AUSTRIA; CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, CHARACTER AND COSTUMES OF THE PEOPLE OF THAT EMPIRE. On turning over the pages of this work, some readers may possibly be surprised to find that so large a proportion of the engravings belong to one of the countries composing the Austrian empire. When, however, it is considered that a high degree of civilization tends to assimilate the manners, amusements, and dress of the great mass of the inhabitants of those countries in which it prevails; and that the people of the German states of this empire are scarcely, if at all surpassed in that respect by any nation in Europe; it will be evident that they must exhibit fewer of those pecul…
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