CONTRIBUTORS TO THE YULE NUMBER 
Harald Ostenfeld has been since 1911 bishop of Sjaelland, the most im¬ 
portant office in the Church of Denmark. Bishop Ostenfeld had planned to visit 
the United States this year to establish personal connection with American church 
bodies, in particular with the Danish Lutheran congregations, but was prevented by 
illness from carrying out his plan. It is possible that the bishop may be able to come 
next year. 
The poem Christ’s Birth by Adam Oehlenschlager (1779-1850) is the first 
in a cycle entitled The Life of Jesus Christ Symbolized in Nature, built on the theme 
that nature is a revelation of God, each season representing a phase in the life of 
the Redeemer. The group appears in a translation by Robert Hillyer in The Book 
of Danish Verse which has just been published as the nineteenth in the Scandinavian 
Classics series. 
Selma Lagerlof’s story The Eclipse, which we are fortunate enough to have 
secured for this Yule Number through the good offices of the translator, Velma 
Swanston Howard, has just been published in the collection Troll and Human 
Folk II. It was reviewed by Johan Mortensen in our November number among new 
Swedish books. 
The Danish author Hans Brix is an authority on older Danish literature and 
has written among other things II. C. Andersen, Johannes Ewald, and Blicher- 
Studies. He was co-editor of Andersen’s fairy-tales and is one of the editors of the 
new edition of Holberg to be published in honor of the centenary. He has been 
literary critic of Politiken. 
Else Hasselriis began her artistic career at the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain 
works. In her spare time she was busy with paper and shears cutting silhouettes, 
and after a while these creatures of her playful fancy were noticed by artistic judges, 
were exhibited in Berlin and Copenhagen, and made the artist instantly popular. 
Mikkjel Fonhus is one of the young writers of Norway. He has attracted 
attention even outside of his own country by the new note in his nature descriptions 
and animal stories. His last book was reviewed in the November number. 
Yngve Hedvall, our representative in Stockholm, is well known to readers of 
the Review. 
R. Tveteraas is principal of the Vaaland public school in Stavanger. He has 
been active as a lecturer and writer, his particular field being the history of the 
southwestern part of Norway in which Stavanger is the leading city. 
Sten Selander is one of the most noteworthy of the younger poets in Sweden. 
Arnst Ahlgren is the pseudonym of Victoria Benedictsson, whose popular 
novels and short stories, dealing generally with the life of the common people, 
have gone through several editions in Sweden. 
