THE FELLOWSHIPS At the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation, on November 1, Professor William Hovgaard reported, as chairman of the Application Committee, that sixteen Fellows of the Foundation were now studying in the United States with stipends, besides two honorary Fellows. These included the ten Swedish Fellows under the new interchange, and two each from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden under the old arrangement with stipends from the Poulson Fund. Thirteen Americans were studying in Scandinavia, ten Fellows under the new SwedishAmerican interchange and three scholars with stipends from the Poulson Fund. The American Fellows for Sweden were selected by a special committee acting with the chairman of the old Application Committee and consisting of the following members: Professors H. P. Talbot and A. E. Kennelly of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professors J. W. Toumey and S. J. Record of Yale; and Professor W. Campbell of Columbia University. THE REVIEW Reluctantly the REVIEW has had to postpone monthly publication until 1920. We had gathered material for an unusually interesting special Book Number, scheduled to appear in November and to contain surveys of recent books in the Scandinavian countries. The printers' strike forced us to hold it for our first number in the New Year when it will appear with added fresh material on new books in the American book-market. Instead of issuing an extra number in 1919, we have enlarged our Yule Number to ninety-six pages, the largest we have ever published. We will begin monthly publication in January. The Editors are indebted to Mr. Ivar Kirkegaard, Mr. O. A. Linder, and Mr. Johs. B. Wist for their assistance in judging the stories submitted in the Christmas prize contest. SIGURJÖNSSON A career of wonderful promise was cut short by the death from heart disease of Jóhann Sigurjónsson, in Copenhagen, August 4, at only thirty-nine years of age. It is less than eight years since Eyvind of the Hills was first performed at the Dagmar Theatre with Johanne Dybvad in the title rôle and made the young author instantly famous. Among the five dramas he has left us it is still the greatest, indeed the only one in which he attains the full height of his powers, though all the others contain individual scenes of great delicacy and beauty. Sigurjónsson brought to the common stock of Scandinavian literature an element altogether unique, a combination of the grandeur and tragic power of the sagas with the idyllic charm of modern Icelandic life. We do not doubt that at least Eyvind of the Hills will endure among the greatest literary monuments of the North in this generation. THE EVENING POST. FIRST SWEDEN NUMBER. New York, Saturday, October 18, 1919. 44 pages The cover of the Post's first Sweden Number shows an idyllic scene, compound of husbandry and love-making, after the good old recipe. The inside, however, is almost wholly devoted to the new industrial, technical Sweden. Indeed, if it were not wrong to carp at so splendid a publication, I might say that it was too onesidedly efficient. I hope the other Sweden numbers which, I understand, are to appear before long, will contain something about Sweden's wonderful art both fine and applied, its old universities, and its homes in cottages and castles. Within the limits the editors have set themselves, the Sweden Number is no doubt the most valuable compendium of information on modern Sweden that any American newspaper has published. Following the admirable Scandinavian custom, important subjects are dealt with by experts instead of by reporters who catch their information on the run, and while we may not get such "good stories as by the American method, we get more meat. Among the special subjects that are treated authoritatively I notice the projected daily ferry to England; the free ports now being constructed at Stockholm, Göteborg, and Malmö; the iron industry, the wood industries, agriculture, the supply of water power; the growth of private banks, the finances of the State, the school system, the work of the General Export Association; the engineering profession with some of the chief Swedish inventions; and the proposed daily mail service between Sweden and the United States. Articles dealing with the friendly relations between Sweden and the United States are contributed by W. A. F. Ekengren, Minister from Sweden to the United States; Ira Nelson Morris, Minister from the United States to Sweden; Axel Robert Nordvall, Swedish High Commissioner to the United States; and Henry Goddard Leach, Secretary of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. For You! JOHAN BOJER has written his latest novel, fresh with its significant message for Everyman in THE FACE of the WORLD As universal in appeal as THE GREAT HUNGER In THE FACE OF THE WORLD is told the story of a young physician who, with the characteristic restlessness of our youth of today, craves to shoulder the troubles of the world. Bojer shows in the life story of this character, amid scenes rich in color, and in incident vividly dramatic, that it is better to save one soul by faith in him than to carry upon one's shoulders the burdens of mankind. "A big ironic book, very finely conceived and very finely executed." Just Published. At all Bookshops. MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY $1.75 net New York When answering advertisements, please mention THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN REView Brief Notes On the initiative of the Crown Prince, Sweden is taking part in the international collection for building up again, so far as possible, the ruined library of Louvain. The work is in charge of the librarian at Uppsala University, who reports excellent progress. Various institutions are sending in their publications, and individuals are donating books from their own shelves. Carl Sandburg is sharing equally with Margaret Widdemer a five hundred dollar prize awarded by Columbia University for the best book of poems published in 1918. His Cornhuskers appeared under the imprint of Henry Holt. Sandburg was born in Illinois of Swedish parents and is now living in Chicago. Christian Sinding has recently finished a symphony in F major on which he has been at work for some time. It is indicative of the fame Sinding has won abroad that the symphony, before it was completed, was accepted for the Gewandhaus concerts in Leipzig, where it is to be played under the direction of Arthur Nikisch. Sinding's works are being played with increasing frequency in New York. The well-known numismatist, Mr. J. de Lagerberg, of New York, on his seventieth birthday recently, received a medal designed especially in his honor and presented by friends in Sweden, who wished to show their appreciation of what Mr. de Lagerberg has done to make Swedish medals and coins known to American numismatists. The final triumph of the Icelandic sagas will be attained when they will be seen in "movies" next year. A film company is sending an expedition to Iceland to take pictures of Icelandic scenery and types for that purpose. The first to be thrown on the screen will be the general favorite, Njaal's Saga. Through the efforts of Miss Therese C. Holm, secretary of the Local Chapter, New York Associates of the Foundation were given the privilege, on October 10, of listening to a young Swedish tenor, Harold Lindau, who in the opinion of musical experts has a voice that will insure him a place among the very brightest operatic stars of New York. Mr. Lindau sang for invited guests at one of the regular free con certs at Hunter College, arranged with the particular purpose of allowing Scandinavians to hear him. After the concert, Dr. J. Hoving propounded a plan by which music lovers would be given an opportunity to aid the young man in securing the musical training of which he is still in need. Many distinguished Scandinavian scholars and men of letters were present at the dedication of the new University in Abo, October 11. Formerly the old Academy there was the one seat of learning in Finland, and it was only after a fire had devastated Åbo that the new University at Helsingfors was established ninety years ago. The Fennoman movement has resulted in making the University more and more purely Finnish, and the need has been felt for some time of another institution of learning that should be a bulwark of Swedish culture in Finland. With this in view, the new University of Åbo has been founded. Consul Johannes E. Böggild has been made Minister Resident in Iceland, an office created since the new governmental relation between Denmark and Iceland went into effect. The new minister is well known here, as he held the office of consul in San Francisco and Chicago and for a short time in New York, besides being connected with the Danish Legation in Washington during the negotiations that led to the freeing of American exports to Denmark. The importance which the Danish Government attaches to the Iceland post is shown by the appointment of a man so distinguished in the foreign service as Consul Böggild. Mr. C. H. A. Bjerregaard recently completed forty years of service in the New York Public Library. On October 22 he was presented with a remembrance of his services by his associates on the staff, and in the afternoon he was a guest of the Library School. Mr. Bjerregaard, who is a Dane by birth, is a scholar and an author on subjects connected with Theosophy. 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With large stocks of German goods and German capital located in the province when it is taken over, German business sees prospects of finding a fruitful market there for its goods, and looking beyond sees the territory as a door through which it may expect further foreign business. NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION A SUCCESS The Norwegian-American exhibition, which was held at Tivoli in Christiania, beginning September 10, found 450 American articles of export on exhibition, with an equally good showing of Norwegian commodities. So great was the interest shown that it was necessary to divide it into three groups, the first a general exhibition of commodities including finished products and American export articles. The second was an automobile exhibition embracing automobiles de luxe, motorcycles, tires, accessories, and similar articles, and the third group consisted of machinery and motors. Active support was given by American Minister Schmedeman and Consul General Letcher and the Department of Commerce here. Both the Norwegian America line and the Scandinavian-American line reduced freight rates on goods destined for the exhibition. The affair was arranged by the Norges Handels og Sjöfartstidende, and the official committee in charge was representative of the NorwegianAmerican commercial world. IRON INDUSTRY DEPRESSED The Swedish iron industry during the first and second quarters of 1919 operated under very depressing conditions. Some of the most important reasons for this are disinclination to buy on account of the uncertain industrial conditions, valuta difficulties, overproduction in the large countries, and finally the government sales on the English market of stocks belonging to the state which have accumulated during the war. The export of pig iron during the second quarter of 1919 was only 23,100 tons against 54,900 tons during the same period of last year, and the aggregate iron exports amounted to respectively 57,900 tons and 109,400 tons. At the same time the export of iron ore decreased to 635,000 tons which means a decrease of about fifty per cent. INDUSTRIAL CONCENTRATION CONTINUES In line with the general efforts for concentration which have lately been made in all branches of industry in Sweden, a fusion of two large companies in the Swedish electrical industry has recently taken place. The firm Svensk Elektrisk Material, manufacturers of the Sem heaters, has combined with the Elektriska Industri in Stockholm. Elektriska Industri manufactures radio telephones and telegraph apparatus and will thus now also take up the manufacture of Sem heaters. The company will increase its capital stock from 500,000 kronor to 750,000 kronor for the purpose of financing the building of a factory in Hagalund. 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