The American-Scandinavian Foundation 
For better intellectual relations between the American and Scandinavian peoples, by means 
of an exchange of students, publications, and a Bureau of Information — 
Officers: President, Hamilton Holt; Vice Presidents, John G. Bergquist, John A. Gade and 
C. S. Peterson; Treasurer, H. Esk. Moller; Secretary,'James Creese; Literary Secretary, 
Hanna Astrup Larsen; Counsel, Henry E. Almberg; Auditors, David Elder & Co. 
Government Advisory Committees: Danish—A. P. Weis, Chief of the Department of the 
Ministry of Education, Chairman; Norwegian —K. J. Hougen, Chief of the Department 
of Church and Education, Chairman. The Swedish Government is represented in the 
Swedish American Foundation (below). 
Co-operating Bodies: Sweden —Sverige-Amerika Stiftelsen, Malmtorgsgatan 5, Stockholm, 
Svante Arrhenius, President; E. E. Ekstrand, Secretary; Denmark —Danmarks Amerikan- 
ske Selskab, 18 Vestre Boulevard, H. P. Prior, President; N. L. Feilberg, Secretary, 
Stjerneborg, Allee 8; Norway— Norge-Amerika Fondet, L. Strandgade 1, Christiania, K J 
Hougen, Chairman. 
Publications of 1922— Scandinavian Art 
A New York business man came into the of¬ 
fice of the F oundation and picked up from a 
desk the first complete copy of Scandi¬ 
navian Art. He stayed for an hour and 
almost missed a dinner appointment. To see 
it standing on a desk is to be impressed with 
the volume’s appearance and dignity; to open 
it is to be fascinated by its abundance of il¬ 
lustrations and a text that runs along like a 
narrative of adventure. It is the most impor¬ 
tant work so far published by the Foundation. 
No book can more quickly take the mind of 
the reader to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. 
In 365 illustrations the countries of the North 
are seen through the eyes of their greatest 
artists. 
This is the fifth Monograph to be pub¬ 
lished by the American-Scandinavian Founda¬ 
tion. The contributors to the volume are Carl 
G. Laurin of Sweden, Emil Hannover of Den¬ 
mark, and Jens Thiis of Norway. The Intro¬ 
duction was written by the American critic 
Dr. Christian Brinton. The book is bound in 
blue cloth, simply lettered in gold. The j acket 
design, an oncoming Viking ship with the 
arms of the three countries emblazoned on the 
sail, is the work of Trygve Hammer. 
Our recommendation to each of our readers 
is first to buy the book for himself and then 
for his friends. 
Publications of 1922—Two Classics 
“There is a charming land 
Where grow the wide-armed beeches—” 
These two lines by Oehlenschlager are the 
first in A Booh of Danish Verse translated 
by Robert Silliman Hillyer and S. Foster 
Damon and published by the Foundation as 
a Classic for 1922. The collection begins 
with Oehlenschlager and ends with Johannes 
\. Jensen. The translators are two young 
men, poets in their own right, and Fellows of 
the Foundation to Denmark for 1920-1921. 
The Foundation takes double pride in this 
book; it is a good book, and it is fruit of the 
student exchange with Denmark. 
In the second Classic, Per Hallstrom: 
Selected Short Stories, prominence has been 
given to tales with a Swedish setting. In 
“Melchior,” “Hidden Fires,” and “The 
Water-finder,” Hallstrom’s vivid descriptions 
of nature become an integral part of the 
stories; “Symposium,” “Amor,” and “Don 
Juans Rubies” illustrate his gift of humor; 
Carneola,” the richness and restraint of his 
imagination; “The Gardener’s Wife” and 
“A Secret Idyll,” the pathos which is not 
sentimentality. The selection and transla¬ 
tion have been made by Lektor M. J. Fielden 
of Lund. Per Hallstrom is one of the great 
group of Swedish writers who came to fame 
in the nineties, a compeer of von Heidenstam, 
Jroding, Selma Lagerlof, and Oscar Levertin. 
The Charles Men in England 
“It is a commonplace that good books are 
harder to review than bad,” says a reviewer 
in the London Spectator as he begins a column 
on what he clearly considers a good book, 
The Charles Men. Heidenstam “contrives to 
give the impression that each story one reads 
is slightly better than the last ... So 
far as one unfamiliar with the original tongue 
can see, Mr. Stork’s translation is excellent; 
at any rate, it reads less like translation than 
original composition. The American-Scandi¬ 
navian Foundation are to be congratulated on 
the edition.” 
