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of count Mostowski, Warsaw 1804-5, 12 volumes. They appeared in 1824 at Breslau in a stereotype edition, in six volumes. Poetical works, Warsaw 1778.] [Footnote 53: Lelewel is the author of quite a number of historical productions of importance; and some others he published or translated. A catalogue of his works cannot be expected here. The most celebrated are his volume on the primitive Lithuanians (Wilna 1808); on the condition of Science and Arts in Poland before the invention of printing; on the Geography of the Ancients; on the Commerce of the Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Romans; on the history of the ancient Indians; on the discoveries of the Carthaginians and Greeks (Warsaw 1829), etc. Also a Polish Bibliography (Warsaw 1823-1826); Monuments of the language and constitution of Poland, Warsaw 1824, etc.] [Footnote 54: See the preceding note.] [Footnote 55: _O Slawianach i ich pobratymcach_, Warsaw 1816.] [Footnote 56: Bentkowski's _Historya literatury Polsk_. Warsaw 1814, contains a catalogue of all works published on Polish literature, to 1814; sec Vol. I p. 1-73.] [Footnote 57: Krasicki's complete works were published by Dmochowski, Warsaw 1803-4. A stereotype edition appeared at Breslau in 1824.] [Footnote 58: P. 221 Niemcewicz'a works have not yet been collected. Of his _Spiewy historyene_, or 'Historical Songs,' Warsaw 1819, Bowring gives some specimens. These songs were set to music by distinguished Polish composers, especially ladies; and, on account of their deep patriotic interest, have reached a higher degree of popularity than any other Polish work. They were written at the instigation of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Science. Besides his two historical works, _Dzicie panowania Zygmunta III_, or Reign of Sigismund III, Warsaw 1819, and _Zbior pamietnikow_, etc. a collection of imprinted documents, Warsaw 1822; and his large historical novel _Jan z Teczyna_, Warsaw 1825; Niemcewicz published _Leyba i Szora_, or Letters of Polish Jews, Warsaw 1821, presenting an illustration of their situation. His most recent production, an elegiac poem, was published at Leipzig 1833. See below, p. 286.] [Footnote 59: The fourth volume appeared at Paris; where also his earlier poetry was reprinted in 1828 under the title _Poezye Adama Mickiewicza_.] [Footnote 60: Author of the work _Die Philosophie in ihrem Verhaltnisse zum Leben ganzer Volker_, Erlangen 1822.] [Footnote 61: The first wrote _Gru
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