Work 75 and presented to the Institute by members of the audience. The founder of the Institute, Dr. Nystrom, then expressed the deep-felt gratitude of the Board and the PubHc to Froken Ellen Key, who for a period of twenty years had been an honour to the People's Institute. That her comprehensive and graphic por- trayal of the phases of civilisation under dis- cussion never even suggested a divergence from a high conception of the significance of morality, has been certified by those who at- tended her private as well as her public lectures, in spite of the insinuations to the contrary that have been noised abroad. She has always warned against submission to authoritative dogma. She has ever empha- sised individual responsibility regarding the thoughts and events of past ages just as much as towards the fluctuating ideas and occurrences of our own day. The gatherings called "Tolftema"' may ' In this, her one and only "organisation, " Ellen Key has been consistently true to her hatred of all formality. The meetings of "Tolftema" have taken place regularly for more than twenty years, without any red tape, club, board, or statutes, but under absolute self-government, to the satisfaction of all concerned. Ellen Key had before taken part in a similar movement, the Dressmakers' Society, where she used to entertain the members once a week with talks, recitations, etc., and here, as well as