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The Millennium Of Hungary And It's People
The Millennium Of Hungary And It's People Author:Various PREFACE: The Hungarian nation appears before the civilized world in all the halo of its Millennium. It is the object of this work to display as it were in an epitome in characteristic traits and leading features all that Hungary has done in the course of centuries, teeming with storms and troubles; what role it has played among European nations;... more » and with what intellectual and material civilization it is equipped and now enters its second thousand years - in one word its past and its present. The book also gives a picture of the political genius of the nation and how it is expressed in the organization of the state in its constitutional institutions and public life. It affords us a glimpse into the many sided and fertile activity of society in literature, art, education, agriculture, trade and commerce, and it points everywhere to the critical moments of that long and toilsome path by which the nation has struggled from the past into the present....... Many of the earliest books, partic« less