Removal of Family to Stockholm 57 young to accept so responsible a position, especially as she had not yet reached any clear view as to the religious problems which filled her mind. But her dream and endeavour, from this time on, was to found a Folk-highschool for girls in her own home county, and for years she studied and laboured in prepara- tion for this. She associated closely with the peasants trying to get a true understanding of their view of life, their customs, and habits. She collected sagas, folk-tales, and proverbs, embracing the opportunity at the same time to collect old-fashioned articles of peasant make for Arthur Hazelius,' whose new move- ment for a National Folk Museum deeply interested her. Ellen's visit to the Folk-highschools in Denmark was made as the result of the above-mentioned offer, and also because the great importance of such institutions had been impressed upon her, as upon other Swedes, by Bjomstjeme Bjomson in his lec- tures in Stockholm, in December, 1872, and January, 1873; on Gmndtvig, Vergeland, the Sistine Chapel, etc. Ellen had attended every lecture and afterwards written them I Founder of Skansen, the out-door Museum and National Park at Stockholm.—Translator's footnote.