i6o Ellen Key land, France, and Italy. The siimmer of 1894 she spent, in solitude, in a little peasant cot- tage in Varmland, in the neighbourhood where Erik Gustaf Geijer' was bom, while she finished Life-Lines, iii. In 1895, she went on a many months' lecture tour in Germany, and she created such enthusiasm wherever she went that the houses were always crowded when she ascended the platform. Love and yearning for her motherland brought her back to Sweden, to the joy of all who appreciate her; and their number has steadily increased. One begins to understand that Ellen Key's teaching of Freedom is fundamentally a teaching of loyalty to all that is genuine in all relations of life, and her teach- ing of purity is beginning to be appreciated more and more by the younger generation. Her greatest victory is, that pure-minded young men have made their own her demands of true marriage. One of the prettiest proofs of this is, that she has been immortaUsed through a styHstic portrait in oils by Einar Nielson, a Danish artist. He represents her as a seeress, somewhat of a sibyl, a high priestess of life, and has made this inscription on his work : Havde jeg kunnet give Din Aands ' Swedish poet.