Atlas Polski Eugeniusza Romera (Z powodu drugiego wydania)

Summary

This document comprises a brief note on intelligence testing of children in a model school using the Binet-Simon scale (29 children examined by January 1922), and a substantial review of the second edition of Eugeniusz Romer's *Atlas Polski* (Atlas of Poland). The reviewer praises the atlas as a monumental work integrating geography, statistics, and cartographic art. Its innovative method uses color to represent physical and human phenomena, achieving a synthetic picture of Poland's natural environment, population, economy, and culture. The atlas includes maps of topography, geology, climate, vegetation, historical/administrative divisions, demographic patterns, ethnic Polish settlements, religious structure, land ownership, agriculture, mining, industry, savings, and communications. It reveals important insights, such as the strength of Polish ethnicity in northeastern borderlands, the dominance of large estates, the high productivity of Prussian Poland due to advanced culture, and the deliberate neglect of transport infrastructure in former Kingdom of Poland. The review concludes that the atlas is an indispensable scientific and artistic achievement that corrects foreign misconceptions and supports Polish national claims. It is considered "probably the best key that has yet appeared to the understanding of the Polish problem" (Robert Lord).