It has been said that a simple Slavonic peasant can be enticed by his national songs from one end of the world to the other.

The delight which the Slavonic nations take in dancing seems to be equally great.

No other nation, it has been asserted, can compare with them in ardent devotion to this amusement.

Moreover, it is noteworthy that song and dance were in Poland--as they were of course originally everywhere--intimately united.

Heine gives a pretty description of the character of the Polish peasant:-- It cannot be denied [he writes] that the Polish peasant has often more head and heart than the German peasant in some districts.