Sympathy and spirituality were qualities found, not alone in _Quo Vadis_ but in many other works in fiction by this Polish writer. _Knights of the Cross_, recounting the struggle between the Poles and Lithuanians against the Teutons, is a favorite with many readers. _After Bread: a Story of Polish Emigrant Life in America_ (also entitled, _For Daily Bread_ and _Peasants in Exile_) is typical of his tales of emigration. _On the Field of Glory_ celebrates Sobieski’s rescue of Vienna. Few authors have been so fortunate in English translators as this Polish novelist. Jeremiah Curtin, S. A. Binion, and S. C. de Soissons are among the best known; they have given fine interpretations to his historical trilogy, his religious novel, and such other stories as _On the Field of Glory_, _On the Bright Shore_, _In Desert and Wilderness_, _That Third Woman_, and _In Vain_. Sienkiewicz lived until 1916, alert and productive, ever exemplifying the word that he used in a criticism of Zola, “The novel should strengthen life, not undermine it; ennoble it, not defile it; bring good tidings, not evil.” LADISLAW STANISLAW REYMONT The prize of 1924 has been awarded: To Reymont, Ladislaw, born 1868: “For his great epic, _The Peasants_.”[167] Again, a new generation has come “to hold the candle to light the dark corners of the earth” in Poland, since Henryk Sienkiewicz wrote his novels of historical and religious potency. A new group of authors had come forward, many of them scarcely known outside their racial confines. Among the better known of the representatives of “Young Poland” is Ladislaw Reymont to whom the Nobel prize was given in 1924. A few weeks before this award was made public there appeared a translation of the first part of the four-volume novel, _The Peasants_ by Reymont, with the title, _Autumn_ (Knopf, New York, 1925). The translator was Michael H. Dziewicki, Professor of English Literature at the University of Cracow. The book attracted meager attention until the Nobel prize was announced; then a furor of interest was aroused in this first volume and those to appear since then--_Winter_, _Spring_, and _Summer_. Reymont had visited America twice but escaped much publicity. He had been translated into English as author of _The Comedienne_ (1920), the tale of a girl who sought to be beautiful and famous on the stage but ended in “philisticism.” Some of his short stories had been included in a collection of Polish tales, in the Oxford University series of _World Classics_ (1921). An extract from his industrial novel, _The Promised Land_, was used in the _Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature_, edited by Paul Selver, in 1921. He has written more than a score of novels, and is well known and commended in Germany. Comparisons to Sienkiewicz reveal more pictorial skill, more dramatic vigor like that of Dumas, in the older writer, but a realistic force of surpassing effects in Reymont.