A Girl S Wanderings In Hungary Classic Reprint

Excerpt from A Girl's Wanderings in Hungary I cannot but feel that the kindly interest which has been taken in my Wanderings in Hungary' is evi dence of a desire on the part of many of the reading public to become better acquainted with this most interesting country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII A trip down the Danube--Scene on board the steamer--Fromontor and the cave-dwellers--Turkish, Bulgarian, and Servian ladies-- Vingt-et-un on deck--Montenegrins--The breaking up of the ice-- The Gibraltar of Europe--Semlin--The first cataract--The Castle of the Nine Towers--St. George's Cave and the furin infernalis--Eoman ruins--A moral shower-bath--The Iron-Gate Pass--Eoumanian officials--Beggars--Water mills and buoys on the Danube--Turnu Severin--Orsova and Trajan's Column--Is it a Bevolution?-- Market-day--Costumes--A Boumanian village--Fairy-land. One of the most delightful episodes of the delightful six months spent that year in Budapest was a trip down the Danube to Orsova. It was a fine spring morning of the balmiest description when I -stepped aboard one of the express steamers belonging to the Danube Steam Navigation Company, and set off, under the shadow of the rocky Gellerthegy, towering up to a height of 300 feet above the river. The decks were crowded with passengers--fair-haired Germans, swarthy Bosnians, peach-complexioned Magyars, haughty Austrians, graceful Dalmatians, silent, white-veiled, or red-fezed Turks, and Boumanians of every degree, from the tall, effeminate-looking dweller in Bucharest to the sallow, uncivilised shepherd from the Wallachian Mountains. There were also Jews of various nationalities, some quite clean and spruce in appearance, others disgustingly the reverse; and of course the ubiquitous gipsy was present. The first-class accommodation is excellent and most reasonable in price; the second class consists merely of permission to lie, or squat, on the bare deck of the 'fo'cas'le, ' and is patronised only by the army of the 'great unwashed, ' who usually outnumber the first-class.

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Although Hungarian ballads were first collected about a hundred years before this book was first published in 1967, they have remained largely unknown to Western scholars. This was the first comprehensive study of the Hungarian material in any major European language. Dr Leader provides an analytic description and full English text of the main Hungarian classical ballads with their published versions. She examines their characteristics, analyses their themes, motifs and underlying folk beliefs, and relates them to ballads of other countries, particularly England and Scotland. This pioneer work suggested fresh interpretations and solutions to the problems of Hungarian ballad scholarship and enlarged the study of international ballads by making the Magyar material available in translation. It had repercussions on a wide range of folklore studies and on the comparative study of European literatures, to which the oral narrative traditions serve as important groundwork.