Work 69 she was reading to us from Geijer's prose works, we were not attentive, she was beside herself. She wanted us to be sober and sensi- ble, to discard superficiality, to learn to con- centrate our thoughts on one subject at a time. ..." It would probably have been wiser to adopt the school tone with its stricter discipline, but Ellen Key could understand as little then as now the necessity for school grinding, warmly interested as she herself always was, and consequently some thoughtless and childish pupils wantonly rejected the precious pearls offered. Moreover, she liked to see the healthy playfulness of the young assert itself, for she was, and is, a child among children. And it is doubtful that the pearls could have become their own valued treasirres had they been forced upon them instead of being re- ceived by grateful hearts. During recess, she was generally surrounded by the younger pupils who crowded upon her screaming: "Tante Ellen, Tante Ellen!" until she was quite helpless and had to defend herself with both hands. The "Tante" title was thrust upon her by the school custom. Outside of the school she has always been simply Ellen Key to all children.