The rector’s daughter stood and looked for a long time after the old umbrella swaying on top of the little cart.
Miss Irene Holm had announced a “spring course in modern society dances” in a little town nearby. Six pupils were promised. It was thither she was going now—to continue the thing we call Life.
THE OUTLAWS
BY SELMA LAGERLÖF
Selma Lagerlöf, at one time teacher at Landskrona, has just recently been crowned the people’s favorite authoress at the national Swedish festival held in 1907. She was born in 1858, on the ancestral estate of Wärmland, where she found the material for her first stories, “Gösta Berling’s Saga,” a fantastic collection of child-reminiscences modeled after the problem-literature then in vogue, and rendered enormously popular by reason of a happy linking of the old romanticism with the new realistic truthfulness to nature.
In 1895 she traveled abroad, and soon after produced her famous Sicilian tales. Her “Memoirs of Madame Ristori,” the great Italian tragic actress, containing important pictures of Madame Ristori’s contemporaries, Tommaso Salvini, Dumas Père, and others, have lately been translated into English.
Selma Lagerlöf’s style, ideally represented in “The Outlaws,” the best of her tales, is calm, sure, broad, and poetic.
