THE AMERICAN-SCANDIN AVIAN REVIEW 
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It was of great benefit to her to get some weeks’ vacation from 
the telegraph office; in the city her brother Otto was the head master 
of a Latin school, and she was naturally his very dear guest. Thor¬ 
oughly refreshed, she returned to her home. But shortly afterwards 
she was taken with a severe inflammation of the lungs and had not the 
strength to throw off the illness. She was in her convalescence and had 
apparently begun to improve, when death overtook her. Her last 
words were to the nurse, who, anticipating nothing, was about to 
leave the room: “Ah, do not leave me, it is now coming, I have wished 
for it so long.” 
She died June 17, 1872, not quite forty-two years of age; but 
her nervous impulsive temperament, and the conflicts and disappoint¬ 
ments life had afforded her had spent her body and aged her before 
her time. 
Fenger, her friend of many years, now minister of finance, had 
engraved upon her tomb-stone the following lines written by herself: 
“Det staar fast, hvad tyst jeg svor 
i Ungdomstide! 
Jeg bytter Glcedens Rosenflor 
med Sorg og Kvide — 
naar blot jeg i den gode Strid 
maa staa med JEre! 
Er Gud mig alt , kan Verdens Dom 
jeg glad undvcere ” 
The American Race Problem 
By William Pickens 
Tenth in a Series of Articles on American Tendencies 
The Race Problem in the United States of North America in¬ 
volves the relation of more than 90,000,000 of the white race with 
12,000,000 or more of the colored race. This “white” group embraces 
descendants of all branches of the Caucasian races of Europe and 
western Asia, but consists largely of Anglo-Saxons and other British, 
and Teutons and other North Europeans. The “colored” group in¬ 
cludes all the people of African or Negro descent; all who are known 
to have any Negro blood in their veins, although many of these colored 
people are perfectly white in color and in other features and char¬ 
acteristics. The American Negro is a vari-colored group filling the 
whole range from white people with a small amount of Negro blood 
in their veins, to the darkest African types. If this group as it stands 
