Public Activity 135 scriptions the great attention paid Ellen Key. From the many speeches made in honour of Ellen Key we may quote the following significant phrase: "You have sown words, and you shall harvest people. We love you. '"^ Ever since Ellen Key wrote her first obitu- ary of Ernst Ahlgren, she has often had the grievous occasion of writing about departed friends. She has done this in such a way that one can well understand Hellen Lind- gren, who once said of Ellen Key's obituaries that one almost wished to die to have her write about one. Karl August Tavaststjema, K. af Geijerstam,^ and Hellen Lindgren be- long to those of whom Ellen Key has written after death. The space does not allow ftirther mention of these or other of her shorter or longer biographical and literary essays, first pub- lished in different periodicals, and of which later those on C. J. L. Almqvist, The Brown- ings, Goethe, Rahel Varnhagen, Malvida von Meysenbug, and Bjornson (a greeting on his seventieth birthday), published in book form, are best known. There is so much less need ' Her lecture in Vienna was delivered in German, and the sub- ject was the life-work of the late Arthur Hazelius. ' Swedish writers. —Translator's footnote.