74 Ellen Key- scales. Her delivery is ever marked by plastic moderation. Earnest research, earnestly ren- dered, fills full the measure within the limits of the lectures. One soon finds that it is her deep, human interest which has brought her to study history. This interest is correlated with her finely expressed indignation against all kinds of injustice and oppression." What Ellen Key has meant to her audiences was best made evident when she resigned her chair in the People's Institute. She made her farewell in a touching last address which ended with the following words: "Not great learning and many-sided knowledge have I been able to give you. I aimed at something else. My endeavour has been, through litera- ture, to teach you of life, to help you to live more richly, and to listen better to the voices of life in song and story." The audience was strangely moved by what she said, and also by the strong emotion which drove the blood from her face as she stood, framed by flowers, with downward gaze and subdued voice, solemnly and tenderly bidding her loved people farewell. A labourer now came forward and with a few appropriate words unveiled a portrait of Ellen Key, done in pastel by the artist Hanna Pauli,