54 Ellen Key his daughter, who became his private secretary, sometimes writing original articles for Dagens Nyheter {The Daily News). As those of her father's dictation were also in her handwriting, the editor took for granted that all were the work of Emil Key. Style and contents seemed equally good in all. This proves how thor- oughly familiar Ellen had made herself with the questions at issue, otherwise she could not have shown such practical knowledge of affairs and insight into existing political conditions. During those early years in Stockholm, when Ellen Key lived there with her parents, they had an apartment in the Bondeska Palatset at Rosenbad. When this old relic of the aristocratic grandeur of Sweden was torn down recently, the following appeared in one of the papers of the capital: "This house also was inhabited, during the Riksdag sessions, by the old veteran of the House of Knights, Adam Christian Raab, father of Hugo Raab, first chief of the General Staff, and step-father of Emil Key, Liberal Speaker in the Riksdag. He himself was a liberal- minded man, and the standard-bearers of the new times often gathered in his home for lively debates and hot discussions of the questions of the day. Those were times