and Upsal, where the most important manuscripts relative
to Poland are deposited. The Swedish government was narrow-minded
enough, to allow him access to their libraries only on condition of
his not taking any written notes. But Albertrandy had so remarkable
a memory, that he was able to make up for this disadvantage, by
writing down every evening all that he had read during the day, and
added in this way not less than ninety folio volumes to his library of
manuscripts.

Portions of Polish history, or subjects belonging to it, were treated
with success by the poet Niemcewicz; by Bentkowski, Kwiatkowski,
Soltykowicz, Surowiecki, Lelewel, Onacewicz, the counts Ossolinski and
Czacki, the former distinguished by learning and critical discernment,
the latter the author of an esteemed history of the Polish and
Lithuanian laws; by Maiewski, Siarczynski, and others. The princess
Isabella Czartoryski intended her "Pilgrim of Dobromil," to be a book
of historical instruction for the common people. Abridgments of Polish
history were given by Miklaszcwski and Falenski. The historical songs
written by Niemcewicz, at the instigation of the Warsaw Society of
Friends of Science, are also to be considered as belonging to history,
as well as to poetry, since they are accompanied by valuable
historical illustrations. The same author wrote Memoirs on ancient
Poland. Turski translated the memoirs of Choisain on the
administration of Henry of Valois; and the memoirs of Michael Oginski,
_Sur la Pologne et les Polonais depuis 1788 jusqu'en 1815_, are a
valuable contribution to the history of our time. Memoirs of J.
Kilinski, a shoemaker by trade, but like the butcher Sierakowski, a
successful revolutionary leader in 1795, were published in 1830. The
modern periodicals likewise contain many well written historical
essays, some of them of decided importance. This is especially true of
the _Memoirs_ of Warsaw, and also of Lemberg, the _Scientific
Memoirs_, the Wilna and Warsaw _Journals_, the _Bee_ of Cracow, the
_Ant_ of Poznania, and others.

We have remarked above, as a characteristic of the Polish literature,
that although Poland was never poor in talents of various kinds, yet
its literary contributions have aimed less at the advancement of
science in general, than to exalt the glory of the Polish name, and
thus have an immediate reflexive influence on the nation. In the same
spirit, the history of other countries has received little atten