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396 successfully entered the field of popular life. In this department (born 1807) has made her reputation. She spent her childhood and early youth on the rocky shores of Bohuslän, and in her best works, "Rosen på Tistelön," "Enslingen på Johannisskäret," and "Et Köpemanshus i Skargärden,"Ett Köpmanshus i Skärgården [sic] she has given us scenes and incidents from the home of childhood. She has also written novels which describe life in the higher circles of society. She does not possess Miss Bremer's ideal view of life nor Sofia Knorring's graceful vivacity, but she is superior to both in the arrangement of her materials and in her varied and faithful pictures of nature and popular life.

(born 1804) began in 1840 the publication of his stories and novels, which he has continued to the present, using the pseudonym, and borrowing his materials chiefly from every-day life and from the lower classes of the population. His works are pervaded by a very humane sentiment and show a fine talent for observation, and his style, through which there breathes a gentle humor, frequently attains the highest degree of perfection. It is not strange, therefore, that his stories have found great favor with the reading public, and that they have not yet lost any of their old power to charm. The most important among them are, "GenremälningarGenremålningar [sic]," "Pastorsadjunten," and "EtEtt [sic] Namn." In his old age he has published a collection of very graceful lyrics under the title of "Blad ur Katarina Mänsdotters minesbok " (Leaves from the journal of Katarina Mänsdotter, the wife of Erik XIV).

(1811-68) has produced many excellent things in the way of novels and tales, and his short stories contained in "Taflor och Berättelser" and "Bilder ur verk-