Chapter I: Front Matter

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TALES BY POLISH AUTHORS

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TALES

BY

POLISH AUTHORS

HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ
STEFAN ZEROMSKI ADAM SZYMANSKI
WACLAW SIEROSZEWSKI

TRANSLATED BY
ELSE C. M. BENECKE

Oxford

B. H. BLACKWELL, BROAD STREET

1915

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

Of the contemporary Polish authors represented in this volume only Henryk Sienkiewicz is well known in England. Although the works of Stefan Zeromski, Adam Szymanski, and Waclaw Sieroszewski are widely read in Poland, none have as yet appeared in English, so far as the present translator is aware. 'Srul--from Lubartów' is generally considered one of the most striking of Adam Szymanski's Siberian 'Sketches.' The author writes from personal experience, having himself been banished to Siberia for a number of years. The same can be said of Waclaw Sieroszewski; during the fifteen years spent in Siberia as a political exile, he made a study of some of the native tribes, especially the Yakut and Tungus, and has written a great deal on this subject. Stefan Zeromski is also one of the most distinguished modern Polish novelists; several of his books have been translated into French and German.

The translator is under a deep obligation to the authors, MM. Sienkiewicz, Szymanski, and Zeromski, for kindly allowing her to publish these tales in English, and to Mr. J. H. Retinger, Secretary of the Polish Bureau in London, for authorising the same on behalf of M. Sieroszewski.

E. C. M. B.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE
Henryk Sienkiewicz: '_Bartek the Conqueror_' 1
Stefan Zeromski: '_Twilight_' 101
'_Temptation_' 113
Adam Szymanski: '_Srul--from Lubartów_' 119
Waclaw Sieroszewski: '_In Autumn_' 137
'_In Sacrifice to the Gods_' 163

POLISH PRONUNCIATION:

After k, rz = English sh.
sz = English sh
cz = English ch
l = English w
w = English v

BARTEK THE CONQUEROR

HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ