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BOHEMIA UNDERHAPSBURG MISRULE
A Study of the Ideals and Aspirations of the Bohemian andSlovak Peoples, as they relate to and are affectedby the great European War
EDITED BY
THOMAS ČAPEK
Author of “Slovaks of Hungary,” etc.
New York Chicago Toronto
Fleming H. Revell Company
London and Edinburgh
Copyright, 1915, by
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
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Dedicated
To the Cause of
Bohemian-Slovak Freedom
Government of Thine affairs will again
revert to Thee, O Bohemian People!”
(In exile.)
PREFACE
The object of this volume is to make Bohemiaand her people better known to the English-speakingworld. The average Englishman’sand American’s knowledge of Bohemia isvery vague. It is only within recent years thatAnglo-American writers have begun to take adeeper interest in her people. Among the moreprominent students of Bohemian contemporary lifeshould be mentioned: Will S. Monroe, Emily G.Balch, and Herbert Adolphus Miller, in the UnitedStates; and A. R. Colquhoun, Richard J. Kelly,F. P. Marchant, James Baker, Wickham H. Steed,Charles Edmund Maurice, W. R. Morfill, and R.W. Seton-Watson in England. Count Lützow haswritten in English a number of works on Bohemianmatters.
While it is yet too early to foresee the preciseresults of the Great War, one may judge of comingevents by the shadows they cast before them. Aclose observer of the Austrian shadows is justifiedin thinking that the Bohemian people, so long suppressed,stand on the threshold of a new destiny.This destiny points to the restoration of their ancientfreedom. If the Allies win—and every loyal[8]son of the Land of Hus fervently wishes tha