The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-11
LITERATURE.



MEMORIES OF My EXILE. By Louis Kossuth.
Translated from the original Hungarian by
Ference Jausz. D..Appleton ~ Co., New York
Jansen, McClurg * Co., Chicago; OsHlan ~
Hapeman, Ottawa Price 500.
Popular sympathy in America was never more
strongly aroused by any European event than the
heroic struggle OF the Ilungarians in 1919 for
liberation from the yoke of Austria. Their sue
cess, as the world knows, was only thwarted
by the unexpected and to this day inexplicable
intervention Of Russia The treason of Goergy
and the disaster Of Kapolna ended the strife, and
Louis Kossuth, its inspiring genius and hero,
with Il few thousand companions, only saved
themselves from the gibbct by escaping into
Turkey. But even there the malevolence OF
Christian Europe followed them, and the Sultan
was compelled to hold them as prisoners until,
at the end OF two years. by the friendly interven-
ton of America and France, they were released
and allowed to wander as strangers and exilcs
over the world 1t is the story of this exile that
is told in Il }oIume before us. Though de-
fcdted and he'd, the exes were not in des-
pair. AftcI re events Of 1S4S Kossuth knew
that POLITE Europe was rumbling volcano,
liable to braak forth with overwhelming fury at
any TIME. raging II HNlHR WISH W THpldnu
America, in about 1892 he returned to Europe in
time to take part in the diplomatic encounter
which ended In the Crimean war; in which, after
the failure Of the allies to enlist Austria on their
side, he was not without hope of obtaining aid
and sympathy for Hungary. Failing in this, how
ever he next turned his attention to Italy,
which was equally with Hungary groaning in
her northern provinces under Austrian opprcs-
sioa. He had the address to enlist the attention
and win the favor of Victor Emmanuel aud Count
Cayour, and finally of Louis Napoleon, and bore
no secondary hand in the important negotiations
that led to the war of France and Sardinia
against Austria in 1889. Never We're higher
hopes more cruelty dashed than by the outcome
of that war. II had been fully arranged that
transportation, arms, equipments and money
should be furnished TO considerable force of
Hungarian eXilcs who, as the struggle opened
in LOmhardy, should descend ON the the northern
shores Of the Danube aud, raising the standard
Of Hungarian Independence open fearful fire
in the rear. But the campaign was too short.
The victories of MOnteheo, Magenta aud Sol
ferino followed each other in such rapid success
sion, that before the Hungarian contingent was
war. The star of Hungary rose once more
dimly above the horizon at the outbreak of the
war between Austria and Prussia In 1861 but
again in that case, as in the other, "just US the
angel OF Gods compassion was handing the cup
Of liberation to Hungary it became bitter cup
Of vanished hope." As in the former case, SO In
the latter, the speedy victory over Austria
dashed the hopes Of Hungary. The finale to the
lofty aspirations Of that unhappy people for
independence was given by the nation itself in
entering into its present dual arrangement with
Austria-and the hungarian question of Kos
suth exists more as an element in Europeau
politics. The story, however, of all the diplo.
matte intrigues, encounters, shuillngs, evasions,
duplicities aud articles in which the European
courts during those eventful twenty years were
Involved. and in which Kossuth bore so copspic
uOus part, Is one OF the deepest imaginable in
terest and is told with nalyete no less engag-
iHS than vigorous.
4 FAAors VICTORY. Jansen, McClurg a. Co
Chicago; 0sman * Hapeman, Ottawa Price
<I25
Quite sensation in literary circles was pro-
dnced some months ago by the publication OF "a
PooL's ERgASD,"a caustic satire on the political
condition and treatment OF the south. The vol
ume before US is In the same vein, the author
changing the tn eme and turning the shafts of
his 1dicule and scorn against the conduct and
management of our elections by the professional
politicians, Office seekers and bummen. While