A Fascinating Account of Life fand Work in King Gustaf's Realm While the great Powers are cuitivating chaos Sweden continues to maintain the even tenour of her la ternal quietness and material progress, In spite of the Great War and the peace wranglings, she 1 fused to exercise any influence over European politics, as she has consistently done since the days of the Napoleonic wars.
Few people realize' what enormous advances have been made by Sweden's citizens in their econo: nic and cultural life during the past decade. Those who seck to find a way out of the present industrial and social difficulties might gain much by a close study of her internal affairs. The latest issue of an official publication of the Swedish Government in English, on "Sweden," contains much new information about the country, its people, history, and_ present social structure, which will appeal to all who are interested in the progress of humanity. The work, which has just been handed to us by Baron Akerhielm, the Swedish Consul-General, is modestly described as a. "handbook." It runs into two volumes of encyclopedic dimensions. and volume two, -levoted to a review of trade and commerce, deserves the closest tention of the business man.
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