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RACIAL PROBLEMS
IN
HUNGARY
By
SCOTUS VIATOR
Author of "The Future of Austria-Hungary"
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP
On peut subir le droit du plus
fort; on ne le reconnait pas.
LONDON
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. LTD
1908
Table of contents
in self-defence: an answer to critics
geographical and statistical note
CHAPTER I: from the earliest times till the reformation
CHAPTER II: reformation And counter-reformation
CHAPTER III: the rise of Magyar nationality
CHAPTER IV: the beginnings of Slovak literature panslavism, literary and political
CHAPTER V: Magyarization
CHAPTER VI:the revolution of1848
CHAPTER VII: reaction (1849-1860)
CHAPTER VIII: transition (1860-1867)
CHAPTER IX: the Ausgleich and the nationalities
CHAPTER X: the new era — passivity and persecution (1867-1908)
CHAPTER XI: the education laws of Hungary and the nationalities
CHAPTER XII: administrative e
CHAPTER XIII: electoral corruption and electoral reform
CHAPTER XIV: association and assembly in Hungary
CHAPTER XV: the persecution of the non-Magyar press
CHAPTER XVI: judicial injustice
CHAPTER XVII: A political trial in Hungary and its sequel
CHAPTER XVIII Slovak popular art, by dušan jurkovič
CHAPTER XIX: Slovak popular poetry, by svetozar hurban vajansky
CHAPTER XX: Slovak popular melodies, by Milan Lichard and rev. Alois Kolisek
CHAPTER XXI: The Racial Question in Hungary — a summary
appendices —
(1) Report of the Parliamentary Committee on the Question of the Nationalities (1861)
(2) Petition of Bishop Moyses to His Majesty (1861)
(3) The Law of Nationalities (1868)
(4) Polyglot Hungary — Population according to Race
(5) Knowledge of the Magyar Language
(6) Educational Statistics, showing Difference between Theory and Practice
(a) Non-attendance at School
(b) Imperfect Attendance and its Causes
(c) Number of Illiterates
(7) Magyarization in the Schools
(a) Language of Instruction in Primary Schools
(b) ,, ,, in Slovak Primary Schools
(c) Magyarization of Slovak Primary Schools
(d) Slovak Children in Primary Schools
(e) General Table, showing Magyarization in Schooland Violation of the Law of Nationalities
(f) Summary
(9) Magyarization through the Church
(10) Political Persecution of the Non-Magyars
(a) Roumanian Political Trials (1886-1896)
(b) Roumanian Political Trials (1897-1908)
(c) Slovak Political Trials (1898-1908)
(d) Slovak Political Trials (Summary)
(e) Press Actions against the Narodnie Noviny (1892-1906)
(f) Slovak Press Actions (1905-1908)
(g) Summary of Political Trials
(11) Electoral Statistics
(12) Slovak Banks
(14) The Roumanian Programme of Hermannstadt (1881)
(15) The Declaration of the Roumanian Committee at the Memorandum Trial (1894)
(16) The Dissolution of the Roumanian National Party (1894)
(17) The Programme of the Nationalities (1895)
(18) The Protest of the Non-Magyars against Baron Banffy's Placenames Bill (1898)
(19) The Roumanian Programme of 1905
(20) The Slovak Programme of 1905
(21)Defence of Father Hlinka before the Court of Pressburg (1908)
(22) The Szenicz Election (1906)
(24) The Pollakovič Case (1908)
(25) Parliamentary Tolerance (the Vaida Case)
(26) The Magyarization of Surnames, and Official Pressure
(27) How Wills are respected in Hungary
(28) The Croatian Crisis
List of Illustrations
Father Andrew Hlinka (Frontispiece)
(Now undergoing 3 1/2 years' inprisonment for political offences)
Hill Pastures (From a photograph by E. Málek.)
Csorba: in the Tatra Mountains (From a photograph by the Author.)
Trencsen and Leutschau (Löcse)
The Castle of Árva I and II (From photographs by the Author.)
Slovak Peasants, from the county of Turócz, I and II
Daughters of Slava (From the painting by Joža Uprka.)
Slovak Peasant Costumes, from the counties of Trencsen and Pressburg
A Slovak Cottage Interior (From a photograph by E. Málek.)
Slovak Peasant Types, from the county of Arva, I and II
SLovak Peasant Girls, from Detva, county of Zólyom (From a photograph by E. Málek.)
A Slovak Idyll (From the painting by Joža Uprka.)
A Slovak Village Church (the Lutheran Church of Velka Paludza)
(Reproduced from " Les Ouvrages Populaires des Slovaques.")
A Slovak Festival (From the painting of Joža Uprka.)
A Slovak Churchyard (Reproduced from "Les Ouvrages Populaires des Slovaques.")
The Arrest of Father Hlinka (From an amateur photograph confiscated in Hungary.)
Slovak Tombstones, carved and painted
A Slovak Church Interior — Velka Paludza (Reproduced from " Les Ouvrages Populaires des Slovaques.")
Rózsahegy (From a photograph by the Author.)
A Slovak Peasant Home: northern district (From a photograph by E. Málek.)
A Slovak Peasant Home: southern district (From a photograph by E. Málek.)
A Slovak Cottage Interior (From a photograph by E. Málek.)
Portion of an embroidered Slovak Shroud
Wall Decoration in a Slovak Cottage
Slovak Peasant Art — drinking cup, in brass (Reproduced from " Les Ouvrages Populaires des Slovaques.")
Slovak Peasant Art — stick, bracelet and brooch
Slovak Peasant Art — linen beetler and candlestick (Reproduced from " Les Ouvrages Populaires des Slovaques.")
A Slovak Patriarch (From a photograph by E. Málek.)
A Village Worthy (From a photograph by E. Málek.)
Day Dreams (From the painting by Joža Uprka.)
Racial Map of Hungary at end of volume (Forthcoming)