CONTRIBUTORS TO THE JUNE NUMBER 
Louis Bobe is known especially for his researches into the genealogy and history 
of the Norwegian-Danish nobility. He has written numerous books of an historical- 
biographical character, and has edited various memoirs and letters of distinguished 
men and women of Denmark. In 1912 and 1915 Dr. Bobe traveled in Greenland 
and after his return published Gronlandshe Relationer. His article “Greenland_ 
a Tmo Hundredth Anniversary appeared in the October number of the Review. 
Bishop Tandberg, whose death occurred last March, wrote some months ago the 
article which appears in this number in response to the request of the Editor that he 
would send a message through the Review to American friends of Norway. Jens 
Tandberg was born in 1852, the son of Bishop Jorgen Tandberg, and entered the 
service of the Church in 1876. From 1913 to his death he was bishop of Christiania, 
the highest ecclesiastical office in Norway. He was a man of varied interests and was 
active in municipal affairs and in movements for the moral regeneration of the city. 
In the strife between the modern and conservative tendencies in the Church his atti¬ 
tude was one of mediation between the two contending parties. 
Adolph Burnett Benson, of Yale University, is a regular contributor to the 
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John G. Holme, whose article on Vilhjalmur Stefansson will be remembered by 
our readers, has recently accepted a position with the bureau of American-Swedish 
News Exchange in New York headed by Dr. Brilioth. 
Hjalmar Soderberg is known chiefly as a novelist and dramatist. His play 
Gertrud , in which he satirizes certain phases of married life and shows the follies of 
infidelity, has had a brilliant stage success. He has also been active as a critical writer 
and has interpreted among others Anatole France to the Swedes. A few years ago 
Soderberg surprised his readers with his book Jehovah’s Fire , an historical-critical 
study of the events recorded in Exodus. 
Margaret Sperry, a young American writer, has become interested in Scandi¬ 
navian things through the influence of a Swedish mother as well as through impres¬ 
sions from her childhood spent on a Norwegian farm. She is a graduate of the Uni¬ 
versity of Wisconsin. 
