Excerpt from Again in Sweden: Sketches and Reminiscenes From the Land of Our Forefathers During the Year of the Great Exposition and the King's Jubilee, 1897 Did you ever walk in pleasant paths, selecting from along the wayside many pretty flowers, appealing to your taste and fancy, to be treasured as a remembrance of your day of visit and rest? Did you ever ask, as you looked upon a beautiful, in spiring landscape beneath your feet: to whom does it belong and who lives there? If you did, you understand fully the origin and aim of the following pages. I would give you, with your permission, a hand-full of For get-me-nots and Northern Linneas from that land of song and romance, where my fathers once lived and where I have wandered about so recently; and as you look out over the lovely valleys and rugged mountains, the placid lakes and roaring rivers of that country, where the Sagas found their lovely subjects and the run - stones arose to bear eloquent testimony to the glorious past, I would try to tell you something about the people living there now, about their illustrious King, and about them selves, the happy and contented citizens of the freest monarchy that history has ever recorded. That is all. It must be done in a hurry, or the flowers might wither. It must be done briefly, or you might tire of it in our busy, American age of incessant toil and excitement. Give me, then, your kind permission, and we will hasten on to the task itself, so charming to the one whose good fortune it is now to greet you with a sincere welcome to a few moments in Sweden and of Sweden. Bethany College, the day of the King's Jubilee, Sept. 18, 1897. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.