ANTONI, an eminent Polish poet, was born about 1792 in Volhynia. At the age of nineteen he entered the Polish army, and was afterwards in the suite of the Emperor Alexander I. until 1816, when, owing to a duel which he had fought, he was forced to quit the service. After travelling for the next five years in Switzerland, Italy, and France; he settled in the Ukraine as a farmer, and devoted his leisure hours to poetry. Compelled, however, by the voice of scandal to leave that district, he removed with a diminished fortune to Moscow. He died there in great poverty in 1825. Malezewski's principal poem, Maria, a Tale of the Ukraine, was published at Warsaw shortly before his death. It was printed in the original in London in 1836.