SR partial reprints: Poland - The Knight Among Nations
SR partial reprints: Poland - The Knight Among Nations

Summary/Abstract: Louis E. Van Norman, Poland: The Knight Among Nations. Introduction by Helena Modjeska. New York-Chicago-Toronto-Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company (New York: 158 Fifth Avenue, Chicago: 80 Wabash Avenue, Toronto: 25 Richmond St W., London: 21 Paternoster Square, Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street), 1907. 2d edition. 359 pages, index. Hardcover. "In the following pages no attempt is made to write a history of Poland, or to present a comprehensive study of the Polish national psychology. To sound the depth of racial character would require many years of actual life near the heart of the people, and elaborate historical research. Nor has the writer ventured to prophesy the political future of the Poles. Nor, finally, has he attempted to describe the condition of Russian Polish cities during the reign of terror of the past two years. The following chapters, many of which have already appeared as magazine articles in this country and in England, are no more than the first-hand impressions of an American journalist who has been permitted to spend a year in the former Polish Commonwealth, visiting almost all the important historical points.[...]"

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