Hungary's fight for national existence [antikvár]

AUTHOR'S PREFACEThanks to the magnanimous resolution of the EmperorKing Francis Josephthe remains of Francis Rakoczi II. were brought home to Hungary in 1906. For 170 years they had Iain in foreign soil, at Rodosto in Turkey, now they have found their eternal rest in the cathedral of Kassa.The occasion was one of grateful emotion and rejoicing in Hungary. The manifestations of these feelings drew also the attention of the foreign press to the memory of the man and the part he had played in Hungarian history. It was then that I discovered that there was no history written in English on Francis Rakoczi and the great national movement which he provoked and led. Yet for the time he and his cause were most important although disturbing factors in the policy of England, nobody worked harder or more sincerely for an accommodation between Rakoczi and his sovereign, who was England's ally, than her Minister in Vienna, and his despatches remain until to-day one of the main sources for the history of the first stage of the struggle.