SELMA LAGERLOF.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 726, 27 January 1910, Page 3

SELMA LAGERLOF.

: secbnd_':'time: (says mi .English' :.S::/mail);jaSN6liel{'prizedislvawarded;; to : a '-% ;;V woman/ .for-:-the'vfirst,';to ■:'a ■'■ ''wornan:;.'JiVTiler/.. .Ma'dame'Corie :receiyed-it : for her. sy'? services'to'. : scienco , ;'.,Mme.':Selma ; :Mgerlof: v:--{ for : are;accor'ded , ;the":most. i/.-.';. serious; and .enthusiastic homage ..all; over ..;::i.Scandin'avia,.and'also ih:Ge'rmany,'where\ :'.;':theyvhave'-been published- in translation/' ': '.S;;<:,She,{is-,-itot :kndwn : .atVall'in :England,: ; al- : ;■- '-'' :thongh','Bhe';Js'a .veryVreniarkablo .perspn- >>:.■■'}■ ality;;'and:her history.is more like fiction v'.'Jithan:.fact/:'.Born-in a province: in Swe-: •vJ''den,'.where;'very-old-legend'of the ..cqun- -.-;:■ try. is. still cherished; 1 she-was'-broughtupv i,. '. -,i by' a': grandmother,: who loved•" old. stories ;K ; yand^m4de ; the:child's : life/a thing'.full of' ■':>: ;1 and : : fairies .and -. demons. : .When: ;js:t«he;'grew liv- 1 ■'■:}.;.;' ing, forced: Tier to .be a' schoolmistress -'.'in:-. she .-consoled herself ,v .-\by 1 writing) down'..allr the "legends.'-with' - >f.:' : T?hich.;her. .childhood -Had Jljee'n 'saturated; ''': -'. : .'.'^::',THe. : anp'nymo'iis : -''friend 'who :Supplies ; thß :?;v..: motive.jpwer in': ; sb.; ; mariy ; lives, -urged' I'■■her?-,tqVjoini-'the: ; first"•:Swedish-.:literary' : ; •.- : : 'organised ' by.'.: .-'ay, Stockholm '■/i;:: one of her legends, ;; ';.V;,!ind-f;'tp:. ; herv utter ; astonishment; it :wns. :fr yunanimbusly;, crowned. '. a: Swedish. :'?:..'npblew6man ! : offered- heri'a';'-home:.'for 'a .':..' -! year,.'-,ih' :which : ,to .'.work' , peaceably ':inA ;;-;• without need for.earning money; and from' ,' ; ;; that; time: Mm'e.;'.,Eagerlof ■' has' : never .- '.vito-: : the' , of 'manners; as 'are Sir' ? ; ;:,iWaltor i ;Scott's; /they rare: Ml! of 'insight '~. srand..liuinan ,sympathy, vand:'they: 5 make ~ i-iarticulatethe peasantry :of;ller~.'country; .:;■■ ■;:."Jerushlem,"sher -/finest book, : is -a, novel V.': ,j:'relatihg' her,'experiences with.aitiny col';:;''.,:pny .otvDalecarlian peasants:"who settled" kr, '''■■ invthe: Holy. .land' to cultivate ■' the -soil ',:'' and care:for' the- sick,.and called them-;i-'if Belyes-"thpse:returried, to primitiye Chris;;v 11= -tiaiiiiy ."■"-.■''. v;: • -,'.-■"-■": ~'' "':•: '■'<.">:''-'(:■ ■'•...-.' V 3--:- One.:.pf;.the most:'intefestini; features of. :i .'.thefcase js'the : Baroness-Adresparre's ac-' ■V:.' tion;. inVpffefing-'the >p'oor.:y6ung:'school-:'..-mistress a'home'a'nd.security; f°r a year. [: .", In ancient -Greece and:.Eom'e;--'the nobles' *HthusVcared.fpr; ; the-'arts';,'in 'Japari-;to\ '~ .. day,.i iib; nobleman's'>household ' lacks its' ::-*,:poet;:the bards, of-Ireland; ,, Scotland,'and ; : v :Wales: wefe;'housed: ; by:;the..great; it-, in' ::„.-■ pleasant ito', , find^■{-.modern:' woman . reV ■V,v'..ming: this-"admirable-and'even; practical ::;:. justom/ 'For- a/man'.like. JVagner, -for -: ; . • to: be;.worried • about the milk- , ' wt'.;;bill,,-is■.;■;»'- 'crime \ at'the 'doors '-of' his ; : -. ; . : ,.'■'."..-.'.■■-' *■'■■,•'. ■:.'■:"■' ■