Austro-Hungarian Life in Town and Country #248040

But austria-hungary is also the meeting-place of longl'past ages and modern times. Side by side with all the scientific marvels of the present day, we meet at every step traces of the life of by-gone centuries. Time-worn cities, towns, and castles, picturesque costumes and curious national cus toms, all combine to carry us back from the prose of the twentieth century to the romance and poetry of an earlier age.