Public Activity 125 voices of those trying to solve the great social problem, the mutual interfusion of Individ- ualism and Socialism. In a review of this book of Ellen Key's, Professor Gustaf Steffen said: "So far as I know there has not been written, either in English, German, or French, any compre- hensive popular treatise which, with such fearless independence, such straightforward- ness in argument, inspiring confidence, such epigrammatically pointed language, poetic and polished form, has wrestled with the newest of all questions, viz., how to find the higher unity which harmonises the individualistic and socialistic tendencies of our age. . . . An exhaustive contrast study of Nietzsche's and Tolstoy's ideas is one of the most alluring undertakings that our day has to offer an essayist like Ellen Key, with her sure in- stinct for the inner unity of nature's organic contrasts." The final pages in the last chapter are an exhortation to the youth of other countries to follow the example which England then af- forded. Seeing youth influenced by the spirit of reaction, she tried to inspire in them hopes for the future and desire for action, with words like these : "The noble age of youth is capable