[11] The North, June 12, 1889.
[12] N. S. Shaler, “European Peasants as Immigrants,” Atlantic, LXXI, 649.
[13] N. P. Haugen comments on the good and bad features of this tendency in his Norway Day speech at the World’s Columbian Exposition. Skandinaven, May 24, 1893.
[14] Borchner, Danish Life in Town and Country, 3-6; Bille, History of the Danes in America, 1, 7, 8.
[15] Statesman’s Year-Book, 1914, 1141 ff.
[16] In 1880, 20% lived in towns; in 1890, 23.7% lived in towns, and 76.3% in the rural districts. Norway (English edition of the official volume prepared for the Paris Exhibition of 1900), 90.
[17] Wm. Archer, “Norway Today,” Fortnightly Rev., XLIV, 415.
[18] Statesman’s Year-Book, 1914, 1316. The increase of urban population was five times the increase of the kingdom.
[19] Statesman’s Year-Book, 1914, 789 ff.
[20] The New York Evening Post, Oct. 10, 1825.