Dedication
TO
THORSTEN LAURIN
Friend of Artists
Patron of the Arts
Acknowledgments
The special thanks of the translator are due to the American-Scandinavian Foundation of New York City for permission to include the stories by Verner von Heidenstam from the two volumes of The Charles Men, as well as for stories by Söderberg and Siwertz which appeared in the American Scandinavian Review.
Three stories by Söderberg were published in Hearst’s Magazine, and others in The Freeman, The Bookman, World Fiction and The Wave. Hallström’s “Out of the Dark” appeared in The Double Dealer. We gladly acknowledge our debt to the proprietors of these magazines for allowing us to reprint from their pages.
Our chief debt is, however, to the original authors and to A. Bonnier and Co., Stockholm, for the right to translate these specimens of Swedish genius into another language.