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 266 HUNGARIAN LITERATORE declare to the world his reasons for opposing the match and every one shaJl know that the baron has forged some bills of exchange. But now an unexpected catastrophe occurs. Ali at once the baron sees his crime in ali its hideousess ; he was not strong enough to live honestiy but at least he feels strong enough to die, and he thinks that his death may clear the way for his child's happiness. But feel ing that in honour and dishonour sh e is one with her father, she too commits suicide. The so n, who has inherited the unyieiding nature of his father, is irrevocably estranged from the man whose hardness has caused these deaths, and kills bimself amidst the ruin of his hopes. The tyrannical u ir on man " stands before us, cut off from every source of consolation. A very interesting tragedy is Csiky's Sp arlacus, dealing with the slave rebellion in Rome. The crisis is brought on by the circumstanec that the slave Spartacus carries off a patridan lady, but he is in turn enslaved by the majestic purity of his captive, so that he dares not claim her love, and by his homage to her kindies the suspicion of his fellows.