Work 65 ration from the home took place, and Ellen lived in the city, except for Christmas and simimer vacations. The peace and quiet of country life had to be given up for the greater part of the year, and the noise and confusion of a great city, so unattractive to her, took its place. Formerly she had only spent a part of each winter in the city. Ellen had not then heard of Ruskin and his revolt, later so well known, against cities and industry, but, in her romantic individualism she, like him, raged against Stockholm and city life in general, factories and railroads; and was not at all understood in this by her Stockholm friends. She never learned to feel at home in Stockholm, though she lived there thirty years. She never spoke of "going home" when she returned there. Her sorrow at leaving Sundsholm woke afresh every fall. She herself says that she would very likely never have done an5rthing but remain there and work for the peasants, had not the feeling of duty as well as the necessity of earning her livelihood and helping her fam.ily forced her away. Her vacations have always been spent in the country. Resorts and boarding-houses she has avoided as she would a plague. To