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THE present translation of Pan Tadeusz is based on the editions

of Biegeleisen (Lemberg, 1893) and Kallenbach (Brody, 1911). I

have had constantly by me the German translation by Lipiner (ed.

2, Leipzig, 1898) and the French translation by Ostrowski (ed. 4,

Paris, 1859), and am deeply indebted to them. The English

translation by Miss Maude Ashurst Biggs (Master Thaddeus; or, The

Last Foray in Lithuania: London, 1885) I did not have at hand

until my own version was nearly complete; after that I consulted

it only very rarely. I do not think that I am under obligation to

it in more than a half-dozen scattered lines of my text.