Removal of Family to Stockholm 6i The preparation for the study of Art, which Ellen had received in childhood by association with art reproductions, had made her feel pos- itive of the importance of modem endeavours in this direction, but she thinks that the child- ren should be allowed freely to absorb art, that it should be a subject for teaching only in so far as the child is given answers to his own questions. Italy made the deepest impression on her. For this country, she had yearned ever since she had read, at ten years of age, Nikander's^ Rung Enzio och Hesperiderna (King Enzio and the Hesperides). On account of a tendency to lung trouble, she spent the summer of 1876 in Norway, where she learned to love the people, as well as the scenery, diu*ing a month's stay in the vicin- ity of Aulestad and pedestrian tours through Jotunheimen, Sogn, and Hardanger. In 1879, she made a foiirth journey abroad, this time at the invitation of friends to accom- pany them to Holland, London, and Paris. On this trip she had the opportunity of visiting her childhood friend, Lisa in her happy home in Rouen, where her husband held a position. ' Swedish poet.—Translator's footnote.