Written during the 1910s '20s and '30s, these articles offer a nostalgic image of the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, with portraits of the Habsburgs, culminating in first-hand reports in 1916, from Vienna on the funeral of Emperor Francis Joseph I, and from Budapest on the coronation of Charles IV, the last king of Hungary.

John Lukacs: The Chronicler and the Historian, Tiszaeszlár, Fifty Years Later, Frigyes Podmaniczky's Beard, The Bridegroom of Andrássy Avenue, The St. Stephen's Day Travele,r Catholic Crusading Knights of Yore: Their Glory and Their Decline, Somosy, the Man Who Taught Budapest a Lesson in Nightlife, The Court Kept by Miklós Szemere, The Authentic Account of a Legendary Card Battle, One Hundred Years of Horse Racing in Budapest, The Rose of Pest, László Mednyánszky, the Vagabond Baron, The Novelist at the Casino, My Adventures with the Poet on the Crooked Sidewalks, The Lord Mayor of Budapest, The Streets of St. Theresa, Kossuth's Son, Francis Joseph's Wine, Francis Joseph I, the Foremost Gentleman in Europe, Ida Ferenczy, the Queen's Lady-in-Waiting, Baltazzi, the Agent of the Prince, Letter from Pest, 10 May 1914, Winter Campaign, A Budapest Gentleman who had Stepped Forth from an Old Woodcut, Women's Hands, A Hungarian Village After Sundown, The Coronation, Charles IV, Our Ill-Starred King, If the Elder Tisza Were to Return..., The Golden Age of Budapest, Budapest Stark Naked, A Revolutionary Conversation with a Russian Lady, István Tisza's Journey Toward Death, The New Conquest, How the Revolution Broke Out, Land Distribution at Kápolna, Károlyi's Strange Career, The Bolshie, Hungarian Gentry, Forefathers and Descendants, We, the Old-Time Hungarians Glossary, compiled by László Kelecsény, Bibliography, Index