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PREFACE
At the request of the late Professor Jules Mauritz-
son, Head of the Department of Swedish in Augusta-
na College, this publication was undertaken by the
Augustana Book Concern. The publishers secured from
the author, Doctor Carl Grimberg, of Djursholm, Swe-
den, permission to publish an English edition of his
work, "Sveriges Historia," and also engaged the pres-
ent writer to render the same into English.
The present volume is not a translation of any par-
ticular edition of the author’s work, but of selections
from different editions. Nor is it only a translation, it
is also an adaptation to the American student and
reader. Hence, a few omissions have been made of
matters important, more especially, to students in Swe-
den, and conversely, a few additions have been made
of matters which are of special interest to students
and readers in America. The latter point applies es-
pecially to the last section of the book, the account of
New Sweden and the mission among the Swedes on the
Delaware, which is wholly original matter. Genealogi-
cal tables of ruling families, a brief bibliography, and
a series of maps have also been added.
The work is designed for use as a textbook in high
schools and colleges where courses in Swedish history
are given, and also as a general reader for those who
are interested in the history of the Scandinavian North.
In the division of the work into chapters and sec-
tions, a common practice in the make-up of American
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