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Title: Essays on Scandinavian Literature

Author: Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

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ESSAYS ON SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE

by

HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

Goethe and Schiller. Their Lives and Works; with a commentary on "Faust."
Essays on German Literature.
Essays on Scandinavian Literature.
A Commentary on the Writings of Henrik Ibsen.
Literary and Social Silhouettes.
The Story of Norway.
Gunnar.
Tales from Two Hemispheres.
A Norseman's Pilgrimage.
Falconberg. A Novel.
Queen Titania.
Ilka on the Hill-top, and Other Tales.
A Daughter of the Philistines.
The Light of Her Countenance.
Vagabond Tales.
The Mammon of Unrighteousness.
The Golden Calf.
Social Strugglers.
Idyls of Norway, and Other Poems.

THE NORSELAND SERIES (JUVENILE).

The Modern Vikings: Stories of Life and Sport in the Northland.
Against Heavy Odds, and A Fearless Trio.
Boyhood in Norway.
Norseland Tales.

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ESSAYS ON SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE

by

HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN

Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures in
Columbia College

London
David Nutt, 270, Strand
1895.

Copyright, 1895, by Charles Scribner's Sons
for the United States of America
Printed by the Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company
New York, U. S. A.

PREFACE

Some twenty years ago the ambition seized me to write a History of
Scandinavian Literature. I scarcely realized then what an enormous
amount of reading would be required to equip me for this task. My
studies naturally led me much beyond the scope of my original intention.
There was a fascination in the work which lured me perpet