Poland; a Study of the Land, People, and Literature

This huge volume was published in 1903.

CONTENTS
PART I
OBSERVATIONS AND APPRECIATIONS
FIRST IMPRESSION (1885)

I. Journey from Vienna to Warsaw— The Frontier-
Custom-house Inspection

II. Warsaw— Physiognomy of the City— Condition of
the Language and of the Theatre— Russianisa-
tion— Banishments

III. The Antecedents and Characteristics of the Poles

IV. The Poles and the French — Instability, Dilet-
tantism—Feverish Character of the Pleasures
of Life — Strength and Susceptibility of the
National Feeling

V. Consolidation of Everything Polish — Religious
Beliefs and Parties— Poland a Symbol


SECOND IMPRESSION (1886)
THE EXPULSION OF THE POLES BY PRUSSIA

I. The Polish Women

II. The Men— Polish Ideals, Virtues, and Vices

III. Education and Instruction— Democrats, Socialists,
Free-thinkers — Compulsory Choice of the Cultured

IV. Polish Life and the Russian System — Public
Festivities and Masquerades, Social Life in
Different Circles — The same Oppressive Atmos-
phere everywhere

V. The Censorship— Difficulties in obtaining Permission to
deliver Lectures

VI. How One Writes and Speaks under a Censorship.

VII. Mental Effects of the Situation on the Young

VIII. Is Poland as an Object worth the Sacrifices


THIRD IMPRESSION (1894)
A POLISH MANOR-HOUSE

I. Neighbourhood — Landscape — Increased Severity
of Russian Rule

II. Cholera — Censorship — Arrests

III. Monotony and Stillness — Summer-night Sentiments — Political Divergence of the Older and Younger Generations

IV. Poland and France— Poland and Germany

V. A Church Festival— Popular Beliefs

VI. The Memorial Procession of 1894 — Painters and
Writers

VII. A Common Domestic Occurrence, Significant of
the State of the Country

VIII. National Characteristics and Patriotism — Conclusion-


FOURTH IMPRESSION (1899)
I.-VIII. Lemberg


THE ROMANTIC LITERATURE OF POLAND
IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
(1886)

POINTS OF CONTACT IN POLISH AND DANISH
LITERATURE

I. Tendencies Common to all European Literatures
— Peculiar Features — Retrospect — Kocha-
nowski—Skarga— Jesuitism— French Philosophy
—Rationalism

II. Polish Romanticism Determined by the Character
of the People, by European Romanticism and
the Political Situation — Special Points of
View for the Antithesis of Classic and Ro-
mantic — Worship of Napoleon and Byron-
Relation to Shakespeare and Dante — Influ-
ence of Emigrant Life on the Sentiment of
Writers

III. Brodzinski, The Pioneer of Romanticism -- Popular Ballads --
The Ukrainian Poets: Malczewski, Zaleski, Goszcynski

IV. Mickiewicz and Goethe — Faris and the Ode to
Youth— Youth of Mickiewicz — Mickiewicz and Pushkin

V. The Political Situation Determines the Manner
of Treating all Subjects, the Point of View
for Love and Hate, Maternal and Filial Emo-
tions, the Relation between the Individual and
the People, between Genius and the Surround-
ing World, between Emotion and Reason, Rela-
tion to Religion and Philosophy

Vl. The Two Principal Themes of the Leading Poets
Mickiewicz, Slowacki, and Krasinski : The First
Two the Poets of Vengeance, Krasinski the
Poet of Love

VII. The Character of Hamlet in Poland— The Type of
Hamlet Conceived on Radical Lines by Slowacki,
and on Conservative Lines by Krasinski

VIII. "Pan Tadeusz," the only Epopee of the Century --
Mickiewicz and Rzewuski -- Importance of Mickiewicz

IX. Division Among the Poets— Disorganisation of
Romanticism— Polish Literature of To-Day—
Critical Summary

X. Conclusion