Public Activity i33 much one bewailed and lamented such "treach- ery toward her fatherland," there are few at present who can deny that she was right in her comparison, at the time and place she applied it. In this connection may be mentioned another action in a certain sense political. Ellen Key was the first Swede who, following the changed conditions in Finland in the fall of 1899, went there and gave a series of lectures,'' in the crowded assembly hall of the University, and thus manifested the willingness of the Swedes to keep up the spiritual intercourse between the two peoples. She chose the French Salons as her subject, so as to get a chance in her last discourse, which dealt with Madame de Stael, to express indirectly the thoughts and emotions stirring the minds of the audience. The lively sympathies Ellen Key aroused in Finland, and of which the papers bore witness, in spite of their constraint, found their final expression in the farewell festival which was arranged in her honour, members ' At the time of the disruption of the Union in 1905, Ellen Key came before the public with a discourse in favour of peace at Heden in Gothembourg, and in the autumn she gave the ad- dress which was later published under the title: The Future of Scandinavianism. 'Later published in At-^"v.m.