. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. SCENE, TEANSYLYAXIA. Borrow has a crotchet in his head about the continenceof gipsy women. This notion seems to be a hobby ofhis, and he therefore maintains it, though notoriously in-correct. The generous readiness with which the Hungariansalways come forward to aid their countrymen, orcontribute to any national undertaking, is really exem-plary. The sums collected by them in aid of the starv- KLAUSENBURG. 441 ing people in Hungary were astonishing; and while Iwas in Transylvania many landed prop
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. SCENE, TEANSYLYAXIA. Borrow has a crotchet in his head about the continenceof gipsy women. This notion seems to be a hobby ofhis, and he therefore maintains it, though notoriously in-correct. The generous readiness with which the Hungariansalways come forward to aid their countrymen, orcontribute to any national undertaking, is really exem-plary. The sums collected by them in aid of the starv- KLAUSENBURG. 441 ing people in Hungary were astonishing; and while Iwas in Transylvania many landed proprietors agreedto take a certain number of the emigrant families andlodge and feed them through the winter. Everywherea helping hand was extended towards them. And withwhat sympathy assistance was rendered ! There is, too,in Klausenburg, a society of ladies for visiting needy fami-lies in their homes, and bringing them the help is excellently managed, under the presidency of a lady,whose talent for organization and bringing a plan into£-ood working order is something rare. Sh
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