D EATH had hastened at least one departure from Buda-
pest; for sooner or later young Herzl would have left
for "the larger world." Not that Budapest could, in those
days, be called a small place; but for some time now Herzl
had longed for the more tumultuous centers of life to the north
and west. Now the change came. He passed from the
Hungarian capital to that of the Austro-Hungarian Empire,
and passed at the same time form the close confinement of
schooldays to broader limits of university life, and from
the narrow circle of old friends and familiar scenes into a wide
arena of new personalities among whom he would have to
conquer a place for himself.

Herzl never revealed in any direct utterance what im-
pression Vienna made on him; but from innumerable hints
scattered through his later works, and from the more signifi-
cant record of his lifelong habits, it is easy to see with what
eagerness and love and readiness to understand he became
part of the city of Vienna. The streets and buildings must
have spoken to him from the day of his arrival; the graceful
baroque architecture, with its delicate message of beauty
unstifled by rigidity of form, must have been a perpetual
and daily inward provocation to his feeling for music and

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