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libraries and archives of Vienna.' The best guides for Hungarian historical writing, it must be observed, are the Corpus Juris, containing the Dietal Acts of the Ante-Hapsburg periods, and the Historia Diplomatica, embracing the chief documents of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Having been able to avail myself of sources which seem to have been unknown to the historians above named, the following pages will be found to contain some new and important facts. As regards the divisions followed in this book, the guiding rule was the internal connection of events; the space allowed to each period being measured out according to its importance. The last twenty-five years, including the late war, are, as might be expected, treated at comparatively greater length.

How far the main object in view-the representation of the broad features of Hungarian history-has been accomplished, is for the reader to judge.

Edinburgh, January 12, 1854.

1 It may be mentioned that the archives of Buda were long since carried away by the court to the Austrian capital, and are, of course, not easily accessible.

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LEOPOLD I. AND TÖKÖLI.—(1655-1699.)

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Character of Joseph II. His Unwise Attempts in Hungary. Re-

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