. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph low, sureEnglishman; here the hated Austrian button-holes theVenetian or the Magyar; here the Jew meets the Gentileon common ground; here Christianity encounters thehoary superstitions of the East, and makes a good thingout of them in cotton or grain. All costumes are seenhere, and all tongues are heard, the native Triestines con-tributing almost as much to the variety of parlance as theforeigners. In regard to language, says Cantu, thoughthe country is peopled by Slavonians, yet the Italian ton
. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph low, sureEnglishman; here the hated Austrian button-holes theVenetian or the Magyar; here the Jew meets the Gentileon common ground; here Christianity encounters thehoary superstitions of the East, and makes a good thingout of them in cotton or grain. All costumes are seenhere, and all tongues are heard, the native Triestines con-tributing almost as much to the variety of parlance as theforeigners. In regard to language, says Cantu, thoughthe country is peopled by Slavonians, yet the Italian tongueis spreading into the remotest villages where a few yearssince it was not understood. In the city it is the commonand familiar language ; the Slavonians of the North usethe German for the language of ceremony; those of theSouth, as well as the Israelites, the Italian; while theProtestants use the German, the Greeks the Hellenic andIllyric, the employes of the civil courts the Italian orthe German, the schools now German and now Italian,the bar and pulpit Italian. Most of the inhabitants, 228.
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