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G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON
THE
STORY OF HUNGARY
BY
ARMINIUS VÁMBÉRY
PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BUDA-PESTH
WITH THE COLLABORATION OF
LOUIS HEILPRIN
NEW YORK & LONDON
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press
1886
COPYRIGHT BY
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
1886
Press of
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York
PREFACE.
In complying with the request of the publishersof the Nations Series to write the Story of Hungary,I undertook a task which was out of the range ofmy previous literary undertakings, which had for themost part been devoted to the geography, history,and philology of Central Asia. The principal reasonwhich induced me to enter upon what is for me anew literary field, was my desire to make Americanand English readers acquainted with the record ofmy native country, and to present the various phasesof the history of Hungary in the light best suited toattract the attention of the citizens of England andof the Great Republic, to whose opin