142 Ellen Key in the chair until the fall of 1900, when, going abroad to remain a year, she sent in her resig- nation, to which she has since adhered in spite of re-election. Before she left Stockholm, a pretty festival was arranged by members of New Idun, and the Society expressed in vari- ous ways what Ellen Key had been to them. Nothing but her interest in the new literature induced her to accept the membership offered her in Albert Bonnier's Stipendum fund, formed in 1901, and from which she withdrew at fifty-five years of age, according to its statutes. After Ellen Key's last lecture at the People's Institute, in 1903, which was also the last evening of her life in Stockholm, and which happened to be the 30th of April—Walpurgis Eve—a great ntimber of friends gathered in the ballroom of the Hotel Rydberg to take farewell of her. A solemn as well as festive spirit animated those present. Genial ad- dresses were made in her honour, and she was thanked for the Walpurgis fires of stimulating ideas which she had kindled in our minds. The following words are quoted from her utterances on this occasion " . . . It is not from cowardice or weariness that I retire from this field of action. To all