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i. rn-:i:. \TITIE, covnxr.vr \i, IN 1897. 



n ami P- land. r a jubilee 



ntoohowsk 



begun. S. Diek-Mn'x Ib- -n. \\ r i.-ki : Hi- Life 

 with an enigmatic rhar.i 



f Poli>h Paint- 



, mow ski is the Uompberof the painter 

 "Matcjko." mill has issued two more volum 

 "Literary Studi.-"; K :;!> with 



-Books of P.'!i-h Hum.. i 



f -.Itiliu- ." the 



14 greatest Polish poet after ? 



to be n< >t M in. In. Irs. ID the first place. "Tin- Phara- 



Pras: two other 



i, :,.;,;,.-, \\. i- -v.ki's -The Knighl 



Mom levtoteenth-oentar? 



Poland i ntnl T.'.l. G'hoinski'a "The I 



\ . ! ' . ki. " As" (his- 



.ui.l "The ivi. MI the 



I'M,- Sailed (iirl." I iy W. Kosiakie- 



fted narrator); M. lialucki's " Wis ami 



' : >n > : M. La-kow-ki's 



.1 " itml "Grown into tin- Ground "; 



K. Glinski'- "Tin- Defeat" (a rural idvl: \\ 



monf- "The Female Comedian " MM "Tin- Fer- 



ments"; \V. Gomulicki's |K>otical and thought fill 



"Pictures ..f Venice": Mini-. \V. Marrene'- "Ili- 



D Ordinary Man"; /a;Uka'* 



naturalistic -A Pin- Wife"; Mm.-. X. K-- 



werska's'Mn S-r\ i " : " Mlairicr/.y." by I. Rogosz; 



and "Odreboaistota," "PtonaSturnslu M 



! " Wielka partya." by \V. L.-. In poetry 



attontioiii-icallroi to HUM, M. Eonopoioka'fezodlent 



" Lint's ami Tum-s." K. T. tinaicr's selection of 



. ; I.. S/r/i-jian*ki. I*. Kos- 

 i..l. Kli-u . ai.l .1. Xnlaw>ki. hrama- 



tists appear to have I....-M active. ('in<len-lla" 

 \rha.llo"). by the late .1. S/ntkicwicx (author 

 also of -The BUI In the Foot"). A. Hi-lrikow-ki's 

 historical "A Markot-Woman of Warsaw." ami two 

 . : - ^I. Beloekfi "Hit Pmak BMTM" an-l 



"Tin- NVoiM,.ii." hy X. Pr7.ylylski and Klemens ,Iu- 

 nosza have been specially successful. Al-.t-- i-- 

 reconle.l an- K. Lvbowikri "The IMaythin. 

 Kozluwski's "The Tournament " (traced j in 



i principally in sr'cnic i-ffed i. ami S." Kmiikn-'s 

 ,.-ncy play" "I- it worth itf" Vol. I of F. 



"Dramatic Works" has appeared. 

 I' >i tntral. Few reports of literary activity reach 

 m this country. In belles-lettres there are 

 Jose Ramos-Coelho's "Larnpejos: Poesias" (1896); 

 " A mores, Amores," by Teixeira <le (^u-iroz < ! 

 ami Alf. liotelho's ** A'zul e Negro" (1897). 

 I'ortiifftirza" is a prominent magazine. The |M-ri- 

 heologo PortQfM*. colleceiV) illus- 

 trada de BlateriaeseN'oticia^ pnlilicadapelo MH--U 

 tfnMgnphioo Portogoftt Prehistoria, Fpiu r raphia. 

 Numismatic*, Arte Antiga" (Vol. I. lsr. take> up 

 rk fonn.-rly carri.-d .n by the drfum-t " U- - 

 vista archeologica e historica." 



imania and Montenegro. Roiimania has 

 BfbUograpbie do la Houinanie: Kullctin de la 

 Lihrarie." publi-hofl monthly at Huchan-i. " Lite- 

 ratur* si $tQnVf" is a half-yearlv collection of essays 

 and y. ami scientific, poblisbed 



by C. Dobrogoanii-fJherca in col lab.. rat ion with 

 The publicatioti defends the socialistic 



standpoint. and is one of the mnst noteworthy p 

 ooto of modern Iloumanian literature. " Fm -iclo- 

 peilia roniani publirati din insarcinarea si -uli Au- 

 ?jiriile Afciriafiunii transilvane p^ntru Litentan 

 51 Cultiira l'o|wiriilui roinan de('. Diacooorieb " i-< in 

 course of publication. Georges P.- in his 



" BiMio^raphi- franco-roumane du XIX* S 



relative to 



Koumania. and especially writings published in 

 French and in France by Roumanians, ha. 



creased con-jderably within the last t'.:' 

 AUK.: iJoiiinains de la 1 



Principautcs en 1S.V.; avec nne Preface par Alfred 

 Ik'ambaud 'lining. 1 he Mil.>lai 



six volumes published i.\ \ l> Xenonol m his 

 moth. \ socona serie- of Hclene \ 



reeoo*8 collection <>f b'ouinanian follx 



. under the title "The Hard ..f tin- Dimbu- 



inds from 



:iiam " have been pit heivd |,, 



men 9 pr-Hhici-d a ma, " t'llranda." 



in tbeeame yean ami Alma Stn-ttdl d v " 

 In Mod 1 . ! '; nice Nicholas, an ii 



iiolitical | -riivat ion 



iiis poem Pj.-Miiik iVila" ("The I',.,! ami the. 



which was "a fiery appeal i 



people of the Slavic races Mo unite against their 

 (ierman and Austrian oppressors.'** The 

 prince'^ " Fmpresx ,,f the lialK 

 of his ability a- a draimr 



BttM 1 1. Russian works in all departinei: 

 literature se-ni as num.: irer in the pub- 



lishers' lists, but not very much appear- worthy of 

 ,il note. K. (iiilnvin (a no\eli>t. known by 

 the pseudonym (>rlov-kii in "The 

 and Russian Society" dilates upon the int 

 connection between b'u-^ian life and literatur- 

 deploy the u r rtwinu r leiidem-y toward snperliciali- 

 ty. F.pially j.e imi-tic is Kan'-cf in " Thoughts on 

 t'he Essential Point -of Public Activity." cm bod \ in;; 

 "the sad pages of the history of K'n-ian sell 

 scioiisnes^." The adherents of F.com.mic 

 teriali-m" and " Mar\i-m " an- doomed to \\ 

 chantment, acc(,rdin<; to Kareef and Sloin 

 The latti-r's criticism appeared in the " Vi- 



py." and. in facj, we are informed that much 

 of the literary activity of Iiuia fiml- vent in the 

 monthly reviews. This holds true also of 6< 



M, of which comparatively little appe.-i' 

 separate volume-. Many of the books publi-hed 

 are on cdm-ational or 'technical (|m--: 

 enormous 



KhoiuiakolT: His Life and Work- " shov. 

 that Slavophilism has, a fact commented upon in 

 the " IJus-ian I,' ' U,.-n'ni.' 



F.-bruary. 1*!7. by V. F, K.. who ealN Slavophi- 

 lism "the very fruit of the life of our nation. 



I. " in Kus-ja t here is a oinet hinu r which 



uliarly its own." and it is this which i- 

 so earnestly -tudie.l. Hence the 

 liokj mentioned, and of the " 



~ki SlH.rnik"). by K. P. Pnbedoj,. 

 praised even by the -talesman's political and 



: 



blr. energetic, and logically foiiiulcd exposition of 

 our aims and ideals in the domain of reli^ioi. 

 rality. and p<.litics." Tshupn-fT and Po-niUlfs 

 "The Influence of Harvest and the Pri-- 

 upon Some Points of lius-jan National i 

 (finding profit for peasants in plentiful I, 

 low prices) has been men-ilelv criiici-ed. I' 

 boruikin's new novel In a Different Way" 'which 



i red in "Vje-tnik Ycvropy", i- rattier 

 le Iy written, but shows his "iju: -T all 



new manifestations of contemporary lil 

 thoughtful and observant rather than on 

 Further I. -f fiction, all published in re- 



K. Qolovin'a "Audrey Mologhin ** and 

 Miss Dmitrieir- "Mitinka the "Teacher," in the 

 " Furoj.e.m Messenjrer" c* Vie-tnik Vevropy " 



"The Little Corner of Cplchida'," Tirri- 

 khovsky'.s -The Assistant Pr "The M".i- 



jiks." a" sketch by A. Tchekhof (author al-o of the 



unsuccessful coined-. 



boruikin's "The Millions" in Thought "; 



. B. Xhelykhovskaia's "Degeneration," in the 



