Excerpt from The History of Poland: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time<br><br>The singular orthography of the names is not the least difficulty we have to encounter in the minutiae of Polish history, and it has been greatly increased by the attempts of most writers to reduce them nearer to their pronunciation. Chevalier, in his Preface to the Histoire de la Guerre des Cosaques, published in 1663, justly complains of the custom of authors, even in his time, to estropier, as he terms it, these words; and the Revue encyclopedique also points out the absurdity of it. The Author has endeavoured to give the Polish spelling as correctly as possible, and sub joins the following hints for pronunciation, taken principally from the Letters, Literary and Po litical, on Poland, Edinburgh.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.