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THE AM ERIC AN-SCAN DIN AVIAN REVIEW 
“At the Edge of Lake Malaren Looms Another Structure which Belongs to Stockholm 
in a Peculiar Sense, Its Town Hall 
has been immortalized and endeared to all Swedish hearts through the 
songs of the poet Bellman, who in the eighteenth century sang of the 
charms of Djurgarden. That Stockholm also like all other big cities 
has hospitals and schools, which are a matter of especial pride, a 
Stadion of an unusually monumental character, theatres—rather too 
many of the latter, for ten theatres, not counting, of course, the scores 
of moving picture houses, is really too many so long as our city has 
not reached half a million population—is a matter of course. As for 
our theatres, they are perhaps not of so much interest to visitors who 
do not understand our language as they are to ourselves. 
A remarkably dignified Court-house with something of the austere 
beauty of Justice in its aspect lies on an island called Ivungsholmen, 
