VOLUME VI JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1918 NUMBER 1 Published Bi-Monthly by THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION, 25 West 45th Street, New York Yearly Subscription, $1.50. (One dollar to Associates of the Foundation.) Single Copies, 25 cents THE MISSION OF THE SMALL STATES. By Fridtjof Nansen A NEW YEAR'S CAROL. Poem. By J. C. Lindberg 36 THE NEW SWEDISH CABINET. By E. Björkman CURRENT EVENTS: Denmark, Sweden, Norway ESTABLISHED 1746 ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN and DANISH ARTS, Inc. 563 FIFTH AVENUE, Near 46th St., NEW YORK R OYAL COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN is the most beautiful art Pottery in the world-both in design and decoration. It is the work of the great Danish artists, designers, and craftsmen, and strikes a new note in applied art. The figurines of animal life are interesting studies of nature, and are in all cases taken from original models by noted sculptors. The splendid coloring exhausts the range of the palette, and its rich charm will add immeasurably to the effect of your table or room. TEA SETS, DINNER SERVICES, Breakfast Sets, either individual or family, Centerpieces, Vases, Plaques, and Flower Holders at reasonable prices. Beautifully illustrated booklet sent on request. "Peasant Girls in Sunday Costume" Modeled by Buitox, S. C., $55.00 When answering advertisements, please mention THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN REVIEW CONTRIBUTORS TO THE YULE NUMBER FRIDTJOF NANSEN, Norwegian Minister on Special Mission to the United States, is best known in this country as an explorer. At the age of twentyseven he made his famous expedition across Greenland on skis. In the years 1893 to 1896 he established a new record to the North Pole. Retiring to the professorship of zoölogy in Christiania, he came before the world as political spokesman for Norway in 1905. After the separation, he represented Norway as the first minister to the Court of St. James's. He is at present professor of oceanography in Christiania. Among his numerous books are Farthest North and In Northern Mists. IVAR KIRKEGAARD is a Danish-American poet and editor. As an officer in the Danish army, he was stationed near the Slesvig border, where he had an opportunity of going over the old battle grounds and interviewing people who still remember the fight of 1864. K. KARSTENSEN, the Danish poet, has found a sympathetic interpreter in Miss Jane Campbell of Philadelphia. J. C. LINDBERG is connected with the State Normal School in Spearfish, South Dakota. He has translated Oehlenschläger's Hakon Jarl for the University Studies of the University of Nebraska. EDWIN BJÖRKMAN needs no introduction to readers of the REVIEW. former scholar of the Foundation and the translator of Strindberg's Master Olof in the SCANDINAVIAN CLASSICS, he has been closely associated with the work of the Foundation. Mr. Björkman has recently returned from Sweden, where he studied the political situation. AMELIA VON ENDE is a native of Poland, but came to this country at an early age. She is a musician and was for some time a teacher and head of a girls' school, in which she tried to realize some of the ideas of Ellen Key. In recent years she has been a critic and reviewer of art, music, and literature for the Nation, the Dial, and other publications, and has lectured on contemporary foreign art and literature. FANNY ALVING won the 1917 prize offered by the woman's magazine Idun in Stockholm with the charming story The Three Cottages, the first part of which appears in this issue. It will be remembered that Selma Lagerlöf's career as a writer began with the award of a prize from Idun. |