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"And the young folk envied the fame of the bards, which in their

own land still echoes through the woods and the fields; of bards

to whom dearer than the laurel of the Capitol is a wreath plaited

by the hands of a village girl, of blue cornflowers and green

rue."

1 Quoted from a letter of Krasinski, by Kallenbach, Adam

Mickiewicz (Cracow, 1897), vol. ii. p. 174.

2 Poland, a Study of the Land, People, and Literature (London and

New York, 1903), p. 284.

3 Vilna on our maps; Wilno is the Polish spelling.

4 English readers are fortunate in possessing an excellent

account of the life and writings of Mickiewicz in the work by

Miss Monica M. Gardner, Adam Mickiewicz, the National Poet of

Poland (London and New York, 1911).

5 I am here indebted to Kallenbach (Adam Mickiewicz, Cracow,

1897), and Pilat (Introduction to edition of Pan Tadeusz of

_Towarzystwo Literackie_, Lemberg).

6 Bruckner, Geschichte der polnischen Litteratur (Leipzig, 1901),

p. 371.

7 By Franciszek Karpinski, 1741-1825.