CONTRIBUTORS TO THE AUGUST NUMBER 
The Skarsfos pictured on the cover is near the tourist centre Odda in Hardanger 
and with the Laatefos forms a large double waterfall. The Seven Sisters’ Fall in the 
Geirangerfjord is one of the most picturesque among the famous Norwegian falls. 
Luth Jaeger, though born and educated in Norway, has been for fifty years a 
patriotic American. In his early days here he was identified with the Norwegian 
language press; later he was editor and publisher of The North, the first American 
Scandinavian weekly printed in English. Throughout his public life he has always 
urged Americanization as the first duty of the foreign born. Mr. Jgeger is now in 
the administrative office of the University of Minnesota. 
Marta Lindquist is a contributor to Svenska Daghladet in Stockholm and has 
been active as a translator, especially from English. 
Per Sivle, though his production is not voluminous, ranks among the great 
poets in the golden age of Norwegian literature. He evolved for himself a charac¬ 
teristic terse, scaldic verse form particularly well suited to the historical themes 
from which he drew inspiration and admonition for his own generation. Several of 
these poems have been accepted among the national songs of Norway. He is also 
the author of numerous short stories of everyday life, written in a simple but pro¬ 
foundly touching manner. Of these Helpless is one of the most popular. Per Sivle 
was born in 1857 and died in 1904. 
Henry Goddard Leach, former editor of the Review, last summer extended 
his Scandinavian trip to include Finland and penetrated deep into the wilds of 
Karelia where he met the picturesque exponent of rural banking described in this 
number. 
Frede Thomsen is a Dane, and a resident of Copenhagen. She has translated 
many stories for children from the Swedish; but her own especial work is in her 
articles on famous women of the past. y - ' 
William Pickens is a national authority on the Negro question. He has written 
among other things Abraham Lincoln, Man and Statesman; The Heir of Slaves; 
Frederick Douglass and the Spirit of Freedom; Fifty Years of Emancipation, and 
The Ultimate Effect of Segregation. 
