Public Activity 93 with Camilla Collett, and was published in 1874. Then followed literary and critical reviews and biographical studies of English women writers, all treated from the point of view of the highest idealism, especially as touching upon love and marriage. Shortly after the publication of her first book, How Reactions Arise, in 1889, another book appeared. The unfortunate Ernst Ahl- gren' had recently ended her life, and, bound to her by the ties of friendship and sympathy, Ellen Key wrote her monograph, the sad story of one who "meets death on every path," the desire for life having been quenched by thoughts of death, unsatisfied life-needs annihilating the struggling, yearning, highly gifted woman and author. Shortly afterward Ellen Key suffered other grievous losses. Two friends intimately asso- ciated with her since 1880, when her circle gradually had become that of the literary and artistic Vdnstern,^ were stricken by death in their best years,—Sonja Kowalewsky, who died in 1 89 1, and Anne Charlotte LcfQer, Duchessa di Cajanello in 1892. On New Year's Eve ' Nom de plume of Victoria Benedictsson, a Swedish writer. —Translator's footnote. ' Left, the Liberals, as against the Right, the Conservatives. —Translator's footnote.