Conditions in Hungary before the War are described from the Magyar point of view in: Percy Alden (ed.), Hungary of Today. By members of the Hungarian Government. (Apponyi, Kossuth, Wekerle, etc.) London, 1909. C. M. Knatchbull-Hugessen, The Political Evolution of the Hungarian Nation. 2 vols. London, 1908.
The author who has done more than any other one man, perhaps, to expose the tyranny of the old Magyar regime to the Western public, is R. W. Seton-Watson, who at first wrote under the pseudonym of ‘Scotus Viator.’ His chief books on this subject are: Racial Problems in Hungary, London, 1908; Corruption and Reform in Hungary: a study of electoral practice, ibid., 1911; The Southern Slav Question and the Habsburg Monarchy, ibid., 1911.
The Roumanian problem in Hungary naturally forms a chief topic in another recent work by Mr. Seton-Watson: Roumania and the Great War, London, 1915. Other noteworthy expositions of Roumania’s claims to what was eastern Hungary are to be found in: M. R. Sirianu, La Question de Transylvanie et l’unité politique roumaine. Paris, 1916. D. Draghicesco, Les problèmes nationaux de l’Autriche-Hongrie. Les Roumains. Paris, 1918. N. P. Comnène, Roumania through the Ages. An historical, political, and ethnographical atlas. Paris, 1919.
A rather copious literature has grown up lately around the Yugo-Slav movement. Among the most useful works on that subject are: A. H. E. Taylor, The Future of the Southern Slavs. New York, 1917. V. R. Savić, South-Eastern Europe. New York, 1918. E. Denis, La grande Serbie. Paris, 1915. R. J. Kerner, The Jugo-Slav Movement. Cambridge, Mass., 1918.
For Italian views on the group of questions relating to the Adriatic provinces, one would turn especially to: V. Gayda, L’Italia d’oltre confini. Turin, 1914. A. Tamaro, Italiani e Slavi nell’Adriatico. Rome, 1915. ***, L’Adriatico. Studio geografico, storico, e politico. Milan, 1915. Adriacus. From Trieste to Valona. The Adriatic Problem and Italy’s Aspirations. Milan, 1919. G. Dainelli, La Dalmazia, sua italianità, suo valore per la libertà d’Italia nell’Adriatico. Genoa, 1915. Dainelli has also published a useful atlas of Dalmatia, entitled La Dalmazia. Cenni geografici e statistici. Novara, 1918. A. Hodnig, Fiume italiana e la sua funzione antigermanica. Rome, 1917. G. Depoli, Fiume e la Liburnia. Bari, 1919.
On the Fiume question it is also useful to consult V. Tomsich, Notizie storiche sulla città di Fiume, Fiume, 1886 (the fullest history of the city. Written in a vein of intense local patriotism, in the spirit of the old Fiumano independence party); Sišić, Abrégé de l’histoire politique de Rieka-Fiume, Paris, 1919 (review of the history from the Croatian point of view); and the brochure Fiume, arguing for Yugo-Slav claims, published at Paris in 1916 by Count Voinovitch and others.
Frontier promised to Italy by the Treaty of London (1915)