HUNGARIAN SKETCHES
IN
PEACE AND WAR.
FROM THE HUNGARIAN OF
MORITZ JÓKAI.
WITH PREFATORY NOTICE BY
EMERIC SZABAD,
Author of "Hungary Past and Present."
EDINBURGH: THOMAS CONSTABLE AND CO.
HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO., LONDON.
JAMES M'GLASHAN, DUBLIN.
MDCCCLIV.
CONSTABLE'S MISCELLANY
OF
FOREIGN LITERATURE.
VOL. I.
EDINBURGH: THOMAS CONSTABLE AND CO.
HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO., LONDON.
JAMES M'GLASHAN, DUBLIN.
MDCCCLIV.
EDINBURGH: T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY.
CONTENTS.
 PAGE
Preface.v
Dear Relations.1
The Bardy Family.87
Crazy Marcsa.133
Comorn.151
Mor Perczel.167
Gergely Sonkolyi.173
The Unlucky Weathercock.205
The Two Brides.213
The Brewer.237
The Szekely Mother.279
A Ball.295
[Pg v]
PREFACE.
Jokai is one of the most popular of the Hungarian prose writers offiction that sprang up a few years before the late war. His wit,flowing style, and vivid descriptions of Hungarian life as it is,joined to a rich fancy and great intensity of feeling, soon made him afavourite with Hungarian readers.
Among the earlier of his productions, those best known are a novelentitled, "The Common Days," and a collection of minor tales,published under the title of "Wild Flowers."
The present volume has been written for the most part since the latememorable national movement, and embodies descriptions of several ofthe direst scenes in the civil war which devastated Hungary from theyear 1848 to 1850.
Most of the Hungarian literati were, at the close of the war, eitherroaming in foreign countries, or wandering in disguise through theirnative land; and the field of literature for a long time threatened toremain neglected and barren—a monument of national grief anddesolation! Those patriotic writers who had for years wielded the penwith the nobl                        
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