GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF POLAND
byStephen P. Mizwa, ed.., The Macmillan Cos.,New York, pp. 597, $4.00.
A former Dartmouth professor, William J. Rose, now Director of the School of Slavonic Studies, University of London, and a present professor, Eric P. Kelly '06, were members of the editorial board that helped compile material for portions of this book. Dr. Rose contributed chapters on Stanislaus Konarski, an Eighteenth Century educator, and Stanislaus Staszic, a scientist and social crusader, 1755-1826. Professor Kelly contributed the chapter on Helena Modjeska, actress in Poland and America, 1840-1909.
Several o£ the authors are themselves prisoners in German concentration camps and therefore their names are withheld. The chapter titles include such names as Kasimir the Great, a king who united Poland in the Fourteenth Century, Queen Jadwiga who in 1386 united Poland and Lithuania, Copernicus, Sobieski, Kosciuszko, Pulaski, Chopin, Matejko, Sienkiewicz (author of Quo Vadis and the Trilogy), Joseph Conrad, Marie (Madame) Sklodowska Curie, Paderewski, Reymont, and Pilsudski. The editor in chief is director of the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York.
