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I have only spent a short time in Stockholm, and have
got to love it and its people; but I feel that I do not half know
it, and that my description of its charms must scem feeble to
those who have entered fully into its life.
There are many watering places within easy reach of the
city. The one most spöken of is Saltsjöbaden, a small pleasure
resort on an arm of the Baltic about half an houris joumey
from the city. There are to be found a huge hotel, a large
restaurant, and a few houses sprinkled about the shore. The
Stockholm people are enthusiastic irr its praise; yet I must
con-fess that for me it had no special attractiveness. It lacks an
expansive outlook, and the houses look almost like adjuncts to
the hotel.
Sweden is justly proud of its universities, of which there
are four, respectively situated in Upsala, Lund, Stockholm and
Gotenburg. These universities are well equipped, their
curriculum is comprehensive, and their schcme of education
tho-rough. Upsala and Lund are the two largest. I was mucli
interested to find that in Upsala, and I presume also in Lund,
a system prevails, which pertains also to the Scottish
Universities, of dividing the students into nations according to the
localities they come from. Both of these University citics are
most interesthig apart from educational associations. Upsala
has a beautiful cathedral and a magnificent library, and the
cathedral at Lund is one of the finest specimens of
Roma-nesque architecture I have seen anywhere. Among the
trea-sures of the Carolina Library at Upsala, I would recommend
to the attention of the curious (besides the famous “Codex
Argentcus”) a Chinese Map of the World dated 1702 from
which recent African explorers might have profited, and a series
of letters written in 1718 by a student of the university to
his Satanic Majesty to whose patronäge tradition saith the
student afterwards owed a theological professorship!
Gamla Upsala, about three English miles from the chief
university city, is one of the most interesting places in
Sweden. There one can commune with the ancient pagan gods,
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