[1] The above statistics are taken from the _Régi Magyar Könyvtár_. [2] We may mention, that Bessenyei was, to a certain extent, preceded by two amiable and cultivated writers; Baron Lawrence Orczy (1718-1789), and Count Gedeon Ráday (1713-1792). [3] No continental writer has described and analysed the social status of the continental peasant with so much charm and truth as has the late Wilhelm Riehl, the Justus Möser of our century. BIBLIOGRAPHY. For general and accurate information about Hungary: “_Pallas_” Encyclopædia (in Hungarian) in sixteen volumes, just (March, 1898) completed. History of Hungarian Literature: See the chapter at the end of the present work. In German there is the able work of Professor J. H. Schwicker (“_Geschichte der ungarischen Litteratur_,” Leipsic, 1889). In Italian we have the short history of G. A. Zigány, “_Letteratura Ungherese_” (Milan, 1892, one of Hoepli’s “Manuals.”) Selections from Hungarian poets: Paul Erdélyi, _A magyar költészet kincsesháza_ (Budapest, 1895). Complete Catalogues of Hungarian books since the invention of typography: Charles Szabó and Árpád Hellebrant “_Régi Magyar Könyvtár_” (1879-1896, 3 vols.), comprising the books printed down to 1711. Géza Petrik, _Bibliographia Hungariæ 1712-1860, catalogus librorum in Hungaria, et de rebus patriam nostram attingentibus extra Hungariam editorum_ (Budapest, 1888-1892), with subject and author’s indexes. Periodical Literature; index to Hungarian: Szinnyei József, “_Hazai és külföldi folyóiratok magyar tudományos repertoriuma_,” 3 vols. (1874-1885), two of which give the list of articles, both in Hungarian and foreign periodicals, on Hungarian history, and the third, articles on mathematical and natural sciences. This excellent work comprises even most of the political daily papers. Periodical devoted to the study of the history of Hungarian Literature: “_Irodalomtörténeti közlemények_,” edited first by Aladár Ballagi, and now by Aron Szilády (since 1891; full, well edited, with careful indexes). Literary biography: Joseph Szinnyei, the younger, “_Magyar irók élete és munkái_.” Most exhaustive, with complete bibliographies to each writer and his works, comprising even articles written in daily papers. (Budapest, since 1891, still unfinished). The Magyar Language: The most comprehensive work is by Professor Sigismund Simonyi, “_A magyar nyelv_” (2 vols., Budapest, 1889, 8vo). INDEX Abonyi, Louis. (Folk-Novelist), 241 Academy of Science, founded by Széchenyi and others, 112 its publications, 112 Acsády, Ignatius. (Historian), 253 Alvinczi, Peter. (Controversialist), 55 Amadé, Baron Ladislas. (Poet), 67 America has no epic; the reason of this, 123 American literature hampered by their language, 14 has no _naïveté_, reasons, 198