Up to March 1, 1915, about twenty merchant vessels of various nationalities were destroyed or damaged in the war zone established by Germany, including Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, American and British ships.

There were three Norwegian, two Swedish, and one Danish merchant vessel sunk.

=Our Little Mexican Cousin= By Edward C. Butler =Our Little Norwegian Cousin= =Our Little Panama Cousin= By

I saw it again in his room when I went in there to look at the plans of the Norwegian estate which he had told me about.

E. Sorany or Sorani, of which Sinclair is said to have been duke or lord, Mr Forster considers to have been the Sodor-oe, or southern islands of the Norwegians, or those now called the Western Islands; and traces the corruption from the Norwegian plural Suder-oer contracted Soroer, varied Soroen and transmuted to Sorani.

At length he bethought him of a sport he had seen practised during a visit he paid once to some relatives in Minnesota, where the many Norwegian immigrants practised the art of running upon the skies.

Of course you know all about the Norwegian ski, but perhaps your younger brother does not, so I will say for his benefit that the ski is a sort of Norwegian snow-shoe, only it is almost as swift as the seven-league boots.

Let us for a moment imagine that something terrible has happened; that our statesmen have at last got their addition sums in Dreadnoughts right, and have learned by hard experience that we have less than two to one and therefore are wiped from the seas; or that our august Russian ally, using Finland as a base, has established an immense naval port in the Norwegian fiords and thence poured the Tartar and Cossack hordes over our islands.

Other languages at which he worked during this period were Spanish, of which he acquired the rudiments during his tour in California; and Dano-Norwegian, which he picked up during a month's residence at Christiania in 1877, and furbished for a meeting of the Evangelical Alliance at Copenhagen in 1884.

Translated from the Norwegian by Arthur G. Chater.

Translated from the Norwegian by Edwin Bjorkman.

ROLVAAG, O. E. The boat of longing (Laengselns baat) Translated from the Norwegian by Nora O. Solum.

Translated from the Norwegian by J. B. C. Watkins.

Translated from the Norwegian by Isaac Anderson.

Broomstick and snowflake, from the Norwegian.

Translated from the Norwegian by Dagny Mortenson & Margery W. Bianco.

THE EARLIEST NORWEGIAN LAWS; being the Gulathing law and the Frostathing law.

Translated from the old Norwegian by Laurence M. Larson.

THE LAST OF THE VIKINGS, by John Bojer; translated from the Norwegian by Jessie Muir.

The Norwegian fairy book.

Translated from the Norwegian.

" The higher correlative of physical distance is a difference of state or condition, according to the Norwegian seer.

There are in the South Kensington Museum, plaster casts of some three or four carved doorways of Norwegian workmanship, of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries, in which scrolls are entwined with contorted monsters, or, to quote Mr. Lovett's description, "dragons of hideous aspect and serpents of more than usually tortuous proclivities."

[Illustration: A Carved Norwegian Doorway.

Before the accession of the Romanoff dynasty in the sixteenth century, the Ruric race of kings came originally from Finland, then a province of Sweden; and, so far as one can see from old illuminated manuscripts, there was a similarity of design to those of the early Norwegian and Swedish carved lintels which have been noticed above.