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Title: Austria-Hungary
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
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Publisher: London A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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beenwarmed into animation in the desire to keep alivetheir national tongue within the Empire. Prague is a mediaeval town and one of the mostinteresting existing, in spite of some very unsatis-factory buildings dating from the seventeenth andeighteenth centuries. Though it has been again andagain the scene of conflict, there is still enoughremaining from the past to afford a rich feast to thelover of antiquities. The castle of Vysehead, builtof the stones of a still older fortress, stands highabove the city, and is a monumental chapter ofhistory in itself if properly studied. The town is onthe river Moldau, and overlooking this is the Hrad-cany Palace of the ancient kings, dating mainly fromthe fourth century, but since greatly rebuilt andadded to. The fine bridge of Charles IV., fourteenthcentury, has a high ornamental tower at one end,a very leviathan of its kind, rich in decorativeeffects, though simple in general style. The Cathe-dral of St. Vitus is only one of numerous religious
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PRAGUE • CARLS BRIDGE BOHEMIA AND OTHER LANDS 145 buildings well worth seeing. Many of the houses arequaint and irregular, but the modernisation of thetown, and the inevitable arrival of trams, has givena certain veneer which sits oddly on the ancientframework. Bohemia has produced many musicians, and atthe present day the leading professor Sevcik attractspupils from all over the world ; while Kubelik, withhis melodious violin, was a pupil at the conserva-toire and is the son of a Czech. The best-knownBohemian composer is Dvorak, and rather lessknown, but little inferior in merit, is Smetaud.Many other names might be added. Anton Dvorakwas born in 1841 at Nelahozaves and was the sonof an inn-keeper, and from the first was wild tofollow music as a career. He went to Prague, andas a mere boy kept himself by his violin, playing inorchestras. He married, and as a means of addingto his small earnings took pupils. He was veryenergetic, and turned out a multitude of composi-tions. At the a

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