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 Malczewski, Zaleski, Goszcynski IV. Mickiewicz and Goethe—Faris and the Ode to Youth—Youth of Mickiewicz—Mickiewicz and Pushkin V.