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PREFACE.
IX
and the majority acceded to this request. On account of deaths and other
causes, however, the staff of authors has been subject to considerable and
continuous changes, besides which a considerable increase in the staff has
been rendered necessary by the above-mentioned necessity of gaining time
by distributing the work among a large number of workers, and by the
circumstance that new questions had arisen, which required treatment
in the book.
The great changes in the economic and cultural life of Sweden, which
characterize the last decade, have necessitated a very thorough revision of
most of the articles of the first edition, and some of the authors have
preferred entirely to re-write the articles entrusted to them.
As the final revision preceding the printing of the English issue had been
already finished during the course of 1914, with respect to certain parts of
the work — it has not been possible to revise the various parts in regular
order — and as the statistical data have only become available at very
different times, the statistics in the different articles suffer from some
inconsistency as regards the years for which the latest returns are given.
However, all returns involving figures, as well as other data, the Editor
has endeavoured to bring up to date, as far as circumstances have allowed
in each particular case. The insertion of new figures and data, which
have come to hand at later stages of the editorial work, have of necessity
had to be left over till the next (Swedish) issue, in order to ensure the
publication of the work within the prescribed time. As this work, however,
does not aim at being an up-to-date statistical year-book, but a handbook
giving a cross-sectional view of the economic and cultural life of Sweden,
the circumstances here referred to should not affect the general scope of
the wonk.
Special attention has still been paid to the illustrations, in the selection
of which the Editor has had the benefit of the advice of the respective
authors and experts. By replacing some of the older illustrations by
new ones, the Editor has endeavoured to present a faithful and
characteristic pictorial idea of the subject under treatment, so far as
considerations of space and expense have allowed.
The thorough revision of the first edition and the addition of
new articles rendered necessary by the advancing development of the
country, as well as the increased number of illustrations — consisting
in no small measure of maps and diagrams — has had as a result that
the present edition has grown considerably in bulk, compared with the
first English issue (comprising I 154 pages). As one of the more note-
Ilf—133179. Sweden. /.
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