120 TEN YEARS IN SWEDEN. 



The lads are excellently educated in the living and dead 

 languages, history, etc. Botany and natural history are very 

 much taught here, and I have thought when I have seen a 

 party of these lads coming home, with their tin collecting 

 cases across their shoulders that perhaps, after all, a quiet 

 afternoon's ramble in the fields and forests around the 

 town, may not be a bad substitute for those rougher exercises 

 in which our schoolboys at home delight, for forming the 

 future character of the man. 



Examinations are held before every long vacation, and 

 the boys are turned out well grounded in all the necessary 

 elements for whatever course of life they may wish to follow. 

 Those who are intended for the higher professions go up at 

 once to one of the universities, Lund or Upsala, where a fur- 

 ther course of two or three years completes their education. 



At Carlstad the number of boys yearly educated is about 

 230, in Gothenburg, 560. 



In every country house where the family is at all large, 

 a tutor and a governess are kept ; she is considered exactly 

 as one of the family, and the rich English might learn 

 many a good lesson from the Swedes in the treatment of 

 their dependants. One trait I much like in the Swedish 

 character is, that they are not too proud to endeavour to 

 get a living by any respectable means. Most of the best- 

 bred girls receive an excellent education, and they are not 

 above (in case of being left poor at the death of their parents) 

 taking situations as governesses. 



Many of the officers also whose pay is but small, and 

 who have much leisure time upon their hands, employ it 

 in teaching, land surveying, etc., and are not thought the 

 worse of for so doing. 



However, notwithstanding all their hearty cordiality to 

 the stranger and their jovial bearing towards each other, 

 there is much pride among the Swedes ; far different from 

 democratic little Norway, where I believe there are only two 

 noblemen in the whole land, and these titles are to die out 

 with the present holders. Unfortunately, it is not the case 

 here as in England, that the estates of the nobility are 



