31 JULY 1915, Page 14

I To THE EDITOR OF THE "Sr ZeTATOn."1 Six,—I am

sorry to disillusion your correspondent " W. H.," but history does not know anything about a Wratislas dynasty. Several Kings of the name of Wladislaw or Wladislaus have sat on the thrones of Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland at various periods, but to the best of my belief the family of Bohemian (Czech) nobles bearing the name of Wratislaw were not closely related to any of the Lokietek, Jagello, or Wasa dynasties. A young Baron Wratislaw was a member of an Embassy sent by the Emperor of Germany to Sultan Murad M. in 1591, and left us a highly interesting account of his adventurous journey to and from the Turkish capital and his dire captivity there. This account has been translated from the original Bohemian into English and published by the late Rev. A. H. Wratislaw. Then there was, and probably still is, the family of Counts Wratislaw-Mitrovie, a member of which, Count Rudolf, was a highly accomplished Romany scholar, who published in 1868 a book in German on the gypsies of Austria. Whenever he and the late Archduke Joseph, the author of a Romany grammar in Hungarian, met they invariably talked Romany, which they both spoke quite