Silesia. The Poles of Russian Poland collected one million marks and sent them to Yasko.

The ship "Purple" represents Poland and its career 9 and is a very brief summary of the essence and meaning of Polish history. Like some of the author's most beautiful short productions, it was written for a benevolent object, all the money obtained for it being devoted to that object.

All persons who have read "Charcoal Sketches," in Sienkiewicz's "Hania" will be interested to learn the origin of that striking production. It was written mainly and finished in Los Angeles, Cal., as Sienkiewicz told me in Switzerland six years ago, but it was begun at Anaheim Landing, as is described in the