The New York herald., 1921-10-02

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~ naslg. young rr'neh%aa nnsss. arrived rive a, at
the station to receive him and he had
a good deal of trouble to find his bag
gage and get man to carry it to his
room, for he did not know a word of
the Hungarian language" Since then
he and his brother, the authors Of this
new book, have learned as much as
any outsider could of the Jews of Hun
gary, Poland and the Ukraine region.
wrote THE HERALD of theirt two earlier
books some months ago.
They have traced the ancient wild
Jew" of Galacia through his progress
from pedler to money lender, from
employee to owner of estates, finally
to business man or journalist of the
city. In Budapest they paint the
''Maison Orczi," a kind of ghetto
caravansary, where certain stages in
this metamorphosis may be studied.
They find in the types here something
which survives all changes of costume
and of fortune, even all the perpetual
variations of thought
Hitherto the Tharauds have ex-
amined the problems of the relation
ship between Jew and Gentle from the
descriptive or static point of view.
Now they consider the whole situation
dynamically, with special reference to
the Hungarian revolution. And at the
end they leave the eternal question.
They have written a well ordered
drama Of Hungarian history, leaving
experiment. In the first acts, the eX-
position, the two cities of Budapest
came to life-the old Magyar fortress
of Bude and the later German-JeYish
town of Pesth. Bude was long the
vanguard of Christianity. "Her old
rock is like Marathon, Salamis or the
Catalonian fields, one of the places
where the fate of our civilization was
fought out with the Orient"
But the town of Pesth. across the
Danube. bowed before the invaders. 1t
should be added that the assault upon
her was almost impossible to with
invisible, repeated, like an in
undation which mounts by insensible
degrees rather than the splendid
shocks of armed combat that play so
large part in the glory Of written
history"
So the insidious Orient. driven back
for two centuries from Bude, kept
making it's way little by little into the
other town until one fine day Pesth
woke up to find herself mastered. This
pervading force spread out across Hun
gary. In many quarters the Jews
had succeeded the ancient hereditary
mobiles as proprietors of the land. And
having secured commercial control of
the country, they became involved in
q communist revolution, the prologue
of which was the assassination Of
Count Tisza
Jerome and Jean Tharaud have
drawn an arresting portrait Of the
murdered man which recalls the fig
ures of the great Huguenots of the
seventeenth century. Issue of Sc
we're old Calvinist family. with stern
bearing and powerful frame, "he was
an accomplished sportsman. a fencer
of the first rank. who accepted all
challenges and commonly wounded his
adversary. an intrepid rider. a great
lover of the chase. -. A simple
unwavering soul dominated by clearly
defined convictions. almost elementary
in character. Obstinate in his thoughts,
austere and ready to sacrifice every
thing for his faith, he seemed to find
morose satisfaction in the unpopu
larity in which he had always lived
In 1914 this man was Prime Minis
ter. and as such participated in the
Cabinet counsel where the Serbian ul-
timatum was passed upon. So his peo-
pie and the world in general have
looked upon him as one Of those re-
sponsible for the cataclysm. The
brothers Tharaud in n new and dra-
matte recital of the wars prelude give
contrary version. They show Tisza
setting himself against his colleagues
In the effort to maintain peace. And
when during the war and after the
defeat popular hate centred upon him
his pride kept him from seeking justi-
fication i'm revealing the truth.
Evidently Capt. Cezerniak, who was
arrested in August. charged with the
assassination, was ignorant of this
version.
AS in the French Revolution and in
the recent Russian revolution, the lib
eral aristocracy seems to have played
a great part. The Tharauds have little
liking for Count Karolyi. the keren-
sky of the Hungarian uprising. They