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       TALES BY POLISH AUTHORS


               London
    SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & Co., LTD.


              New York
        LONGMANS, GREEN & Co.
    FOURTH AVENUE AND 30TH STREET




                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 Lubartow' 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