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,...
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