Translator‘s Preface
_ Title: Manasseh: A Romance of Transylvania, by Maurus Jokai
Translator: Percy Favor Bicknell
A few words of introduction to this striking story of life in Szeklerland may not be out of place.
The events narrated are supposed to take place half a century ago, in the stirring days of ‘48, when the spirit of resistance to arbitrary rule swept over Europe, and nowhere called forth deeds of higher heroism than in Hungary. To understand the hostility between the Magyars and Szeklers on the one hand, and the Wallachians on the other,--a state of feud on which the plot of the story largely hinges,--let it be remembered that the non-Hungarian elements of the kingdom were exceedingly jealous of their Hungarian neighbours, and apprehensive lest the new liberal constitution of 1848 should chiefly benefit those whom they thus chose to regard as enemies. Therefore, secretly encouraged by the government at Vienna, they took up arms against the Hungarians. The Croat

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