. Review of reviews and world's work . are Professor Collins sketch of Bjornson, which follows herewith, and that ofMiss Frances Willard, which Mr. Stead has -also prepared for this number, can but be impressed bythe similarity in the views and doctrines of the American woman and the Scandinavian author. Tliey areapproaching various social questions of the day in the same spirit and with the same remedial i)resciipti(; are among the most potent and forceful personalities of our times ; and there seems to us a felicitythat is more than fanciful in presenting sympathetic sketches of them
. Review of reviews and world's work . are Professor Collins sketch of Bjornson, which follows herewith, and that ofMiss Frances Willard, which Mr. Stead has -also prepared for this number, can but be impressed bythe similarity in the views and doctrines of the American woman and the Scandinavian author. Tliey areapproaching various social questions of the day in the same spirit and with the same remedial i)resciipti(; are among the most potent and forceful personalities of our times ; and there seems to us a felicitythat is more than fanciful in presenting sympathetic sketches of them in the same number of this Collin is in the near future to publish a biography of Bjornson, and he writes of his gifted country-man with intimate knowledge and strong admiration.—American Editor. BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON, the NorwegianApostle of Peace, is one of the most combat-ive of men. One would think that he must havebeen meant for a warrior : his head, his figure arethose of a chieftain. When his gray eyes flash. v^ „^< BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON. under jutting brows, and his biishy hair looks bewil-dered, as if startled by some earthquake of passionsbeneath, then, with his nether lip slightly pouting andhis broad shoulders drawn back, he makes one thinkof some old Norse Viking bent on battle and readyfor the fray. But Mother Nature seems to have made sport ofthis her gifted child. Carefully has she equipped himfor combat, and carefully has she planted liim inthe most peaceful surroundings. Bom in Norway,once the nest of sea-rovers and a nursery of civil war,but the home of a placid and cautious race—born,moreover, a parsons son, and himself marked out forthe Church—he seems to have been set apart for somecurious experiment in the rearing of new varieties ofcharacter. HIS ANCESTRY. Bjornstjerne Bjomsons father, although a quietrural parson, was something of a giant, who oncethrew the strongest man in the district out of hisstudy and down a staircase,
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