We have suppressed two chapters of this tale, both for want of space, and because they are unpleasantly full of horrors. They are chiefly occupied with the vengeance wreaked by George, who is frightfully mutilated in the course of the war, upon the Serbs, and especially upon his deadly foe Basil; and include an account of the capture by assault, and subsequent conflagration, of the town of St Thomas. They are in no way essential to heighten or complete the interest of those we have given; and _L'Envoy_ is as appropriately placed at the end of the third chapter as at the close of the fifth. The plot of the whole tale, if such it may be called, is quite unimportant; but there is an originality and a wild vigour in many of the scenes, which justify, in combination with other German translations from the Magyar that have lately reached us, an anticipation of yet better things from the present generation of Hungarian poets and novelists. FOOTNOTES: [19] _Schlachtfelderblüthen aus Ungarn. Novellen nach wahren Kriegs-Scenen._ Leipzig und Pesth, 1850. London: Williams and Norgate. [20] See Schlesinger's _War in Hungary_, (English version,) vol. ii. p. 18-30, for a most interesting anecdotical account of this _beau ideal_ of light horsemen. [21] _War in Hungary_, i. 206-7. [22] Ibid. ii. 20. [23] "Follow me!" [24] The notes issued from Kossuth's bank-note press were, of course, worthless when the revolution was suppressed. [25] The name of Raitzen is synonymous with Serbs. "Arsenius Czernojewic, under Leopold I., transplanted a large colony of Serbs from the ancient Rascia to Hungary. Hence the name Razen, Raczen, Raitzen.