Bibliographical Note
One of the most useful aids to the study of questions relating to Poland is Professor E. Romer’s admirable Geographic and Statistical Atlas of Poland, published in Polish, French, and German: Warsaw and Cracow, 1916. An English edition is soon to be issued.
Almost all sides of Polish life today, political, economic, intellectual, and artistic, are described in compendious and scholarly fashion, and with an abundance of maps, statistics, and historical information, in the works published during the War by the Committee for Encyclopaedic Publications on Poland. This Committee has published La petite Encyclopédie polonaise, Paris-Lausanne, 1916 (translated into English under the title: Poland, her People, History, Industries, Finance, Science, Literature, Art, and Social Development); and the larger Encyclopédie polonaise, Fribourg-Lausanne, 1917-19, of which vols. i (geography and ethnography), ii, pt. 3 (territorial development of Polish nationality—in four volumes), iii (economic life), and iv (political and administrative regime) have hitherto appeared.
A very convenient handbook of statistical data about Poland is the Annuaire statistique polonais by E. Romer and I. Weinfeld, Cracow, 1917.
E. H. Lewinski-Corwin’s Political History of Poland, New York, 1917, is perhaps the best account of the subject available in English, although marred by a certain amount of patriotic exaggeration and party prejudice.
Among works dealing with the several territories which have been in dispute, the following are notable:
On Prussian Poland: Ludwig Bernhard, Die Polenfrage. Leipzig, 1910. (A moderate German view.) Joseph Partsch, Schlesien, pts. 1-2. Breslau, 1896-1911. “Liber” (C. Andrzejewski), Das Deutschtum in Westpolen (Preussisch-Polen), seine Zahl, seine Gliederung, sein Stärkeverhältniss gegenüber den Polen. Posen, 1919.
On the Galician question: W. Lutoslawski and E. Romer, The Ruthenian Question in Galicia. Paris, 1919. H. Grappin, Polonais et ruthènes. La question de Galicie. Paris, 1919. Both these works are partisan statements from the Polish side. M. Lozynsky, Les “Droits” de la Pologne sur la Galicie. Lausanne, 1917. E. Levitsky, La Guerre polono-ukrainienne en Galicie. Berne, 1919. This and the preceding represent the Ukrainian point of view.
On the question of Poland’s eastern frontier: L. Wasilewski, Die Ostprovinzen des alten Polenreichs. Cracow, 1916. By all means the most complete and illuminating survey of Poland’s past relations with Lithuania, White Russia, and the Ukraine, and of the recent growth of nationalist movements in those regions. K. Verbelis, La Lituanie russe. Geneva, 1918. (Lithuanian views and claims.) T. Savtchenko, L’Ukraine et la question ukrainienne. Paris, 1918. (Views of a Ukrainian nationalist.)
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