12 FEBRUARY 1916, Page 22

• Tales by . Polish Antkors. Translated .by Elsa C. M.`'Benecke.

(B. H. Blackwell, Oxford. 3s. 6d. net.)--Four stories• by con-. I temporary 'Polish novelists. In all the writing has style and. atmospheres' though the latter is one of extreme melancholy: Perhaps the strongest of the tales is M.' Henryk-.Sienkilswitz'S pitilessly realistic 'psychological study of " 11:artiste the • Con-- queror," a typical Polish -Soldier who fought in the war of-1870.' More attractive is " Srul -from Liibart6w," by Adam Szymaisski the little Jewish exile front. Warsaw. who was so eager' to learn from another exile newly arrived from the city 'whether kidney-beans still grew around his nativesplace; for he had not one in flower foci three years ! • M.- WaClaw SieroszewSki's: stories Of the Yakut and Ttingu tribeS have a welcome tetiehot colour and roinance.