. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. nit. And when he wishes to celebratesome domestic festival, and like King Olaf s guests, to feast lateand long, he has to get a special police permit for enough spiritsto entertain his neighbours and drink Skaal to the Northland,skaal like his forebears, the vikings and the hoary for this law the savings bank of Suomi would tell a dif-ferent and a sorrier tale. The law-makers of Finland have also been strikingly wise inall that relates to education. It is a la
. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. nit. And when he wishes to celebratesome domestic festival, and like King Olaf s guests, to feast lateand long, he has to get a special police permit for enough spiritsto entertain his neighbours and drink Skaal to the Northland,skaal like his forebears, the vikings and the hoary for this law the savings bank of Suomi would tell a dif-ferent and a sorrier tale. The law-makers of Finland have also been strikingly wise inall that relates to education. It is a land of schools. Exceptupon the eastern frontier, where the people are still backward,everybody can read and write. The total population in 1890 was2,380,140, and so far as I can calculate, no fewer than 540,412souls were attending school. That is, out of every hundred ofthe entire population, something like twenty-three were actuallyat school. This seems an extraordinary record, taking all thingsinto consideration. There are 2,608 university students, includ-ing women; 4,723 are at the lycees; private schools educate. -FINNISH AGRICULTURE—BURNING THE WOODS FOR A SEED-BED. THE FINNS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS 83 7,785; primary schools contain 413,867; urban popularschools give instruction to 25,931; and rural popular schools to 72,991; normal schools are preparing 1,881 teachers, the sexesbeing of about equal number; and private schools receiving asubvention from the State have 7,785 children. With such afoundation, one is no longer surprised to read the long list oflearned societies which flourish here—literary, philological, ju-ridical, medical, and scientific. One of these, the Society ofFinnish Literature, is laying the world under obligations by thewealth of folk-song it has discovered and preserved. So long agoas 1889 it had a collection of 22,000 epic, lyric, and magic songs,13,000 legends, 40,000 proverbs, 10,000 enigmas, 2,000 runes,and 20,000 incantation formulas. I find
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