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ArcheoIogist-lnteresting Comment
in American Newspaper on the Ian
guage Movement in Norway-Re-
nowned Japanese Scientist Now
Visiting Scandinavian Countries.
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Says The Review of Reviews. There
are many who maintain that The title
of the worlds foremost archeologist
should be given to the noted Swedish
savant, Professor Oscar Montelius,
who Iectured at Columbia university
couple of years ago and whose seven
tieth birthday anniversary is the cause
of a sympathetic article in Ord och
Bid" (Stockholm) UnNl recently he
was the royal antiquarian Of Sweden,
| but has retired from that position with
La pension. He has had many flatter-
| ing offers from foreign countries-the
most notable of these coming from
! Berlin, where they wanted him as
! head of the big archaeological museum
and professor at the university
| he insisted on remaining faithful to
| his country and to the Historical Mu-
scum of Stockholm, which under his
care has become one Of the finest in
situations Of it's kind in the world The
principal work of Professor Nontelius
| has been connected with the deter
mination Of prehistoric chronology and
in this field he has probably done more
than any other man of his time. His
methods and conclusions were at first
| considered Teyolutionary-so revolu-
tionary that, at some scientific con-
gress in the seventies, hot tempered
German scientist denounced them as
50 shame to modern science" Now
they are rapidly becoming accepted all
over the world, and many museums
have rearranged their collections so
as to illustrate the evolutionary pro-
cesses traced and mapped by Profess
sor MonteIius. His first task was to
determine the exact age of the many
prehistoric objects found in his own
country. He proceeded TO do so by
means of the systematic study Of GER
tain objects, principally axes, swords
and buckles. But soon he found that
to get the data needed he must so out
side of Sweden and so he chose Italy
as the country offering the richest
store of Illuminating finds to be had.
From there he was led to Greece and
Egypt and after years of splendid Ia
bors, in which he was faithfully helped
by his wife, Professor Montelius
found on his hand as a sort of by
product enough material to publish
great work on 'The PrecIassicaI
Chronology of Italy," which promises
to become as epoch making as was his.
earlier works on prehistoric Sweden.
One of his triumphs was the series of
analytical Investigations by which he
succeeded in proving that the prehis-
toric finds in Italy must almost with
out exception be referred to period
lying between the years 1400 and $50
B. c. The latter date was established
through certain vase figures borrowed
from Greece and also found at Athens
under circumstances proving that they
had been put in the ground at the
burning of the temples by the Per
SLAMS in 40 B. C.
The American Scandinavian Review
announces a Christmas issue of I'M
usual interest Two masterpieces of
Yoodorv GrodicIo ora ssLy5nosc KorSy1,s
by Anders zorn, and The Hunter .
by Bruno Lifenfors, will be reproduced
in colors for the first time in America
A series of illustrations eff Danish cas-
ties picturesque royal residences or
crumpling "herregardeE'' sacred to the
memory of the past-wiIl open most
auspiciously with full page picture
of Rosenberg and poem written
to accompany the illustration by Min
lister Maurice Egan. Director War
Knudsen will contribute remarkable
article on fSmokeless Marine" deal
ing with the development and posi-.
bilities of the Diesel motors, which
are now revolutionizing the worlds
shipbuilding. Sweden's greatest au-
thoress, Selma Lagerlof, has written a
story to appear simultaneously in
Sweden and America, a tale having
its roots in real life and written in
Miss Lagerlof's best vein. A humor-
Gus Danish-American Christmas story
by Countess Raben-Leventzau the
triumphant tour through Norway of
the singers from st. Olaf's college in
Minnesota, and copiously illustrated
account of recent happenings in the
land Of Laps and iron mines above the
polar circle, by Henry Leach, are
among the other features announced.
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The New York Institute of Science
was the name used by some unscrupu-
lous persons who advertised far and
wide some time ago. They succeed
ed in feecing some people in Sweden,
who reported the matter to the Swed-
ish consulate at New York. AS a re-
suit of an investigation started by