Bits of Table Talk on Pushkin, Mickiewicz Goethe, Turgenev and Sienkiewicz

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.