96 Ellen Key Key wrote upon her death, and where, in loving memory of these two friends, she gives a keen interpretation of their different temper- aments, and throws new Hght upon their characters.' In the fates of these women, Ellen Key saw fresh proof of her oft-expressed contention that for the womanly woman the heart-life is the central thing. The book, Anne Charlotte Leffler, Duchessa di Cajanello, Some Biographical Notes, contains, in spite of its modest title, a masterly char- acterisation of her personality, and the reader is also introduced to Sweden's hterary world of 1 880. The book was translated into Danish, German, and Russian, and judged by the fore- most critics as an exemplary biography. In this work we get a good insight into the author's own personality, and we may well agree with a re\'iewer that "with her ingrained unsel- fishness which never denies itself, she simply and unaffectedly avoids introducing herself to the reader though she makes the third, and not the least prominent, in this trio of friend- ship and genius." George Brandes gives ' The sketch of Sonja Kowalewsky as well as the biographies of Victoria Benedictsson (Ernst Ahlgren) and Anne Charlotte Leflfler have been published in one volume in Germany under the title of Drei Frauenschicksale.