'The author has a pleasing style anda fluency of narrative, coupled with refreshing humour which some-Umes reminds the reader of adventures of "Three men on the 'Hummel". Whilst the book' tells, with commendable thoroughness, that a stranger to the country may like to know of Hungary, it is not, by any means, a guide book, but the story of one who has come, has seen and hag been conquered. Mr. Brophy takes the reader from the founding of the Kingdom of Hungary in A.D. 296 right up to the autumn of 1636 history, polities, art, Iiterature, drama, music and last, but very portant, food and drink, He has had excellent guides and has himself very clear conceptions of the various phases of Hungarian life. His summing up of the political situation is exact bul, as a Hungarian, one is not inclined to agree with him, that the propaganda of the "heart-breaking maps™ is futile and that because "she (Hungary) has lost much, she Is not likely, to become rich and' powerful again", That is, we hope. taking too much ' for granted as is also the assumption that "to be completely Hungarian is to be happy, for sorrows turned by art into music and poetry acquire their own anodyne" Nevertheless, a" Hungarian reading Mr. Brophy's book and seeing himself and his country with eyes other than his own or that of his kin, gains' the conviction, that the words of the rear patriot, Count Stephen Sze-chen!, "Hungary was nol, but will be" are as true to-day as hey were hundred years ago when they were first spoken and, for' this, not, only "the 54,000 Hungarians. in Budapest who speak, read und write English" and to whom Mr. Brophy dedicated hhis book, but the entire Hungarian nation owe a debt of gratitude to the author. "As for Honk, if she really comes. to life, some day, Hungary will surely lose her to Mr. Brophy which, after all, is no' more than his Kindly Trish-Londoner deserves. One word of comfort the reader who may—no, who surely will—fall in love with her, Tanka has ihe thousands of charming "sisters Hungary, a fact of which all who so wish may convince themselves.
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