140 Ellen Key- ladies, a majority of whom, without doubt, would be found to be Ibsen admirers, but who misconstrue his ideas when expressed through Ellen Key. Our memory may be refreshed by a recapit- lilation of what Ibsen has said in Brand, in The Doll's House, Ghosts, in poetry, letters, and addresses, and we shall then find how close Ellen Key's line of thought kept to his. The consequences of her Ibsen speech must have proved to Ellen Key that she was right in her instinct to avoid as much as possible all public tasks. Her antipathy to club work of every kind has been as strong as it has been consistent. Except in the Society for Married Women's Property Rights, Ellen Key has been active only in Tolftema and in New Idun. The purpose of this latter society was discussed and accepted by a small group of ladies, of w^hom Ellen Key was one. There had long existed in Stockholm a men's society called Idun, and, in 1885 these ladies decided to form a women's society after the same pattern; the object being to offer opportunity for stim- tilating social intercourse and exchange of ideas. The members of New Idun are re- cruited from the women artists and brain- workers of Stockholm, and the object of the