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A New Book on Christina of Denmark 
Borge Janssen, author of “The Romance of 
the Cloisters” in our Yule Number, has added 
to his long series of historical romances a novel 
entitled The Daughter of Christian II, pub¬ 
lished by Hagerup in Copenhagen. Its hero¬ 
ine is the beautiful Princess Christina of Den¬ 
mark, whom Holbein painted in the famous 
full length portrait which is one of the gems 
in the collection of the National Gallery in 
London. She was first married to Duke Fran¬ 
cis II of Milano and after his death to Duke 
Francis of Lorraine. In beauty and grace she 
is said to have rivalled Mary Queen of Scots. 
One of her many suitors was Henry VIII 
of England, and it is to her the famous 
remark is attributed that “if she had two 
heads, one might have been at the service of 
His Majesty, but as she had only one she 
preferred to keep it herself.” After the death 
of her unhappy father, she laid claim to the 
thrones of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. 
A Study of Strindberg 
Dr. Axel Johan Uppvall of the University 
of Pennsylvania, whose American edition of 
Gustaf Uddgren’s Strindberg the Man was 
recently noted in the Review, has issued a 
study of Strindberg which was presented to 
the faculty of Clark University in partial 
fulfillment of the requirements for the degree 
of Doctor of Philosophy and was accepted on 
the recommendation of G. Stanley Hall. The 
full title of the dissertation is August Strind¬ 
berg, A Psychoanalytic Study with Special 
Reference to the Oedipus Complex. It is 
printed by the Gorham Press in Boston. 
The Colonial Dames Confer Medal 
M iss M. Atherton Leach, whose articles 
on John Morton and other subjects from the 
early history of Swedes in America will be 
remembered by readers of the Review, has 
recently been awarded the Balch gold medal 
bv the Society of Colonial Dames for her 
services to American Colonial History. Miss 
Leach’s researches have been particularly in 
the field of early Swedish contributions to 
American life. She is the first woman to re¬ 
ceive the Balch medal. 
“The Cradle of Pennsylvania” 
The Cradle of Pennsylvania is the title of 
a book by Thomas Willing Balch, Vice-Presi¬ 
dent of The Historical Society of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, recently published in Philadelphia. 
Mr. Balch’s monograph is an appeal to the 
patriotic colonial societies of Pennsylvania to 
save the cradle of the state by urging the 
founding of Governor Printz Park. Mr. 
Balch rebukes Pennsylvanians for forgetting 
that the Swedes preceded William Penn and 
that the first government of Pennsylvania 
was set up a little south of Philadelphia on 
Great Tinicum Island on the shore of the 
Delaware by Johan Printz, Governor of New 
Sweden, in 1643. William Penn took pos¬ 
session in 1682. Mr. Balch has appealed to 
the governor to make this site into a Governor 
Printz Park in which the residence of the 
Swedish governor shall be reerected as far 
as possible in its original state. It is also 
suggested that the main highway between 
Philadelphia and Wilmington be christened 
Governor Printz Highway. A limited 
number of copies of his appeal, bound in 
the Swedish colors, can be obtained from the 
American-Scandinavian Foundation. All who 
are interested in this project are asked to 
write, urging the park and the highway, to the 
Governor of Pennsylvania, the Honorable 
William Cameron Sproul, Harrisburg, Pa. 
A Sprinchorn Exhibition 
Carl Sprinchorn, whose work attracted at¬ 
tention when seen at the Exhibition by Ameri¬ 
can Artists of Swedish Descent two years 
ago, has recently held an exhibition at the 
gallery of Mrs. Albert Sterner. While his 
drawings are from various parts of the world, 
ranging from Paris to California, his paint¬ 
ings in oil and water color are nearly all from 
the woodland region at Monson, Maine, where 
the artist has been living for the last three 
years in a small Swedish-American settlement, 
working sometimes as a lumberj ack, and 
painting what he saw. His favorite subjects 
are lumberjacks and horses against a sylvan 
background, but there is nothing realistic in 
his portrayal. Simplified to the elemental 
and suffused with a mystic poetic atmosphere, 
his pictures are universal rather than local. 
A Danish Woman Artist 
A collection modestly styled an Exhibition 
of Small Paintings was shown by Emily 
Monrad at the Van Boskerck Studios in 
February. It contained a number of very 
pleasing landscapes, chiefly with Danish 
motifs. Miss Monrad’s most distinguished 
work, however, is in her portraits, of which 
she presented only a few, but these painted 
with great sincerity and fidelity as well as 
with an intuitive gift for characterization. 
