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Title: Hungary and its people: Magyarorzág és népei
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Felbermann, Louis
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Publisher: London, Griffith Farran
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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n nomenclature have also been re-christened, and the German theatre at Buda-pest, prior to its having been destroyed by fire,has frequently been the scene of disturbances,as the students have repeatedly made demon-strations protesting against performances inGerman, and the authorities, who got tired ofrepeated skirmishes with them, were pleased thatthis fire settled the question. It will be seenfrom this that our Teuton friends are not greatfavourites with the Magyars. Strange to say, atBuda, only divided by the Danube from Pest,the German language rules supreme. At the hotels, which are most numerous andluxurious, almost every language is spoken, andindeed you can partake at the Hungária, or* Queen of England, of a purely Englishdinner, and be attended upon by a waiterwho knows English as well as a waiter at the^\ Langham or any other similar establish-ment in London. They are very polite toeverybody, and the only distinction they maketo those who fee them liberally is to give th-em
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Budapest. 117 a higher title. For instance, if you give awaiter two or three kreutzers (a halfpenny)which is considered a decent fee, he will callyou Tekintetes Ur (Respected Sir), a title thatevery educated man possesses by Act ofParliament. By giving him five or six kreut-zers you blossom into Nagyságos, which,literally translated, means Highness, but is aterm used to the lesser nobility. In fact, everylady in Hungary is addressed by courtesy^Nagysád, which conveys the same meaning.If you ever want to be a Méltóságos, or^^ Nagyméltoságos, titles to which only a Countor a Cabinet Minister are respectively entitled,you have to give to the Pincsér (waiter) tenkreutzers, in round sum, 2d. It will be seenfrom this, that people have not so much to payfor their titles in Hungary as an Englishman inGermany when addressed as * My Lord. Per-haps this is the reason why Englishmen say thattitles are very cheap in that part of the world,though I can assure the reader that in spite ofthe

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