Photo by li^rdelyi 



SUNDAY AFTERNOON AMUSEMENT AT A SMAEL VILLAGE IN HUNGARY 



These men are wearing the cut of trousers which is the fashion in Hungary (see also pages 



338 and 339) 



theories of state and all that is helpful 

 and lasting in her corporate and juridical 

 entity. 



Within four centuries Hungary be- 

 comes the first power in Central Europe. 

 Her King Sigismund, displacing the 

 Pope, himself presides at the Council of 

 Constance (1414), and gives Huss to the 

 flames of hell. A moment she stands 

 peerless, and then she falls. Robbed of 

 her strength by internal dissensions, 

 which are caused by the selfishness and 

 corruption of feudal lords and by the 

 enslavement of the peasants, she cannot 

 successfully meet the onslaughts of Turk 

 and Christian neighbors. 



MEN NOW LIVING WHO WERE BORN SERES 



Rural Hungary is upon the plane of 



rural England. Physically she has a 

 beauty all her own. True, the noble 

 magnificence of the English estate is not 

 reproduced ; but there is a general air of 

 the feudal tradition, heightened by castle, 

 tower, and battlement, which bring Nor- 

 man England appreciably nearer. Ab- 

 beys and monasteries, creations of pure 

 architectural beauty, there are not; but 

 the Rococo, the Seccessio, and that splen- 

 did Moorish type which passes, strangely 

 enough, for Gothic, fairly represent the 

 achievements of the race. The baronial 

 splendors of the old homes of the mag- 

 nates are first patriarchal and then won- 

 derful (see pages 312 and 315). 



The picture is of an old-world State, 

 the character of whose people is in- 

 fluenced by its historic past, whose 



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