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xii practical, or the æsthetic, has ever dreamed it. She has converted the absorption of knowledge into a child's game—a pleasure. Her style throughout is the simplest, the most facile for children to grasp. ... Her utterances are hearty without being boisterous; most playful and humorous without being loquacious. Her work is a model text-book; and just therefore, a finished work of art." "From Goteborg Morgan Posten: "The fame of her literary greatness goes forward without a dissenting voice; fills her own land, and travels far and wide outside its borders... Just as modestly as she points a moral, just so delicately and unobtrusively does she give information. Everything comes to you through the adventures, or through the concrete images of imagination's all-compelling form. ... No one who has retained a particle of his child mind can escape the genuine witchery of the poesy in 'Nils Holgersson.'"

A new history of literature, entitled "Frauen der Gegenwart", by Dr. Theodore Klaiber, mentions Miss Lagerlöf as the foremost woman