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COLUMBIA COLLEGE, NEW YORK,
February, 1895.


CONTENTS

PAGE
BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON, 3
ALEXANDER KIELLAND, 107
JONAS LIE, 121
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, 155
CONTEMPORARY DANISH LITERATURE, 181
GEORG BRANDES, 199
ESAIAS TEGNER, 219


BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON

I
Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson is the first Norwegian poet who can in any sense
be called national. The national genius, with its limitations as well as
its virtues, has found its living embodiment in him. Whenever he opens
his mouth it is as if the nation itself were speaking. If he writes a
little song, hardly a year elapses before its phrases have passed into
the common speech of the people; composers compete for the honor of
interpreting it in simple, Norse-sounding melodies, which gradually work
their way from the drawing-room to the kitchen, the street, and thence
out over the wide fields and highlands of Norway.


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