THOUSANDS OF VILLAGES DESTROYED Henry Sienkiewicz, the great Polish writer and author of "Quo Vadis," a refugee in Switzerland, said, on March 15, 1915: "In the kingdom of Poland alone there are 15,000 villages burned or damaged; a thousand churches and chapels destroyed.

Such is to-day the fate of the author of the powerful historical trilogy: "With Fire and Sword," "The Deluge" and "Pan Michael," preceded by short stories, "Lillian Morris," "Yanko the Musician," "After Bread," "Hania," "Let Us Follow Him," followed by two problem novels, "Without Dogma," and "Children of the Soil," and crowned by a masterpiece of an incomparable artistic beauty, "Quo Vadis."

Some other author would perhaps have stopped after producing "Quo Vadis," without any doubt the best of Sienkiewicz's books.

Sienkiewicz's face, looking on us from his books, is not always the same; it changes, and in his last book ("Quo Vadis") it is quite different, almost new.

In "Quo Vadis" the whole alta Roma, beginning with slaves carrying mosaics for their refined masters, and ending with patricians, who were so fond of beautiful things that one of them for instance used to kiss at every moment a superb vase, stands before our eyes as if it was reconstructed by a magical power from ruins and death.

This idea is woven as golden thread in a silk brocade, not only in "Quo Vadis," but also in all his novels.

It seems to us that in "Quo Vadis" Sienkiewicz strained all his forces to reproduce from one side all the power, all riches, all refinement, all corruption of the Roman civilization in order to get a better contrast with the great advantages of the cry of the living faith: Pro Christo!

BY HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ AUTHOR OF "WITH FIRE AND SWORD," "THE DELUGE," "QUO VADIS," ETC.

CROWELL (THOMAS Y.) COMPANY, NEW YORK Quo vadis.

R90763, 15Feb52, A. Franklin Shull (A) SIENKIEWICZ, HENRYK. Quo vadis; a tale of the time of Nero.

Quo vadis, Freemasonry?

Quo vadis, Freemasonry?

CROWELL (THOMAS Y.) COMPANY, NEW YORK Quo vadis.

R90763, 15Feb52, A. Franklin Shull (A) SIENKIEWICZ, HENRYK. Quo vadis; a tale of the time of Nero.

Quo vadis, Freemasonry?

Quo vadis, Freemasonry?

About a mile from the present wall, just where the road divides before coming to the Catacombs of St. Callixtus, a little, ugly, white church, of the deformed architecture of the seventeenth century, recalls, by its name of Domine quo vadis?