Excerpt from Peasant Art in Austria and Hungary N O fine line of demarcation can be drawn to indicate where the peasant art of one nation begins and another ends; yet the practised eye soon learns to differentiate, for though there are certain similarities there are at the same time wide and distinct divergencies. The motive of a design may be the same, but the methods of carrying it out may be various. This variation is due to subconscious racial instinct. There is, moreover, an involuntary personal note which distinguishes the objects made by the peasants of one and the same race, this being particularly the case in the Slav group. 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.