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Editor: Ewa Thompson (Rice University).

Associate Editors: Tamara Trojanowska (University of Toronto), Bogdan Czaykowski (1932-2007).

Editorial Advisory Committee: George Gasyna (University of Illinois-Urbana), Janusz A. Ihnatowicz (University of Saint Thomas-Houston), Bozena Karwowska (University of British Columbia), Joseph A.Kotarba (University of Houston), Alex Kurczaba (University of Illinois-Chicago), Marcus D. Leuchter (Holocaust Museum Houston),Witold J. Lukaszewski (Sam Houston State University), Theresa Kurk McGinley (North Harris College-Houston), Michael J. Mikoś (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Jan Rybicki (Kraków Pedagogical University), Dariusz Skórczewski (Catholic University of Lublin), Piotr Wilczek (University of Silesia).

Copy Editor: Cyndy Brown

Web Pages: Matthew Hernandez (Rice University).

Web Address: <http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~sarmatia>.

Sarmatian Council: James Burns (Houston), Iga J. Henderson (Houston), Marek Kimmel (Rice University), Leonard M. Krazynski (First Honorary Polish Consul in Houston), James R. Thompson (Rice University).

In this issue:

SR Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1377

Mary Grabar, The Secret of Little Sister. Chapters 1 through 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1379

BOOKS Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1392

Thinking Peaceful Change, by John X. Knasas (review) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1393

Po co Sienkiewicz? Sienkiewicz a tožsamość narodowa, by Michael J. Mikoś

(review) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1395

The Last Mazurka, by Anna Muller

(review) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1396

For More Than Bread: Community and

Identity in American Polonia, by John

M. Grondelski (review). . . . . . . . .1398

Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1399

On Just and Unjust Wars (excerpt), by Stanisław of Skarbimierz . . . . . . . 1401

About the Authors. . . . . . . . . . . . .1401

Thank You Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1402