The Slavs of the war zone
By: by the Right Hon. W.F. Bailey, C.B.
Edition: New and cheaper ed.
Publisher: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.
Published: 1917
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Slavs; Poland -- Description and travel; Austria -- Description and travel; Balkan Peninsula -- Description and travel
Description: xii p., 1 l., 266 p. front., plates. 20 cm.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the First Edition … v; title: Pronunciation of Czech, Serb, Croat, Polish (note) … vii; title: Contents … ix; title: List of Illustrations … xiii; title: ◦; title: INTRODUCTION … 1; title: Historical   characteristics of Teuton and Slav—Northern and Southern Slavs—Attitude of Germany towards its non-Teutonic population, and towards Russia—Germanic influence in Russian Government—The partition of Poland—Power of dynastic influence—Race composition of Austria Hungary— Its policy towards the Little, or Red, Russians (Ruthenes) —The Poles—The Czechs of Bohemia—Prague—The Slovaks— Southern Slavs:  Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, and Bosnians—Purport of the present work; title: ◦; title: I. WHERE TWO EMPIRES MEET … 11; title: Podolia—Kamenets, its ancient government town—The death of Pan Michael—Scene on Fair day—Mail carts and droshkies— Soldiers—Gipsies—The drive from Kamenets to Husiatyn—A hail shower on the Steppes—A peasant exodus—Husiatyn— The Askenazim Jew—The value of time in Podolia; title: ◦; title: II. LIFE IN EASTERN GALICIA … 21; title: Train from Husiatyn to Lemberg (Lwow)—Towns on the route—Crowds at the stations—Typical villages—Galician roads— Interior of a village hut—Primitive agriculture—Slav women—Relation between the sexes—Modernity of Lwow—Evening in the streets—The paradoxy of Poland; title: ◦; title: III. THE VIRGIN OF CZENSTOCHOWA:  THE HEART OF POLAND … 34; title: The Holy Place of Poland—On the morning of a pilgrimage—Scene in the streets—Inhabitants and pilgrims—The Holy Place— The oldest picture in the Christian world—Ceremony in the church—Desecration of the shrine—Czar’s proclamation of universal Slav liberty—How a Polish village meets the German invaders; title: ◦; title: IV. POLISH   MEMORIES … 45; title: An exile—Polish landscape before the war—A typical village—Visiting en masse—Polish industrial campaign—A modern nobleman and his household—A “Tartar raid”—The flight before the invaders; title: ◦; title: V. AMONG THE CZECHS OF BOHEMIA … 57; title: The founding of Prague—Jan Huss, and what he stood for—Czech progress—The Old Town and the New—Czech music—Self-help the key to emancipation in Bohemia—The Cathedral—The Ghetto—Evening scenes—Race hatred as shown by a street accident—Night on the Sophia Island—Tsigane music—Midnight from the monastery of Strabow—War—The regiments that deserted; title: ◦; title: VI. SCENES   IN  THE  CAEPATHIANS:  LIFE AMONG THE SLOVAKS … 80; title: Summer in the Carpathians—The Gipsies—Slovaks—Village life —A cottage interior—Emigration and its consequences—A child’s funeral—A returned traveller—Marriage ceremonies— The coming of War; title: ◦; title: VII. VIENNA:  THE INDOLENT CAPITAL … 98; title: An Epicurean city—Evening in the streets—The submerged population—A typical room in the Slav quarter—Vienna in war time—Laissez faire, laissez aller—How German officers make themselves loved; title: ◦; title: VIII. BUDAPEST:  THE GAY CITY OF THE MAGYARS … 109; title: Spring scenes—The best view-point, and the worst—The Jews in possession—Magyar wedding dresses—Ancient  Buda—Cafés and cinemas—Music and the Gipsies—Daily life in Budapest— The empty palace and the murdered Queen; title: ◦; title: IX. SCENES IN FIUME, THE SEAPORT OF HUNGARY … 119; title: The town in summer—The pageant of its past—The surprising streets—Fiume in bygone days—Country folk—On the quays —The Castle of the Frangipani—A Slovene inn—The Uskoks— Music—A Slav legend of loveliness—Tsiganes—Night on the Adriatic—A fight in a café; title: ◦; title: X. CROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF THE KARST:  THE LAND OF THE PANDOURS … 147; title: The Karst—Ogulin—Serbs and Croats—The Pandours—Emigration—Sex relationship—Folk songs—Karlovac in war time— Austrian treatment of Southern Slavs; title: ◦; title: XI. CROATIA:  A LAND OF MANY COLOURS … 161; title: The province of Croatia-Slavonia—The Pandours and the Uskoks —Hungarian policy towards Croatia—The Patriarchal system— A typical country house—Feminine occupations—Love and marriage—Wedding customs—Religious fêtes—Death ceremonies—Professional beggars—Napoleon’s prescience; title: ◦; title: XII. BELGRADE:  THE GATEWAY TO THE EAST … 176; title: The “White City” and its situation—The Teratsia—Scene in the market-place—Typical visitors from the Balkan States—Serbian manners and customs—Afternoon in Topchider Park—The Kalemegdan gardens—Murder of Alexander and Draga—Panorama from the hill-top; title: ◦; title: XIII. LIFE IN THE BALKANS:  A SERBIAN CHRISTMAS … 188; title: Christmas Eve—“The Feast of the Dead”—Ak-Palanka—Serbian home life—Ceremonies Christian and pagan—Christmas morning—Service in the Church—The Priest—In the market-place—Dinner and dancing; title: ◦; title: XIV. SONG AND DANCE AMONG THE SERBS … 212; title: Serbian folk songs—A woman singer—Love songs—War songs— Serbian code of honour—The Horo, or war dance—“The women’s dance”; title: ◦; title: XV. SARAJEVO:  THE CITY OF THE GREAT WAR … 222; title: The night of June 29th, 1914—The Austrians in Sarajevo—The Slavonic quarter—In a night café—The coming shadow—The end of the Archduke; title: ◦; title: XVI. A NATION IN RETREAT:  SERBIA’S  AGONY, 1915 … 244; title: The peasants’ flight—The retreating army—The Red Cross—The last inhabitants—Night comes, and the German army; title: ◦; title: XVII. FROM A HILL IN BOSNIA:  AUTUMN, 1915 … 254; title: Mount Stephen—A hill of death—How Teutons treat their Slav subjects—Before the war—And now—“Righteous slaughter”—The Slav Eternal hope; title: ◦; title: Index … 263; title: Press Notices … [267-8]