Another history of Poland of more extent was published by G.S.  Bantkie.  Lelewel said of the second edition of this book, which appeared in 1820, that “a more perfect work in this department did not exist.”

One of the most remarkable writers of his time, on history and bibliography, was the Jesuit Albertrandy; who, besides being the author of several historical works and treatises, was indefatigable in collecting materials for the history of his country.  He went to Italy, and here gathered during a stay of three years a hundred and ten folio volumes of extracts, entirely written with his own hand.  He then went to Stockholm and Upsal, where the most important manuscripts relative to Poland are deposited.  The Swedish government was narrow-minded enough, to allow him access to their libraries only on condition of his not taking any written notes.  But Albertrandy had so remarkable a memory, that he was able to make up for this disadvantage, by writing down every evening all that he had read during the day, and added in this way not less than ninety folio volumes to his library of manuscripts.

Portions of Polish history, or subjects belonging to it, were treated with success by the poet Niemcewicz; by Bentkowski, Kwiatkowski, Soltykowicz, Surowiecki, Lelewel, Onacewicz, the counts Ossolinski and Czacki, the former distinguished by learning and critical discernment, the latter the author of an esteemed history of the Polish and Lithuanian laws; by Maiewski, Siarczynski, and others.  The princess Isabella Czartoryski intended her “Pilgrim of Dobromil,” to be a book of historical instruction for the common people.  Abridgments of Polish history were given by Miklaszcwski and Falenski.  The historical songs written by Niemcewicz, at the instigation of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Science, are also to be considered as belonging to history, as well as to poetry, since they are accompanied by valuable historical illustrations.  The same author wrote Memoirs on ancient Poland.  Turski translated the memoirs of Choisain on the administration of Henry of Valois; and the memoirs of Michael Oginski, Sur la Pologne et les Polonais depuis 1788 jusqu’en 1815, are a valuable contribution to the history of our time.  Memoirs of J. Kilinski, a shoemaker by trade, but like the butcher Sierakowski, a successful revolutionary leader in 1795, were published in 1830.  The modern periodicals likewise contain many well written historical essays, some of them of decided importance.  This is especially true of the Memoirs of Warsaw, and also of Lemberg, the Scientific Memoirs, the Wilna and Warsaw Journals, the Bee of Cracow, the Ant of Poznania, and others.