[8] Adventure XXII.
[9] History of the House of Austria from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold the Second, Vol. IV, pp. 440, 441 (by W. Cox, London, 1820).
[10] Cf. Voltaire’s Précis du Siècle de Louis XV, Chap. VI (Paris, 1828). The application to Maria Theresa of the title Rex—King—instead of Regina—Queen—was in accordance with a peculiar custom in Hungary which required that her signature on all public documents should be Maria Theresa Rex.
[11] Fraser’s Magazine, Vol. XXII, p. 692. Another Englishman declares: “The Latin is so common in Hungary that during my travels I frequently heard the servants and the postillions converse and dispute with great fluency in that language.” Cox, op. cit., Vol. V, p. 440.
[12] Tour of Austria, p. 372 (London, 1844).
[13] Another saying frequently accompanies this, to wit: Nullum vinum, nisi Hungaricum—Hungarian is the only wine.
[14] Nevill Forbes, in The Balkans, A History of Bulgaria, Servia, Greece, Roumania, Turkey, p. 48 (Oxford, 1915).
[15] The Balkans, p. 6 (Oxford, 1915).
[16] It is curious to remember that Attila’s first attack upon the Roman Empire “was delivered at the very spot upon the Danube where the Germanic powers in August, 1914, began their offensive. Attila directed his armies upon the frontiers of modern Servia at the point where the Save joins the Danube, where the city of Singidunum rose then and where to-day Belgrade stands.” Cf. Attila and the Huns, p. 37 (by Edward Hutton, New York, 1915).
[17] See the Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti, pp. 411–419 (by C. W. Russell, London, 1858).