HISTORY OF MAGYARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 7 (Supplement)

HISTORY OF MAGYARS.

NEW MUSEUM FOR HUNGARY.

A Parliamentary museum consisting of twenty rooms has been opened in the Parliament building at Budapest. The collection consists of manuscripts, documents, codexes, etchings, portraits, statues, and relics dating from the time when the Magyars first entered Hungary down to the present day. Among the exhibits are a copy of the "golden bull" (so named beoauso of the seal attached \o it), in which King Endre 11., of the house of Arpad, laid down the rights of tho Hungarian nobility in 1222, and a graphicon, which records the places in which the Hungarians held Parliamentary gatherings from 1000 to 1520.

Another case cdnlains Napoleon's proclamation to the Hungarians in French, Latin, and Hungarian, from Vienna, in May, ,1809, when Napoleon was at his zenith, and in which he urges tho Magyars to tegain their independence, as the Emperor of Austria had broken the peace made with him. Upon this appeal tho Hungarian nobility attempted a rising, which was the last of its kind before the Freedom War of '48.

Among the relics of Kossuth, tho most beloved of all Hungarian patriots, is the black velvet tunic he wore when dethroning tho Habsburgs in the Debrecen Parliament, and the riding-whip which he stuck in the ground to indicate the place where tho crown of Hungary had been buried.

A letter from Mazzini to Kossuth, written in, 1851, and advocating the Italian-Hungarian brotherhood,,may also bo seen. Statues of Kossuth and Szechonyi (one of the greatest of Hungarians), cast from guns of the Freedom War, are also in the museum.