Removal of Family to Stockholm 59 vigianism. It seemed to her to illustrate the untenability of any compromise between Christianity and absolute Liberalism. The following year in Stockholm, she met Magdalen Thoresen.' A friendship which lasted for life sprang up between them, and Ellen Key often went to Copenhagen to visit Magdalen, who retained her attractiveness and beauty of spirit even in her old age. Between thirty and forty, Ellen made other journeys important to her development. She attended the World's Fair in Vienna in 1873 with her father, who went abroad for the pur- pose of studying Reform Schools and Children's Asylums in the interest of Norregard, Kalmar, an institution of similar kind, of which he was executor after his father-in-law, Count Posse. During these visits Ellen Key conceived a hatred for all kinds of institutions for children. In Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Venice, Florence, Paris, London, and Cassel the glories of art met Ellen's eyes. Her mind was well pre- pared by her own readings, as well as by the series of art lectures she had attended in prosecuted in Copenhagen because of his boldly expressed opinions on theological subjects.—Translator's footnote. ' Danish- Norwegian author and stepmother to Ibsen's wife. Translator's footnote.