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I. Journey from Vienna to Warsaw— The Frontier- Custom-house Inspection 3 II. Warsaw— Physiognomy of the City— Condition of the Language and of the Theatre— Russianisa- tion— Banishments n III. The Antecedents and Characteristics of the Poles 22 IV. The Poles and the French — Instability, Dilet- tantism—Feverish Character of the Pleasures OF Life — Strength and Susceptibility of the National Feeling 31 V. Consolidation of Everything Polish — Religious Beliefs and Parties— Poland a Symbol . .41 SECOND IMPRESSION (1886) THE EXPULSION OF THE POLES BY PRUSSIA I. The Polish Women 53 II. The Men— Polish Ideals, Virtues, and Vices . . 58 vi CONTENTS rACE III. Education AND Instruction— Democrats, Socialists, Free-thinkers — Compulsory Choice of the Cultured 66 IV. Polish Life and the Russian System — Public Festivities and Masquerades, Social Life in Different Circles — The same Oppressive Atmos- phere everywhere 78 V. The Censorship— Difficulties in obtaining Per- mission to deliver Lectures 85 VI. How ONE Writes and Speaks under a Censorship. 93 VII. Mental Effects of the Situation on the Young . 96 VIII. Is Poland as an Object worth the Sacrifices made for it ? 103 THIRD IMPRESSION (1894) A POLISH MANOR-HOUSE I. Neighbourhood — Landscape — Increased Severity OF Russian Rule 109 II. Cholera — Censorship — Arrests 115 III. Monotony and Stillness — Summer-night Senti- ments — Political Divergence of the Older and Younger Gener-iTions 121 IV. Poland and France— Poland and Germany . .129 V. A Church Festival— Popular Beliefs . . .136 VI. The Memorial Procession of 1894 — Painters and Writers 142 VII. A Common Domestic Occurrence, Significant of the State of the Country 150 VIII. National Characteristics and Patriotism — Con- clusion 156 FOURTH IMPRESSION (1899) I.-VIII. Lemberg .165 CONTENTS vu THE ROMANTIC LITERATURE OF POLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1886) POINTS OF CONTACT IN POLISH AND DANISH LITERATURE PACK I. Tendencies Common to all European Literatures — Peculiar Features — Retrospect — Kocha- nowski—Skarga— Jesuitism— French Philosophy —Rationalism 192 J 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 199 III. BRODZINSKI, THE PlONEER OF ROMANTICISM— POPULAR Ballads — The Ukrainian Poets: Malczewski, Zaleski, Goszcynski 215 IV. MiCKIEWICZ AND GOETHE— FARIS AND THE ODE TO Youth— Youth of Mickiewicz — Mickiewicz and Pushkin 224 . 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 .... 239 viii CONTENTS PACK ^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 253 VIL The Character of Hamlet in Poland— The Type of Hamlet Conceived on Radical Lines by Slowacki, and on Conservative Lines by Krasinski . . 269 VIIL "Pan Tadeusz," the only Epopee of the Century — MiCKIEWICZ AND RZEWUSKI — IMPORTANCE OF MICKIEWICZ 282 IX. Division Among the Poets— Disorganisation of Romanticism— Polish Literature of To-Day— Critical Summary 295 ^ X. Conclusion 308
