THE CZECHO-SLOVAK SINGERS.
ITo rue EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") his,—The singing of the Bohemian and MoraVian school- masters in England has electrified all hearers; but few of these will know the great part the town and village Khoo'. masters have played in Bohemia, in not only keeping alive the patriotic sense of intense love of the homeland (Tide demon muy? Where is my home? is the national air), but in elevating the whole race to individual action. Not a whining to the Government to do this or that, but to do it themselves, and by the poorest helping such institutions as the Sokol, and joining them, to prepare the whole race for self-government. Ono., coming down from old Trotsky, a mountain fortress, I met in the valley a cluster of children who were drawn up in bright dresses, and they greeted us with their village songs, and that schoolmaster in that remote spot knew local history and leved it, and imbued his children with that love. Having written on Bohemia since 1885, I know its wondrous developments; sue English can learn much from theeeeh. Their motto is "By work and learning we must raise our race."—I am. Sir. Le..
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