Identifier: hungary00stok (find matches)
Title: Hungary
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stokes, Adrian, 1854-1935 Stokes, Marianne
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Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ect in values, andpainted with considerable sense of style. To methey gave real pleasure, recalling as they did thework of the last of an old band of landscapepainters practising when first I went to France. In the happy days of Prince Rudolf, CrownPrince of Austria-Hungary, Mr. Melka used to ac-company his shooting-parties in the Transylvanianmountains and make drawings—sometimes of thecompany, sometimes of their bag. He showed re-productions of many of these. One was of five bears,lying side by side, which had all been shot on thesame day. He described the scenery up in thosehigh places as magnificent, and told of lakes whichhad been without fish until he and his friends intro-duced trout. These have thriven exceedingly, andtake the fly on the rare occasions when it is offeredto them. As for living there, it was out of thequestion unless one was provided with servants,horses, tents, provisions, etc., all brought up fromthe lowlands, a day or twos journey away. IN CHURCH AT VAZSECZ
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. FROM ORSOVA TO THE TATRA SS He told us that it was impossible to persuadethe peasants in or about Kolosvar to pose asmodels, and that if one began painting Gipsies,they were so unreliable they probably would notreappear after the first sitting. Thus discouraged by Mr. Melka, we decided togive up Transylvania, at least for that year, andaway to the renowned Tatra, to the mighty Hima-layan heights, the pellucid lakes and wondrousNiagarian falls, and the scented air of the pine-forests of the Tatra. So had our imagination beenworked upon that this hardly exaggerates our stateof expectation. Hungarians, more than any other people withwhom I am acquainted, may be divided into twoclasses; those who have travelled abroad and seenlittle of their own country, and, the majority, whohave seen a little of their own country and nothingelse. Hence the comparisons of their own withother lands, so frequently heard, are generally mis-leading, though made in the most perfect goodfaith. It was a long

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