Public Activity 95 The death of Sonja Kowalewsky, who, in later years, after Anne Charlotte Leffler had left Stockholm, had attached herself to Ellen Key with tenderer intimacy, was felt severely by the latter. Together with a friend she had nursed Sonja Kowalewsky during her last illness, and immediately upon her demise she wrote her obituary which, though short, was rich in content and caused us in the north to realise what she had been. Of Sonja Kowalewsky's life-work we were, of course, not ignorant. What science and literature lost through her death was well known, and the daily press, national and foreign, informed us thereof. But those who considered womanly qualities of prime im.- portance now learned also that the world had lost a true woman, one who "though she was the most celebrated woman-scientist of the century, and perhaps of all time, counted neither science, literature, nor fame as the central thing in life. For her, the heart was the fountain of life. This character sketch was later completed by a fuller mention and genial comprehension of Sonja Kowalewsky's remarkable and com- plex personality and strange life in the bio- graphy of Anne Charlotte Leffler which Ellen