Translator's Note

Works of Maurus Jókai

Hungarian Edition

Arthur B. Yolland

NEW YORK

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

Copyright, 1900, by Doubleday & McClure Co.

In rendering into English this novel of Dr. Jókai's, which many of his countrymen consider his masterpiece, I have been fortunate enough to secure the collaboration of my friend, Mr. Zoltán Dunay, a former colleague, whose excellent knowledge of the English language and literature marked him out as the most competent and desirable collaborator.

Arthur B. Yolland.

Budapest, 1898.