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The Springfield Republican. one OF
Americas most classic newspapers,
makes the following comment on the
language movement in Norway: ar
tifcial languages are not so new or
| unusual thing as might be supposed.
Homeric Greek was in sense arti-
fetal, and so was classical Latin;
In modern times we have only to CON
slider the language of Dante. Such
correspondence as in English between
the vernacular and the language of
literature is perhaps the exception
rather than the rule Yet in our time
there have been few examples of this
process comparable to the Norwegian
Landsmaal, which a government com
mission is now considering for the Of
fetal language of Norway It is the
invention of one man, War Aasen,
whose centenary has recently been
celebrated, but it is based on the vo-
cabulary and grammar of the old
sagas, enriched from living Morse dia-
! lects. The result is said to be a Ian,
guage of rare beauty, O. splendid yehi-
Gle for either prose or verse, and it
has come into considerable popular
use and is given a place in the schools
the only drawback being that few
can yet speak it correctly or under
stand lit well Rather paradoxicaTly
this neoarachaic speech is being push
ed by the radicals, while the conserva-
tives cling to the language in which
Ibsen wrote, which by the reforners
| is stigmatized as Danish dialect. In
English there was craze in the mid
ole of the Nineteenth century for
pure Anglo-Saxon,' but no War Aasen
/ appeared to make a new tongue out Of
old English and modern English,
Scotch and Irish dialects, and little is
/ left for a souvenir Of the movement
except 'foreword' for preface"
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/ The Lutheran free church in Nor
way held its annual convention in
Holmestrand recently From the an
nual report it is learned that the
synod now numbers forty-six congre-
/ cations, with a total membership of
1928. There are fifty-six churches,
/ whose valuation amounts to 531,450
crowns The amount collected for
mission purposes during the last year
amounted to 27,114 crowns, and the
total receipts for ali purposes to ST.,
! 079 crowns.
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The Schroeder mission in Africa,
supported by the Church of Norway,
is apparently in a very prosperous
condition. During the past year 265
| persons were baptized, of whom 100
were adults There are now in course
OF instruction for baptism 329 persons,
and the word is preached at sixty-fOur
different stations There are thirty
one schools in which GA pupils are
! instructed
Norway's famous composer, Chris
tian Sinding, is at present in Berlin,
where in all probability he will spend
the winter, 1t will be in Berlin at
I Liz IVY al ODS1 q W11SlS d ubEaSG vi
Sindings great compositions viii be
given this winter and music critics
have been devoting a good deal OF at
tention recently to the famous Nor
wegian and his work.
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The brewery strike continues in
Kristiansand The workers are de-
termined and are succeeding in pre-
venting new men going to work They
will, according to present indications,
win q raise in wages.
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During the coming year Christiania
will spend more than two and half
million crowns on new school build
ings. There is progressiveness in ed
ucstioRal matters in Norway.
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Bjellnad, the world famous sardine
man, has purchased the United Sar-
dime factory on Sunde, in Sondhorland.