FOOTNOTES:
Footnote 1: This name is derived from baba an old woman.
Footnote 2: Sapyeha.
Footnote 3: Lvoff.
Footnote 4: Self-lord Zamoyski.
Footnote 5: Zamoyski was starosta of Kaluj.
Footnote 6: “Strachy na Lachy” (Terror on Poles) is a Polish saying, about equivalent to “impossible.”
Footnote 7: “Two-bridged” or “of two bridges,” from bis and pons.
Footnote 8: Byes means “devil;” so Byes Cornutus is “horned devil.”
Footnote 9: Rogaty means “horned.” Borzobogaty means “quickly rich.” Bardzorogaty means “greatly horned.”
Footnote 10: This means that if Zagloba had been preceptor to the hetman or Kovalski, they would have had better wit. “Having a stave loose or lacking in his barrel,” means, in Polish, that a man’s mind is not right.
THE END.
THE ZAGLOBA ROMANCES
by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Translated from
the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin.
WITH FIRE AND SWORD
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One of the most remarkable books of the decade. It burns upon the brain the struggles and triumphs of the early Church.—Boston Daily Advertiser.
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The construction of the story is beyond praise. It is difficult to conceive of any one who will not pick the book up with eagerness.—Chicago Evening Post.
A book that holds your almost breathless attention as in a vise from the very beginning, for in it love and strife, the most thrilling of all worldly subjects, are described masterfully.—The Boston Journal.
Another remarkable book. His descriptions are tremendously effective; one can almost hear the sound of the carnage; to the mind’s eye the scene of battle is unfolded by a master artist.—The Hartford Courant.
Thrillingly dramatic, full of strange local color and very faithful to its period, besides having that sense of the mysterious and weird that throbs in the Polish blood and infects alike their music and literature.—The St. Paul Globe.