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THE YEARBOOK
Michele Saponaro. La Vigilia. Peccato. Fiorella. Amore di Terra Lontana. La Casa Senze Sole. Nostra Madre. L’Altra Sorella. L’Uomo. Le Ninfe e i Satiri. Le Mie Cinque Fidanzate.
Nino Savarese. Pensieri e allegorie. Piccoli romanzi Trovamale. Ricordi di strada.
Jugoslavia
Momchilo Miloshlevitch. Prolasnitchi. Pod sharim krovom soneti. Pred obnovom pesme. Savremene uritchi. Moje tsarstvo pesme.
Latvia
Janis Akuraters. Born in 1876. He has made his mark in Lettish literature as a novelist as well as a lyrical poet and a dramatist. For his dramas he seeks his stuff largely in ancient Lettish lore and has dramatised the old Lettish and Livland heroes Wiesturs, Kaupo. . . . His latest collection of short stories is called Erosa cilts (Eros), from which the tale Death is chosen. An important essay by Akuraters on l’Influence de la civilisation française en Latvie, appeared in the Revue Bleue for 1924 (No. 7).
Anna Brigader. Born in 1869. In 1922 she celebrated the jubilee of her literary activity and was made the recipient of many tokens of popular favour, notably of an estate named “Spriditis,” after the name of the hero of her best-known play. While she has written novels and verse of considerable merit her chief reputation rests on her dramatic works: Ilga. Heteras mantojums. Spriditis (fairy tale). In her Dzelzs dure (The Iron Fist) she gives some remarkable descriptions of conditions in Riga in 1918-19, during the German occupation.
Janis Ejerins. Born in 1891. Briva Zeme. Der Lei erkast en. Der rosige Esel. Leijerkaste.
Andrejs Upitis. Born in 1877. During the short reign of Communism in Latvia he was Commissary for Art and Culture in Riga. He spent some time in Soviet Russia, then returned to Latvia and resumed his literary activities. His last work is Die Metamorphosen, from which
the short story, The Golden Staircase, is chosen.
Norway
Kristian Elster. Uncle Ferdinand. Skyggernes Slaegt. Den Skjonne Ungdom.
Poland
Zygmunt Bartkiewicz. Born in 1870 in Lódz. Author of short stories of animal life, full of fine sentiment and understanding of the psychology of animals, as well as of the life of the slums of big cities. Great mastery in the psychological drawing of human weakness and of the sadness of every-day life of the forgotten. Souls of dogs (Psie dusze). Feeble Hearts (Slabe serca). With Blood and Ink (Krwia i atramentem).
Kornel Makuszynski. Born in 1882 in Stryj, near the Carpathian Mountains, studied in the high school of Lwow and in the university of Lwow. Author of many short stories, literary sketches and some
