[To THE EDITOR OP THE ''SPECTATOR...]
SIR,—In your last issue Mr. Shrubsole maintains that "the number of Magyars in Hungary alone—including, of course, Croatia"—is ten millions. This statement is misleading in two"
directions. (1) It is quite true that the official Hungarian statistics for 1910 place the Magyars at ten millions (and I do not propose to challenge their accuracy, though a good deal could be written on the subject). But this includes (in round figures) a million Jews, and as the object of my brief letter of a fortnight ago was to point out the racial distribution of Austria-Hungary, I naturally deducted these. (2) To say that the number "in Hungary alone" is ten millions suggests that there are other Magyars elsewhere. In reality there are only nine thousand Magyars in Austria (in the province of Bukowina), apart from the Magyars who may happen to be residents in Vienna. In the rest of Europe there are no Magyars at all, with the exception of a few scattered colonies of Szekels (from Transylvania) in the kingdom of Roumania. On the other hand, there are probably between three and four hundred thousand Magyars in the United States. In CroatiaSlavonia, which Mr. Shrubsole specially includes, there are less
than a hundred thousand Magyars.—I am, Sir, &c., X.
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