134 Ellen Key of the scientific, artistic, and literary world taking part. Ellen Key had remained in Helsingfors over the 1 1 th of December, want- ing to avoid any celebration of her fiftieth birthday, never thinking that any one in Helsingfors knew the significance of that day. But in this she was mistaken. The farewell banquet became a birthday festival, at which Professor V. Soderhjelm and Helena Vester- mark eloquently expressed the sympathies already aroused by Ellen Key's writings and which were now greatly strengthened by her visit.' In the spring of 1900, Ellen Key went abroad, spending four months in London, England, and Scotland, then going on to Brittany and Paris at the time of the great world exposition, continuing on to Italy, making a long stay in Rome, and shorter visits to Naples and Sicily, and returning home in June, 1901, by v/ay of Vienna, Dres- den, and Berlin. The columns of Vienna's foremost newspapers showed by their de- ' Her impressions of this visit are described in a publication entitled: In Finland and Russia. She has also published her Thoughts on Peace, The Peace Movement and Culture (Fram's Pub. Co.), and Addresses to the Youth of Sweden, all touching more or less on the same sphere of ideas as the above-mentioned booklets.