MAURUS See also:

• MAURUS JOKAI (1825-1904)

JOKAI (1825-1904)  , Hungarian novelist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Rev-See also:

• KOMAROM (Ger., Komorn)

Komarom on the 19th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1825 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph, was a member of the Asva See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient J6kay See also:

• FAMILY

family; his See also:

• MOTHER

mother was a See also:

• SCION

scion of the See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble Pulays . The lad was timid and delicate, and therefore educated at See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home till his tenth See also:

• YEAR

year, when he was sent to See also:

• PRESSBURG (Hung. Pozsony, Lat. Posonium)

Pressburg, subsequently completing his See also:

• EDUCATION

education at the Calvinist See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college at Papa, where he first met See also:

• PETOFI, ALEXANDER (1823—1849)

Petofi, See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander Kozma, and several other brilliant See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young men who subsequently became famous . His family had meant him to follow the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, his father's profession, and accordingly the youth, always singularly assiduous, plodded conscientiously through the usual curriculum at Kecskemet and Pest, and as a full-blown See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate actually succeeded in winning his first See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case . But the drudgery of a lawyer's See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office was uncongenial to the ardently poetical youth, and, encouraged by the encomiums pronounced by the Hungarian See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy upon his first See also:

• PLAY

play, Zsidb flu (" The See also:

• JEW, THE WANDERING

Jew Boy "), he flitted, when barely twenty, to Pest in 1845 with a MS. See also:

• ROMANCE

romance in his See also:

• POCKET

pocket; he was introduced by Petofi to the See also:

• LITERARY

literary notabilities of the Hungarian See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital, and the same year his first notable romance Hetkoznapok (" Working Days "), appeared, first in the columns of the Pesti Dievatlap, and subsequently, in 1846, in See also:

• BOOK

book See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form . Hetkoznapok, despite its See also:

• MANIFEST (Lat. manifestus, clear, open to view)

manifest crudities and extravagances, was instantly recognized by all the leading critics as a See also:

• WORK

work of See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius, and in the following year See also:

• JOKAI, MAURUS (1825-1904)

Jokai was appointed the editor of Eletkepek, the leading Hungarian literary See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal, and gathered See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round him all the rising See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country . On the outbreak of the revolution of 1848 the young editor enthusiastically adopted the See also:

• NATIONAL

national cause, and served it with both See also:

• PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen and See also:

• SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword . Now, as ever, he was a moderate Liberal, setting his See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face steadily against all excesses; but, carried away by the Hungarian triumphs of See also:

• APRIL

April and May 1849, he supported See also:

• KOSSUTH, FERENCZ LAJOS AKOS (1841– )
• KOSSUTH, LAJOS [Louis] (1802-1894)

Kossuth's fatal blunder of deposing the Hapsburg See also:

• DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty, and though, after the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war was over, his See also:

• LIFE

life was saved by an ingenious stratagem of his wife, the See also:

• GREAT

great tragic actress, Roza Benke Laborfalvi, whom he had married on the 29th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1848, he lived for the next fourteen years the life of a See also:

• POLITICAL

political suspect . Yet this was perhaps the most glorious See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of his existence, for during it he devoted himself to the rehabilitation of the See also:

• PRO

pro-scribed and humiliated Magyar See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, composing in it no fewer than See also:

• THIRTY

thirty great romances, besides innumerable volumes of tales, essays, criticisms and facetim . This was the period of such masterpieces as Erdely See also:

• ARANY, JANOS (1817-1882)

Arany Kord (" The See also:

• GOLDEN

Golden See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

Age of Transylvania "), with its sequel Torokvildg Magyarorszdgon (" The See also:

• TURKS

Turks in See also:

• HUNGARY
• HUNGARY (Hungarian Magyarorszdg)

Hungary"),EgyMagyar See also:

• NABOB

Nabob("A Hungarian Nabob"), Karpdthy Zoltdn, Janicsdrok vegnapjai (" The Last Days of the See also:

• JANISSARIES (corrupted from Turkish yeni cheri, new troops)

Janissaries"), Szomor2 napok (" Sad Days ") . On the re-See also:

• ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of the Hungarian constitution by the See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

Composition of 1867, Jokai took an active See also:

• PART

part in politics: As a See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant sup-See also:

• PORTER
• PORTER, BENJAMIN CURTIS (1843– )
• PORTER, DAVID (1780-1843)
• PORTER, DAVID DIXON (1813-1891)
• PORTER, ENDYMION (1587–1649)
• PORTER, HENRY (ft. 1596-1599)
• PORTER, HORACE (1837– )
• PORTER, JANE (1776–1850)
• PORTER, MARY (d. 1765)
• PORTER, NOAH (1811–1892)

porter of the See also:

• TISZA, KALMAN [KOLOMAN] (1830-1902)

Tisza See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration, not only in See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament, where he sat continuously for more than twenty years, but also as the editor of the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government See also:

• ORGAN

organ, Hon, founded by him in 1863, he became a See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power in the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, and, though he never took office himself, frequently extricated the government from difficult places . In 1897 the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor appointed him a member of the upper See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house .

As a suave, See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical and witty debater he was particularly successful . Yet it was to literature that he continued to devote most of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, and his productiveness after 1870 was stupendous, amounting to some hundreds of volumes . Stranger still, none of this work is slipshod, and the best of it deserves to endure . Amongst the finest of his later See also:

• WORKS

works may be mentioned the unique and incomparable Az arany ember (" A See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

Man of See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

Gold ")—translated into See also:

• ENGLISH

English under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Timar's Two Worlds—and A tengerzemu holgy (" Eyes like the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

Sea "), the latter of which won the Academy's See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize in 189o . He died at See also:

• BUDAPEST

Budapest on the 5th of May 1904; his wife having predeceased him in 1886 . J6kai was an See also:

• ARCH
• ARCH, JOSEPH (1826– )

arch-romantic, with a perfervid See also:

• ORIENTAL

Oriental See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination, and See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour of the purest, rarest description . If one can imagine a See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination, in almost equal parts, of See also:

• WALTER, HUBERT (d. 1205)
• WALTER, JOHN (1738/9-1812)

Walter See also:

• SCOTT, ALEXANDER (fl. 1550)
• SCOTT, DAVID (18o6-1849)
• SCOTT, MICHAEL (1789-1835)
• SCOTT, ROBERT (1811-1887)
• SCOTT, SIR GEORGE GILBERT (1811-1878)
• SCOTT, SIR WALTER, BART
• SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1811-1890)
• SCOTT, WINFIELD (1786-1866)

Scott, See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• BECKFORD, WILLIAM (1760–1844)

Beckford, See also:

• DUMAS, ALEXANDRE
• DUMAS, ALEXANDRE [" DUMAS FILS"] (1824-1895)
• DUMAS, GUILLAUME MATHIEU, COUNT (1753-1837)
• DUMAS, JEAN BAPTISTE ANDRE (1800-1884)

Dumas pere, and See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• DICKENS, CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM (1812-187o)

Dickens, together with the native originality of an ardent Magyar, one may perhaps form a See also:

• FAIR

fair See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of the great Hungarian romancer's indisputable genius . See Nevy Laszlo, Jokai M6r; Hegedusis See also:

• SANDOR [ALEXANDER] KISFALUDY (1772-1844)

Sandor, Jokai M6rrSl; H . W . Temperley, " Maurus Jokai and the See also:

• HISTORICAL

Historical Novel," See also:

• CON

Con-temporary See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review (See also:

• JULY

July 1904) .