The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-27

ripe ~actualities of human experience
! by throwing about them the glamour OF
the unknown. and on the otner nanu
gave to the unreal-to folk tale ana ta'ry
lore and local superstition--the enec-
tiyeness OF convincing fact. Reading
| Sein, Iaserlor.' saws tine swedish COM
poser Hugo Alrvcu. - like sitting IN
! the dusk OF n Spanish cathedral .
afterward one does not know whether
what he has seen was q cream vi
reality, but certainly he has peen on
holy ground The average mind, "hetner
Swedish or Anglo-SaNoIi, soon wearies
OF heartiess preclseness In literature anu
welcomes an idealism az Wholesome as
that o. Miss Lagcilof. Furthermore the
Swedish authoress attracts her readers
by a diction unique unto l.erseIf. as sun
yular a. the English sentences Of Charies
Lamb. Her style may he described as
PROSE rhapsody held Ia restraint, at
times passionately breaking It's bonds
Although Miss Lager'of has not been
without, her snare Of lifc's re-pleNit'es
! and ri ,pn,ac. With her felloNHien. ~,
is by intuition that she works rather
than by experience. Otherwise she
could not have depicted IN her books
! such "A multiplicity o. characters from
| ali parts of Europe. she secs character
Win woman. warm and delicate sym
patty ard with the clear viyon OF child
hood"
After success had brought Miss Lager-
! loc financial Independence she returned
IA Tho Va-nIand homestead AZ Mnubackt
whe-c her girlhooi dreams had t""n
dreaned. bought the place from the ne"
ovrsrs and set about restoring y 10 the
stat. In which size had rO"n II, 't
| ,h,a r,ase 81 her career Miss 1Agerlof
| herself has written most charnnlnssy III
"Further Adventures OF Nils weaving
- az lAv ne - o.
r..r into those waudcr!rgs OF little Mis-
Size Nrote
"Now | mus, eel you ~ a strans"
c-,irc,den.o. INC verys year tAat Mis-
Uolgersson travelled with the MIL gees
,ncro was a woman via thoueht OK VIII
ing a book about S~edcu "h "'H''
h,. suitable Cor children TO read ~ '"'
schools. Sac had thought oi ms tr''"
,.hrstnas time unit, tie following aE
,umu but NOT a l!rc OF 'Ae DOCK '.'" S''
arl,.ar ss
sac WI. from Narnlaud ana = Wa
| ncrfectlv clear to her that she ".~n'A
- begin the book with thlt pFofli,''
l.ir., ~ an she would write aboH: the
Mace where she had grown up. u was
: u.tlc homestead, Car removed from IN"
prcat world. where many Old '.n'
habits and customs we're re't'ieo' S"e
,boug., that u would bc entertaining Tor
children 10 hear OF the manifold duties
vhlcn had sucso-led one another thc
ye,r around. She vented 10 tell them
how tbev celebrated Christmas and Ne"
ycar and Easter and Midsummer Day IN
her home: what Kind OF house furnlSl,
,uge they had: what the Kitchen ana
l,rl.r were Ike and loT the cowshel'
stable. lodge ana bathNouse uad looNed'
Ru, when SHE was 20 write about II we
non would not move. why th!s WAS sie
.u,l 80. ir the least understand ,
nevertheless Il was So.
| W. h5n. as one mGtnt think. for
! the estate had been sold TO p"'pIc 81"
did not know. She felt. 10 be sure tnat
they would receive her we'll my Sh" ava
not c..re 70 20 10 the old place To -
AMI Talk with strangers. Tor she Wh'1trA
, "a recall how i had been IN times gone
10y. 1ylat WAS why she planned i 50 a"
10 arrlv. there late IN the evening when
Ia. days work was done and TN" poop"
Were indoors.
"Sh. Mad u.Ner imAsinrl 'hs' = wou''
bu 50 wonderful, - oolHc 'loNc' No sH1
sat .a the cart and drove toward The old
, homestead sac fan,led TINT she was
rruw.rg younger and Younger every
uInut"
AZ last We zee the Selma IaGcrio' Of
7 to-day, honorrl "a A'g az" ai'I
generation. happily established IN h"g
I native homestead ~ N"'n",N,' Yin
= !Hnd' a n%Leln"'I OF me S"'"''i' W l'i.'
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heart 81 tna swedish people, Her ad'
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