. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. til© Poles the vServians, in a majorityof the proper vSlavonians, and in theCroatians. They are tolerably well pre-served in the Poles. The latter may beregarded as the finest physical specimensof the Slavic race. They are generallytaller than the average,
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. til© Poles the vServians, in a majorityof the proper vSlavonians, and in theCroatians. They are tolerably well pre-served in the Poles. The latter may beregarded as the finest physical specimensof the Slavic race. They are generallytaller than the average, and are sym-metrically formed. The men have highheads, large brains, and are bony andstrong, though well proportioned. Thewomen, especially those of the up-per classes, are symmetrical, graceful,beautiful. Than these no ladies ofEurope have a more commanding, andmany times queenly air. The com-plexion is generallv brunette, but thePoles, both men and women, share thevariety of the Russians, who, toward thenorth, become fair-complexioned andhave blue eves. As we have said, it isimpossible to generalize in the descrip-tion of so vast a race of people, extend-ino- over so o-reat an area of continent,and developed under such varying con-ditions of tribal and national life. THE SLA TS.— WENDS. 185 Chaf-tek CI.—\Vp::Ni3is and OLLOWING the clueof language we findtliat the Lekh, or Pol-ish, vStem reaches fur-ther west than thecountry of the Poles,and presents as its ex-treme development the people calledWends. Modern ethnology has sug-gested the name of Slovenes, or Sorbs,for these people, but this designativehashardly yet obtained full currency. InPlace of the ^uy event the name is not Wends; ethnic important as the fact. names sug- -t gested. The fact reveals to us a people of the Slavic race, making their?way westward from the borders of Po-land in the earlier centuries of our era,and finally establishing themselves inthe country between the headwaters ofthe Spree and
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