174 Ellen Key but very significant books : TJie Life of Rahd Varnhagen in 1908, which was paUkiied in German by the Haberland Ptiblishing Co. in Leipzig, and then in Swedish, and which had to be issued here in a second edition within a fortnight. John Landquist, in his brilliant review, points to German Romanticism as the spiritual home of Ellen Key, and says: "None of our modem writers is so satiated by the culture which blossoms around Goethe as is Ellen Key." In Rahel Varnhagen, Ellen Key makes us acquainted with this unique woman, and the milieu in which she lives. This Jewish banker's daughter, who gathered in her salon all that Berlin boasted of genius and culture, is the subject of Ellen Key's '"sjTn- pathetic and living biography." Space does not allow more than passing mention of the books she has sent forth since Life-Lines. In June 1909, the Kvinnororehen appeared in German, in the series Die Gesellschaft published by Martin Buber. According to the publisher's desire she had to confine her- self to the new soul conditions, transitions, and interactions, which the Kv-innororelsen had produced. In The Forum, October, 191 1, I read with pleasure a most excellent essay by Hanna