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started the Home Mission, but had, worst of all, taken 

 captive the ' Swedish Nightingale.' " 



The following account of Jenny Lind is from the 

 pen of Hans Christian Anderson, one of the most 

 distinguished literary men of Sweden, and of whom 

 an interesting sketch has been written by Mary 

 Howitt : — 



" One day in my hotel at Copenhagen, in the year 

 1840, I saw the name of Jenny Lind among those of 

 the Swedish strangers. That same year I had been 

 in the neighboring country, and had been received 

 with much honor and kindness. It would not, there- 

 fore, be an unbecoming thing on my part, were I to 

 visit the young artist. At this time she was almost 

 entirely unknown out of Sweden ; even in Copen- 

 hagen her name was known to but few. She received 

 me with great courtesy, but distantly and coldly. 

 She was, as she said, on a journey with her father to 

 South Sweden, and was merely come over to Copen- 

 hagen to see the city. We shortly after separated, 

 and I had the impression left upon me of a very ordi- 

 nary character. It soon, however, passed away, and 

 I had forgotten Jenny Lind. In the Autumn of 

 1843, Jenny Lind again came to Copenhagen. 

 Boumonville, the ballet master, one of my friends, 



