If you wish to gain correct
information, I refer you to Mr. Riis, author of "How the
Other Half Lives." Also to Dr. Hall, minister of the
Presbyterian Church. They have both been to Austria several
times, and know a great deal about the Czechs. Hoping you
will consider the matter, I remain yours, A.B. BAZATA.
NEW YORK CITY, October 18th, 1897.
DEAR FRIEND:
We were very pleased to receive your letter.
You have evidently misunderstood the article in question, and also
misquoted it.
If you will look back at page 1,390 you will see that we do not say the
Bohemians are an unruly people, but that they are wild and quickly
irritated--information which you can easily verify for yourself. We had
no intention of making any disparaging remarks about the race. We merely
stated facts which are so well known in Europe that they have become
proverbs.
In reference to the Czech language we must also differ with you. Your
argument that you have friends who speak the language does not strike us
as very sound. There are numbers of Europeans who have learned Chinese,
but that does not alter the fact that Chinese is an abnormally difficult
tongue.
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