of the triumvir, was Julius Caesar's legate in 49, and city praetor in 44, when his elder brother was consul, and his younger tribune of the plebs. In the same year, he received the province of Macedonia, where, after an unsuccessful contest, he fell into the hands of M. Brutus in 43. Brutus kept him as a prisoner for some time, but put him to death at the beginning of 42, chiefly at the instigation of Hortensius, to revenge the murder of Cicero. (Orelli's Onomast. ; 'Drumann's Gesch. Roms, i. p. 523, &c.) The following coin of C. Antonius must have been struck after he had been appointed to the government of Macedonia with the title of proconsul. The female head is supposed to represent the genius of Macedonia ; the cap on the head is the causia, which frequently appears on the Macedonian coins. (Dict. of Ant. s. v. Causia; Eckhel, vol. vi p. 41.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Antonius 9.

​9. M. Antonius M. f. C. n. Creticus, son of the preceding and father of the Triumvir, was praetor in b. c. 75, and obtained in 74, through the influence of P. Cethegus and the consul Cotta, the command of the fleet and all the coasts of the Mediterranean, in order to clear the sea of pirates. But Antonius was avaricious and greedy, and misused his power to plunder the provinces, and especially Sicily. He did not succeed either in the object for which he had been appointed. An attack which he made upon Crete, although he was assisted by the Byzantines and the other allies, entirely failed; the greater part of his fleet was destroyed; and he probably saved himself only by an ignominious treaty. He shortly after died in Crete, and was called Creticus in derision. Sallust (Hist. lib. iii.) described him as "perdundae pecuniae genitus, et vacuus a curis nisi instantibus." He was married twice; first, to Numitoria, who had no children (Cic. Philipp. iii. 6), and afterwards to Julia. (Plut. Ant. i. 2; Cic. Div. in Caecil. 17, in Verr. ii. 3, iii. 91; Pseudo-Ascon. in Div. p. 122, in Verr. pp. 176, 206, ed. Orelli; Vell. Pat. ii. 31; Appian, Sic. 6 ; Lactant. Inst. i. 11. § 32; Tac. Ann. xii. 62.)
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Baker, Pacificus

​BAKER, PACIFICUS (1695–1774), Franciscan friar, discharged with credit the offices of procurator and definitor of his order, and was twice elected provincial of the English province, first in 1761 and secondly in 1770. He appears to have been attached to the Sardinian chapel in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and he certainly attended at the execution of Lord Lovat, 9 April 1747. His death occurred in London 16 March 1774. ​Baker wrote:
* 'The Devout Christian's Companion for Holy Days,' London, 1757, 12mo.
* 'Holy Altar and Sacrifice explained in some familiar dialogues on the Mass,' London, 1768, 12mo, being an abridgment of F. A. Mason's 'Liturgical Discourse on the Mass.'
* 'A Lenten Monitor to Christians, in pious thoughts on the Gospels for every day in Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Easter Tuesday, inclusive,' third edition, London, 1769, 12mo; again London, 1827, 8vo.
* 'The Christian Advent,' 1782.
* 'Sundays kept holy; in moral reflections on the Gospels for the Sundays from Easter to Advent. Being a supplement to the Christian Advent and Lenten Monitor,' second edition, London, 1772, 12mo.
* 'The Devout Communicant,' London, 1813, 12mo.
* 'Essay on the Cord of St. Francis.'
* 'Scripture Antiquity.'
* 'Meditations on the Lord's Prayer,' from the French.
Dr. Oliver says: 'Without much originality all these works are remarkable for unction, solidity, and moderation; but we wish the style was less diffuse and redundant of words.'
[Oliver's History of the Catholic Religion in Cornwall, &c., 543, 571; Cat. of Printed Books in Brit. Mus.]
T. C.