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THE AMERICAN-SCANDINA VIAN REVIEW 
organization which calls itself “an informal 
fellowship of individuals and organizations 
interested in the world aspect of agriculture 
and country life.” With the experiences of 
the World War as a starting-point, the 
Society aims to promote co-operation and con¬ 
servation in the world’s natural resources as 
one of the necessary steps toward world peace. 
In recognition of the progress Denmark has 
made toward the solution of these special 
problems, the summer issue of the magazine 
w T as a Denmark Number. A leading feature 
of the number was an article on the reclama¬ 
tion of the heath entitled “How Denmark 
Turned More than 2,500 Square Miles of 
Useless Land into Forests and Fields” by 
Roger Nielsen, special attache to the Danish 
Legation in Washington. Dr. S. Sorensen, 
agricultural advisor to the Danish govern¬ 
ment, contributed an article on “Danish Agri¬ 
culture and Its Co-operative System.” 
Bjornson in Germany 
Beyond Human Power, Part I, has been 
played in Munich under the direction of the 
author’s Son, Bjorn Bjornson. One of our 
friends who was present says that the audience 
showed intense appreciation—but not ex¬ 
pressed in applause; an attempt at the usual 
irreverent clapping was hissed down. 
The Einar Jonsson Gallery Dedicated 
The Review has several times mentioned 
the projected gallery for the works of the 
sculptor Einar Jonsson which has been built 
in Reykjavik for this talented son of Iceland. 
The gallery has now been completed and was 
dedicated in the presence of the members of 
the Alting and other representative citizens. 
It is Iceland’s first art museum, and it is 
raised to house the works of a single man. It 
is unique in that it is a tribute of a whole 
community to an artist who has risen in their 
midst, has won fame in the great world, and 
has returned to work among his countrymen. 
All the sculptor’s works which have been scat¬ 
tered around in Europe and America will now 
be collected there. To the present and the 
future generations of Iceland the collection 
will stand as the great artistic interpretation 
of the land of snow and fire. 
Jens Flaaten 
Jens Flaaten of Duluth, whose death on 
August 5 by an automobile accident came as 
a shock to his friends everywhere, has for 
thirty years been closely identified with the 
cause of Northern music. He was born in 
Christianssand, Norway, fifty-three years ago 
and came to this country as a very young man. 
For thirty years he has been a resident of 
Duluth, where he was orchestra leader in the 
Lyceum theatre. In addition to this work, 
he has been active in promoting Norwegian 
male chorus singing, as leader of the local 
chorus and for many years as leader of the 
national organization of male choruses. He 
was also leader of the Swedish singing society 
Orpheus. His death in the prime of life is 
a great loss to the cause to which he had de¬ 
voted his energies. 
A Valuable Work on Denmark’s Eco¬ 
nomics 
Economic Development in Denmark Be¬ 
fore and During the World War by Harald 
Westergaard, professor of political science in 
the University of Copenhagen, has been 
printed for the Carnegie Endowment for In¬ 
ternational Peace in England by the Oxford 
University Press (1922). In a book of about 
200 pages the distinguished Danish economist 
has given us a well balanced history of those 
sane economic experiments in co-operation 
and social insurance which have won for little 
Denmark the admiration of larger nations. 
What is more, he has brought them down if 
not to date at least to 1918; He doubts the 
wisdom of the “war doles” which the govern¬ 
ment has thought itself obliged to make to 
unemployed labor and regrets this break in 
the continuity of Danish social evolution with 
its premium on individual initiative. 
Hallstrom Chairman of the Nobel Com¬ 
mittee 
The author Per Hallstrom, whose Selected 
Short Stories is published this year in the 
Classics series of the Foundation, has this 
year been elected chairman of the Nobel Com¬ 
mittee of the Swedish Academ}^, which has to 
do with the award of the prize for literature. 
Hallstrom has since 1913 been a member of 
the Nobel Committee of the great Eighteen 
and has served as the committee’s expert on 
English and German literature. Other mem¬ 
bers of the committee serve as expert advisors 
on French, Italian and Spanish, and Slavic 
literature. 
