. Hungary. l buildings tohave been built but yesterday. Outside the choirof the Black Church are statues of the twelveApostles—much damaged by fire and Protestants—and, in a porch, the remains of a beautiful frescoof the Madonna and Child attended by two most interesting feature of the interior is thegreat number of ancient Oriental rugs, many ofthem Persian, which are of very beautiful and richtone, and hang over the backs of the pews. There are several pleasant summer resorts inthe neighbourhood of Brassd, where pretty villaslie embowered among the trees and grassy slopeswhich cloth
. Hungary. l buildings tohave been built but yesterday. Outside the choirof the Black Church are statues of the twelveApostles—much damaged by fire and Protestants—and, in a porch, the remains of a beautiful frescoof the Madonna and Child attended by two most interesting feature of the interior is thegreat number of ancient Oriental rugs, many ofthem Persian, which are of very beautiful and richtone, and hang over the backs of the pews. There are several pleasant summer resorts inthe neighbourhood of Brassd, where pretty villaslie embowered among the trees and grassy slopeswhich clothe the foothills. We were surprised,when making excursions, to find that in a districtwhich has been German for seven centuries thetramway-conductors, and even the station-masters,could speak only Hungarian, and that the namesof such thoroughly German places as Neustadt andRosenau should have been changed, in the railwayguides, to the much less simple ones Kerestenyfalva CATTLE ON THE PUSZTA OF HORTOBAGY. TRANSYLVANIA 297 and Barczarozenyd. We climbed the hill nearRosenau—a formal and rich German village, withred-roofed houses, very different from the untidyand irregular ones inhabited by Rumanians in thesame district—and at the top found the ruins of anold fort, where we rested among wild thyme, anddelighted in fresh breezes and the light and shadeplaying over the far-reaching landscape before us. The prettiest and quaintest of the German townswe saw in the country was Segesvar (Schafsburg).It was founded long ago by Saxons, and stillretains very many of its picturesque medievalfeatures—tiled towers, pinnacles, etc.—which appearas a pleasant surprise when the train, rounding ahill, brings them into view. We stayed there, and then at the Armeniantown Erzsebetvaros, having been attracted by afortified Gothic church in the neighbouring village,Sards; but rain, unfortunately, prevented us fromsketching it. Churches, dating from the thirteenth century,built on eminences
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