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 — 
Oficers: 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, M. I. T. C. Clan, President; N. L. Freilberg, Secretary, Stjerneborg Allee 8; 
Norway— Norge-Amerika Fondet, L. Strandgade 1, Christiania, K. J. Hougen, Chairman. 
Another Yule Number takes our Christmas 
greetings to our friends; but other than our 
own familiars will read this Yule Number of 
the Review. We wish these new acquaint¬ 
ances a Merry Christmas. For their benefit, 
by way of introduction, and it may be also 
for the pleasure of our old friends, we will 
borrow this page to tell again what the Foun¬ 
dation is doing and how it endeavors from 
Christmas to Christmas to bring about good 
will and understanding between America and 
the Scandinavian North. 
The Foundation is now eleven years old. 
Among American international societies, this 
is a ripe age. We began in 1911 with an en¬ 
dowment established by Niels Poulsen. 
Under the direction of a Board of seventeen 
Trustees we have used the income from this 
fund and private donations to execute a pro¬ 
gram of education and public service. The 
Kings of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden 
have given the Foundation their patronage; 
the Scandinavian governments have appointed 
advisory committees; and popular co-operat¬ 
ing bodies have been established in the Scan¬ 
dinavian capitals. 
In eleven years the Foundation has given 
substantial aid to more than two hundred and 
fifty students; it has made of its official organ, 
the Review, a respected periodical which, be¬ 
tween 1912 and 1922, has filled ten good vol¬ 
umes; the Foundation has published twenty- 
five books and has led other American pub¬ 
lishers to the field of Scandinavian literature. 
We can not list here the art exhibitions, the 
lecture tours, the bibliographies, the recitals, 
and concerts through which the Foundation 
and its Chapters in American cities have 
brought Scandinavian contributions to Ameri¬ 
can life. 
No reader of this Yule Number for 1922 
needs to be told of the function and merits 
oi the American-Scandinavian Review. 
The lean, friendly figure of Hans Christian 
Andersen on the cover is in itself a promise 
of a good evening of reading by the fireside; 
the Carl Larsson frontispiece is in a holiday 
humor; the towers of Norway’s Cathedral re¬ 
mind us of the sacred antiquity of the season. 
Not all the year’s twelve Numbers of the 
Review are done in this idyllic mood. There 
are special numbers and substantial articles 
by experts for the educator, the artist, the 
traveller, the bookman, the shipper, and the 
man of affairs. The Review is designed for 
the American who for sentimental or practical 
reasons feels an interest in our relations with 
Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It provides 
the lungs of the Foundation. On a page like 
this in each number of the Review are re¬ 
corded the current undertakings of the Foun¬ 
dation; here the Fellowships for foreign study 
are offered annually to students, and here the 
awards are announced; here the coming of 
an interesting visitor is described; here new 
publications are listed and the programmes 
of local Chapters have their chronicle. Each 
Associate of the Foundation receives the Re¬ 
view, and upon payment of the annual sub¬ 
scription fee of three dollars any interested 
person may become an Associate. 
Associates of the Foundation are of several 
kinds. There is first the regular Associate 
who is simply a subscriber to the Review. 
Then there is the Sustaining Associate who 
receives the Review and also the Scandi¬ 
navian Classics of the year. The Life As¬ 
sociate, by one payment, becomes a subscriber 
to the Review and the Classics for his life¬ 
time. Twenty Scandinavian Classics have 
been published, each complete in itself though 
uniform with the others in binding. They 
