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 knowledge of its splendid history such as only his poetic and dramatic pen could engrave upon their memory. His versatility of talent for, besides being the Hungarian poet laureate, he is a novelist, playwright, historian, and orator enables the Hungarians to see in him their Heine, their Byron, their Walter Scott, and their Victor Hugo.
