Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1994. [Vol. 2.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 22)

BOOK REVIEWS - Csilla Bertha: Tribute to the Scholar, Teacher and Man, László Országh. Vadon, Lehel: Országh László. Eger: Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Nyomdája, 1994. 93 pp

For all of us who knew him and/or his work, "Országh's life is an allegory of what, over the centuries, has made Hungary pre-eminent for its creativity and progress in times when hardly more than survival appeared possible" (Myron Simon)

. For those of us fortunate enough to have been his students and to have known him more closely, he was, in addition, a helpful, benign, inspiring father-figure, whose Debrecen office and Budapest apartment, in Vadon's words, was a "chapel which we often entered awkwardly and full of uncertainties but which we always left appeased, hopeful and recharged." This is why it is not only with intellectual curiosity that one opens Lehel Vadon's book on Iüszló Országh but also with personal joy, warm memories and gratitude. Gratitude on the one hand, for the privilege of having known this exceptional personality and, on the other, to the author for paying this homáge, which not only in its contents but also in its simple elegance of appearance

—silver letters on a dark blue cover

—is worthy of the subject of the tribute. 158