AUSTRIA.
WOMEN of SLAVONIA.
AUSTRIA;
CONTAINING
A DESCRIPTION
OF THE
MANNERS, CUSTOMS, CHARACTER AND
COSTUMES OF THE PEOPLE OF THAT EMPIRE.
ILLUSTRATED BY
TWELVE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS.
The proper study of mankind is man.—Pope.
Philadelphia:
PUBLISHED BY C. S. WILLIAMS.
W. Brown, Printer.
1828.
PREFACE.
On turning over the pages of this work, some readers may possibly besurprised to find that so large a proportion of the engravings belongto one of the countries composing the Austrian empire. When, however,it is considered that a high degree of civilization tends toassimilate the manners, amusements, and dress of the great mass of theinhabitants of those countries in which it prevails; and that thepeople of the German states of this empire are scarcely, if at allsurpassed in that respect by any nation in Europe; it will be evidentthat they must exhibit fewer of those peculiar characteristics whichit is the object of this work to collect and delineate.
Hungary stands in a very different predicament. Peopled by tribesbelonging to many different nations, whose distinctive habits,manners, and prejudices have not been melted down by refinement andcultivation, it affords much more ample materials for the pencil thanAustria, properly so called. For this reason, by far the greater partof the embellishments have been selected from among the singular,picturesque and romantic costumes of that kingdom and its dependantprovinces.
CONTENTS.
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | Provinces of the Austrian Empire—Their Extent and Population | 1 |
| II. | Of the different Nations of the Austrian Dominions—The Jews—The Germans—The Slavonians, including the Bohemians—The Slowacks—The Wendes and the Rascians of Illyria—The Magyares or Hungarians—The Walachians—The Zingares or Gipsies—The Armenians—The Greeks, Turks, &c. | 2 |
| III. | Religions—Roman Catholics—Greek Church—Armenians—Protestants—Socinians—Jews—Mahometans | 9 |
| IV. | Character of the People of Austria | 12 |
| AUSTRIA, LOWER AND UPPER. | ||
| V. | Inhabitants of Lower Austria—Manners of the People of Vienna—Amusements—Houses—Population and Mortality—Shops—Paved Streets—The Fire-Watch—Costumes of Upper Austria | 16 |
| STYRIA. | ||
| VI. | Costume of the Inhabitants—The Johannæum at Grätz | 26 |
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