In Love With the Czarina, and Other Stories

· 1904

PAGE INTRODUCTION 9 IN LOVE WITH THE CZARINA 17 TAMERLAN THE TARTAR 57 VALDIVIA 111 BIZEBAN 141 THE MOONLIGHT SOMNAMBULIST 151 The entire Hungarian nation--king and people--have recently been celebrating the jubilee of Hungary's greatest writer, Maurice Jókai, whose pen, during half a century of literary activity, has given no less than 250 volumes to the world. Admired and beloved by his patriotic fellow-countrymen, Jókai has displayed that kind of genius which fascinates the learned and unlearned alike, the old and the young. He enchants the children of Hungary by his fairy-tales, and as they grow up into men and women he implants within them a passion for their native land and a knowledg…

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