Ancestry 9 unprejudiced champion of the questions of the day. Emil Key was one of the trusted leaders of his party, and was a permanent member of the standing Financial Committee of the Riksdag. Among other things, he introduced a bill for a new army organisation, and defended his views in print and speech with great bril- liancy. But although the Second Chamber concurred in his main contentions which, more- over, were incorporated in a Government proposal, the bill failed when it came to a vote. Defeated in this, one of his most cherished political plans, Key found the time ripe for withdrawing from public life, where he had directly and indirectly lost so much. It was a great blow for Key, who, for eigh- teen years, had fought for what he consid- ered a question of vital import to his country. Having used his money lavishly in political service, he found himself obliged to accept a position offered him as postmaster in Hel- singborg, and the family left the old home, Sundsholm. Emil Key was stately and handsome in appearance, and had the attractive and affable manners that became his high culture, and the credulous idealism of a poetic nature to