Présentation de l'éditeur
It is not my intention in these pages to discuss, except incidentally, the history and political problems of the Slav peoples who dwell where the great European War now rages. These subjects have been adequately dealt with by many well-known and wellequipped writers such as Mr. Seton-W atson, Mr. H. Wickham Steed and Professor Alison Phi Uips. My desire is to give a vivid and accurate account of the countries in which these Slav races dwell to give a description of their habits and customs :of how they hve at home, among their neighbours, and in their market-places; of their dress, their amusements and their festivals; of their music, their songs and their dances ;of their views of life, their Joys and their sorrows; of their po Htical, national and religious aspirations ;of how the great war found them and how it leaves them these people that Fate has made to be the shuttle-cocks of Empires. This is not a war book. It is an account of these Slav peoples as they were hving when the war came on them hke a blast from a burning fiery furnace, and how they fared in its awful presence. It is to be hoped that these pages may have some permanent value in enabling readers to envisage, to appreciate, to understand peoples perhaps httle known outside their own boundaries, yet who have been the proximate cause of the most tremendous upheaval that has taken place since mankind had a history. In the days of settlement after the war, these races will demand recognition. They who gave a name to depressed peoples all the world over will not be for ever the slaves of circumstance.
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