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me good novels have been written in 

 Jl. The Young" Swedish sehool has fairly 

 the nccc-Miy of tho case, and has passed 

 1 of short sketches mid contri- 

 u'tii.ns to Christinas annuals. August Strind- 

 i-resentative, is the nio.>t pruini- 

 etit figure in Swedish prose fiction, a man of 

 irti>tu! and literary gifts, possessed of a 

 -ons style, firmness of touch, and quite 

 fond of diatribes against tho gentler sex. 

 t lxx>k, " 1 Hafsbandet," "On the Island 

 haraderistiu of the man. He has 

 .iding Nietsche, a German prophet, and 

 iuces in fiction his teacher's theory about 

 sii|K'rhiiman being and its working. From the 

 it given in reviews, the book is hardly to 



J nounced either pleasing or profitable to 

 nmry readers. The younger men have 

 lited" l>y watching Strindberg s style without 

 adopting his peculiar views as to life and con- 

 luct. Tor Iledberg's "Ett Eldprof," "A Test 

 f Fire," is noted as a psychological study also, 

 inning on the conflict ^between light and' dark- 

 love and growing insanity in a young man 

 letters, pursued, as he thinks, by an implacable 

 iemy. The story, on the whole, is painful and 

 Drbid in treatment, yet touching as a picture 

 the influences that are crippling intellectual 

 fe in Sweden. Another of the young masters 

 f style is Axel Lundegard, who is much praised 

 ar conciseness and clearness, conjoined with 

 imirable lightness of touch. His last book is 

 ititled " La Mouche : the Story of a Death- 

 d," in which he tells with deep tenderness the 

 ary of the poet Heine's last days in Paris, 

 ivery student of Heine recognizes who "La 

 louche " was. Great sensation has been roused 

 some chapters of an unfinished story, " GOsta 

 erlings Saga," by Selma Lagerlof, describing 

 a highly imaginative way the wild, quaint 

 fe in Vermland some sixty years back. Of 

 lorter stories, the best one is decidedly yet pow- 

 fully naturalistic, by Gustaf af Geijerstam, 

 ititled " Fadermord," the tale of a murder of 

 peasant of Oland by his wife and sons. Tho 

 lalysis and description throughout display in- 

 ght and force. Worthy cf note is a good 

 1 Aftermath " of Victoria Benedictson's shorter 

 adies. Mrs. H. Nyblom has published a col- 

 etion of studies and essays, some of them 

 'cidedly charming, called " Dikt och Ver- 

 lighet,'' "Fiction and Fact." The literary 

 access of the year (from a financial point of 

 iew) has been won by Sigurd's " Fru Westberg's 

 Inackorderingar," a collection of broadly hu- 

 lorous sketches of lower middle life. "Sigurd" 

 a pen-name. In other departments a few 

 books have been published, which we here note. 

 Viktor Rydberg has written an "Epilogue " for 

 the Swedish translation of S. Laing's " Modern 

 Science and Modern Thought." It is said to be 

 an able plea for a rather novel kind of religious 

 idealism, without antagonizing new discoveries 

 in science. Karl af Geijerstara has somewhat 

 to say on " Hypnotism och Religion," and D. 

 RergstrOm deals" with "Kommunism och Social- 

 ism." August Strindberg has published a col- 

 lection of mixed essays called "Trvckt och 

 Otryckt." A. Hcdin, in his "Episode of the 

 Necklace," has furnished a clever study in tho. 

 history of tho French Revolution, and K. V. 



Baath, in his "Northern Life in tho Olden 

 Times," has produced a valuable as well an in- 

 mg essay. No plays of tho year have I,. . n 

 specially noteworthy. Fmns Becuwrf'f " Ilurda 

 Sinnen ' ha* created some sensation, as dealing 

 with reali>tic representation of rustic life, and 

 K. M ichaelsson's " Moln " is mate up to tho repu- 

 tation heretofore acquired by the author. In 

 poetry we may note 0. D. af Win-en's Vinter- 

 grOnt" and I). FallstrOm's "Chrysanteninin." 

 New poets of promise are Gustaf Fn. ding and 

 Per Hallstrom, the latter a sort of Swedish 

 Browning. 



LOUISIANA, a Southern State, admitted to 

 tho Union April 80, 1812 ; area, 48,720 square 

 miles. The population, according to each de- 

 cennial census since admission, was 152,9:2:; in 

 1820; 215,739 in 1880; 352,411 in 1840; 517,720 

 in 1850; 708,002 in 1860; 726,915 in 1870; 939,- 

 946 in 1880; and 1,118,587 in 1890. Capital, 

 Baton Rouge. 



(jcoverniuent. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Francis T. 

 Nicholls, Democrat ; Lieutenant-Governor, James 

 Jeffries ; Secretary of State, Leonard F. Mason ; 

 Treasurer, William H. Pipes; Auditor, Ollie B. 

 Steele ; Superintendent of Public Education, 

 William H.Jack; Attorney-General, Walter H. 

 Rogers ; Commissioner of Agriculture, Thomp- 

 son J. Bird ; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Edward Bermudez ; Associate Justices, Samuel 

 D. McEnery, Charles E. Fenner, Lynn B. Wat- 

 kins, and James A. Breaux. 



Population by Races. The following table 

 shows the white and colored population of the 

 State in 1880 and 1890, as reported by the Fed- 

 eral census: 



