Hungarian Heritage Review, 1987 (16. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1987-03-01 / 3. szám
^oofe ^Reiríeín of 3Montlf HUNGARIAN HELICON — edited and translated by — WATSON KIRKCONNELL Széchényi Society 757 pages $50.00 Here is a volume that must be in every home of Hungarian heritage. It is a vast, rich treasure trove of the best of Hungary’s great poetry. In these pages the words of Petőfi, Attila, Gyula Illés and others of the nation’s mightiest bards sing and roar, keeping alive the sounds, sights and scents of the Motherland. There are also poems written by the sons and daughters of Hungary’s Diaspora — voices from the United States, Canada, England and the other lands where Hungarians settled. This is not a book to be read through in sequence and certainly not at one sitting. But for browsing, for recapturing the flavor of that faraway “old country”, there is nothing more satisfying. It is essential for those who are unaware of the rich tapestry of Hungary’s cultural contribution to the world’s great literature. These are poems to be read aloud and cherished — poems about the puszta, the Alföld, Budapest, small towns and villages and fields, and about the great heroes of the past. What is perhaps most astonishing about this great collection is that it was compiled and translated by a man of Scottish descent who spent his life as a scholar and literary man in Canada, acting for sixteen years as President of Acadia University in Canada. He was vastly learned in some of the most difficult languages — Icelandic, Polish, Ukrainian and Hungarian. He spent more than fifty years in the preparation of this volume. Watson Kirkconnell, who received an honorary degree from the University of Debrecen in 1938, left this enormous tribute to a country he admired above all others. It is a book that should be owned and treasured. Special Book Bargain Sale KOMJÁTHY: 1000 Years of Hungarian Art of War.............................$10.00 STROUP: Hungary in Early 1848 ............... 4.00 VARSÁNYI: Border is Fate............................4.00 These titles are available at special prices because of author’s donation to the Rákóczi Foundation. Send your book order to the Rákóczi Foundation, P.O. Box 67, Station “L”, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6E-4Y4. Add $1.00 for postage. For a copy of Sándor Kertesz’s bilingual (English & Hungarian) book on the history of the Hungarian theatre in Canada entitled “Curtain at Eight", please forward your order and payment of $25.00 to: Rákóczi Foundation P.O. Box 67, Station “L” Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6E-4Y4 Border is Fate HUNGARY IN EARLY 1848: THE CONSTITUTIONAL STRUGGLE AGAINST ABSOLUTISM IN CONTEMPORARY EYES o HOSEL WALTER STROUP Foreword In SI IAI N III I A V ARID MARCH 1987 HUNGARIAN HERITAGE REVIEW 21
