Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians - Tapa blanda

British nation. Since the beginning of the twentieth century there have been two critical occasions1 the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria and the war against the Turks when we have had opportunities to note how British sympathies, even when apparently only platonic, can be of great practical importance for our nation. It is quite natural that we should desire to retain and if possible deepen and increase those sympathies. We are proud of our army, but we flatter ourselves that our nation may win sympathy arid respect by other than military features of its national character. We wish that our British friends should know our nation such as it is. We wish them to be acquainted with our national psychology. And nothing could give a better insight into the very soul of theS erbian nation than this book. The Serbians belong ethnologically to the great family of theS lavonic nations. They are first cousins to the Russians, Poles, Czechs; Slovaks, and pulgars, and they are brothers to the Croats andS lovenes. -S incethe Church has ceased to be the discordant and -disuniting element in the life of the nations, theO rthodox .S erbians and the Roman Catholic Croats ar-e practically one and the same people. But of allS lavonic nations theS erbians can legitimately claim to be the most poetical one. Their language is the richest and the most musical among all theS lavonic languages. The late Professor Morfill, a 1T his was written one month before an even more critical situation confronted theS erbian nation.
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