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his great influence, he became neither overbearing nor cynical, neither 
vain nor blase. Happy as a child in success and honors, he neveithe- 
less knew how to estimate them at precisely their real value. He could 
put more enthusiasm into demonstrating a theory to a young student 
_for he was a comrade to students whose fathers had gone to school 
with him—than in showing his museum to a royal guest. A brilliant 
speaker, an unusually fluent linguist, and always in good form, he was 
both at home and abroad during his long lifetime one of the most dis¬ 
tinguished as well as one of the most genuine representatives of that 
Swedish culture the sources of which he discovered and mapped out. 
The Old House in Stockholm Where Montelius’s 
Parents Were Married, Wliere He Himself Was Born, 
Lived and Died. Though Ordinary in Exterior, the 
Home Within Bears the Stamp of Fine Tradition 
