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Excerpt from Austria
This by way of reflection on the present. The past speaks for itself in the following pages. In dealing with my theme I had two alternatives before me - either to treat of the principal historical events in proportion to their relative importance, or to give a succinct but unbroken record of the history of Austria as connected with the Imperial House. The former would have been a far more grateful task. On the other hand, the partly didactic character of this series and the almost incredible fact that no consecutive history of Austria such as this is exists in any language led me to forego the idea. Those who may desire to inform themselves more fully on such epoch-making phases of Austrian history as the struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism or the Seven Years' War, I'would refer to existing works of a more special character, Of which the number is legion. For more detailed treatment of these features of political Austria I venture to refer the reader to my earlier work, The Realm Of the Habsburgs. London: W. Heinemann. Leipzig: Tauchnitz Edition of British Authors. It will be observed that in the spelling of place names in general the local custom has been followed, but the better known localities have been indicated by the English equivalents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
