Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/slavnations00tuciuoft The Daily Telegraph War Books THE SLAV NATIONS * * * * * * Cloth Post 1/— The Daily Telegraph free net WAR BOOKS 1/3 each each HOW THE WAR BEGAN By W. L. COURTNEY, LL.D., and J. M. KENNEDY THE FLEETS AT WAR By ARCHIBALD HURD THE CAMPAIGN OF SEDAN By GEORGE HOOPER THE CAMPAIGN ROUND LIEGE By J. M. KENNEDY IN THE FIRING LINE By A. ST. JOHN ADCOCK GREAT BATTLES OF THE WORLD By STEPHEN CRANE BRITISH REGIMENTS AT THE FRONT THE RED CROSS IN WAR By Miss MARY FRANCES BILLINGTON FORTY YEARS AFTER The Story of the Franco-German War By H. C. BAILEY With an Introduction by W. L. COURTNEY, LL.D. A SCRAP OF PAPER By E. J. DILLON HOW THE NATIONS WAGED WAR By J. M. KENNEDY AIR-CRAFT IN WAR By S. ERIC BRUCE FAMOUS FIGHTS OF INDIAN NATIVE REGIMENTS By REGINALD HODDER THE FIGHTING RETREAT TO PARIS By ROGER INGPEN THE FIRST CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIAN POLAND By P. C. STANDEN THE BATTLES OF THE RIVERS By EDMUND DANE FROM HELIGOLAND TO KEELING ISLAND By ARCHIBALD HURD THE SLAV NATIONS By SRGJAN PL. TUCIC SUBMARINES, MINES AND TORPEDOES By A. S. DOMVILLE-FIFE WITH THE R.A.M.C. AT THE FRONT By E. C. VIVIAN MOTOR TRANSPORTS IN WAR By HORACE WYATT HACKING THROUGH BELGIUM By EDMUND DANE _OTHER VOLUMES IN PREPARATION_ PUBLISHED FOR THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BY HODDER & STOUGHTON, WARWICK SQUARE, LONDON, E.C. * * * * * * THE SLAV NATIONS by SRGJAN PL. TUCIĆ English Translation by Fanny S. Copeland Hodder and Stoughton London New York Toronto MCMXV CONTENTS. _PART I._—THE NORTHERN SLAVS. CHAPTER I. PAGE THE SLAV RACE 11 Slav Characteristics—Slav Power in the Past—The Decline—The Dawn? CHAPTER II. RUSSIA 20 I. Russian Landscape and the National Character—Rurik to Peter the Great—German Influence—The Russian Awakening. II. Siberia—White Russians—Little Russians—Great Russians—Cossacks—The People of the Sunflower—Made in Germany—The Reaction. CHAPTER III. RUSSIAN NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS 37 Russian Slavdom—The Mir—Stress and Famine—The Duma—Russian Literature—Gogol—Tolstoi—Dostoievski—Realistic Ideals—The Russian Soul. CHAPTER IV. POLAND AND BOHEMIA 50 I. The Contrast—National Character of the Poles—Our Lady of Csenstochova—Dancing Peasants—Galician Poles—Selfish Policy—Austria a Slav State.