The Last Years in Stockholm 139 New Idun, having expressed her conception of Ibsen and women, she had good reason to suppose that her ideas were known. Conse- quently, she abandoned what she has called "her good habit of speaking for herself alone," although she had even then caused fierce opposition, it was naturally much worse now; for vSwedish women felt them- selves called upon to protest against a speech which proclaimed to the world, at home and abroad, that they had entered upon a new epoch, had received a new religion, new ideals, and that their old ideals of morality now be- longed to the "land whose sun had set. " One can hardly blame these two hundred and eighty women, who spoke only for themselves^ as they too were "Swedish women!" During that spring, while so many minds were afire, exaggerations were made by those who defended, as well as by those who at- tacked. The best contribution is to be found in Sve?iska Dagbladet of 18 May, 1898. In this article, all interested in the question are advised to consider what the now generally respected Henrik Ibsen, w^ho became classical, even before his death, had to say in regard to the "liberation of the personality," and this advice is especially directed to the protesting