Produced by Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) 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 PREFACE. Jokai is one of the most popular of the Hungarian prose writers of fiction 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 a favourite with Hungarian readers. Among the earlier of his productions, those best known are a novel entitled, "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 late memorable national movement, and embodies descriptions of several of the direst scenes in the civil war which devastated Hungary from the year 1848 to 1850.