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12. — 10. le Danube, The Danube river is one of the largest of Europe. It has its source in the Grand Duchy of Baden, and empties into the Black Sea, flowing a distance of about 2000 miles.

17. /tz Hongrie t Hungary, a large country in the center of Europe, which now forms a part of the empire of Austria and retains the name of kingdom. Conquered by the Magyars in the ninth century, it became a kingdom in a.d. iooo. With the élection of Ferdinand I. of Austria in 1526 the power passed into the hands of the House of Hapsburg, the impérial house of Austria, which retains it to this day. Hungary forms now, in conjunction with Austria, a bipartite state, called the Austro- Hungarian empire. The capital of Hungary is Buda-Pesth, which is situated on both banks of the Danube. Its total population, in 1872, was 360,551 inhabitants.

21. Xossuth, Louis Kossuth, the great Hungarian statesman, was bom at the very beginning of the présent century, and died on the 20th of March, 1894, at Turin, Italy, where he had lived as an exile for many years. Until the last years of his life he led an active life, working diligently on the four volumes of his Réminiscences, which he published in Hungarian, English, and German, in the last language under the title "Meine Schriften aus der Emigration." During his long life Kossuth remained true to a sentiment that he expressed in a letter written from London after the Treaty of Villafranca : **The blessing of success remains with God ; man can only endeavor sincerely to do his duty."