I. The Prose of Pushkin -- II. The Snowstorm -- III. The Nest of Gentlefolk and the "Poetry of Marriage and the Hearth" -- IV. Pushkin's "Monument" -- V. Adam Mickiewicz: Poland's Romantic Ambassador to the Court of Realism -- VI. Mickiewicz at the Collège de France -- VII. Ex Oriente Lux (Mickiewicz and Pushkin) -- VIII. Pushkin's Tazit and Mickiewicz's Konrad Wallenrod -- IX. Goethe and the Russian and Polish Romantics -- X. Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1946) -- A Vanished Glory -- The Lighthouse -- The Positivist -- Letters from America -- The Trilogy -- Without Dogma and The Polaniecki Family -- Quo Vadis? and The Teutonic Knights -- Politics and Morality -- Sienkiewicz as I saw him then and now.