(p. 4). Every one of us who has tried to decipher handwritten records can only sympathize with Mr. Porter, who directs the reader's attention justifiably to the reproduced petition for the creation of Wyoming Township (p. 28), by way of illustration. But occasionally one wonders: "Lar Oss Betan-Ka Att VI Do Maste" surely is "Lär oss betänka att vi dö måste." But Robert Porter deserves the appreciation of every one who is interested in Swedish-American history. He has produced an interesting and useful book.

WALTER JOHNSON University of Washington

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Emeroy Johnson has edited Helmer L. Quist, Farmer-Writer: Selections from his Reminiscences (St. Peter: Nelson Printing Company, 1982. Pp. 30. Illustrated.) As Dr. Johnson says in the preface, it is "Helmer Quist's own life story, a sort of autobiography, with a minimum of editorial changes and comments." Aging readers should find the little book interesting: the excerpts from an obviously intelligent and good man's account of a life that spanned seventy-two years (1909-1981) offers informative and nostalgic reminders of a "Swedish America" that no longer exists. For example: "There was Swedish school. We had English school in winter. But God must be a Swede. At any rate Swedish was the natural language. We should not neglect our great heritage." Or: "Second Sunday after Easter, rain, cold, drizzle. Where did I go? Mother and Dad's graves. A patch or two of snow under the trees. Some of the old marble grave stones are in bad shape. ... Should I come back some day to repair the Peterson family lot? There is work which needs to be done. There are so many familiar names in this silent city. I am alone. Yet my mind is crowded with memories. They are gone. Their names are on stone." [WJ] * * * Nancy Lindberg's Pinzke's Faces of Utopia: A Bishop Hill Family Album (, 1982) will make a welcome addition to 83 anyone's collection of Swedish Americana. Accompanied by a concise text, it is an attractively printed collection of old Bishop Hill photographs, which as the author says, are "unretouched to retain the antique character of the originals." The collection has a broad range, from artifacts and buildings to the inhabitants of the community in times gone by. [WJ] * * * According to news from Sweden, the first complete Swedish edition of Fredrika Bremer's Hemmen i den Nya Världen since its original publication in 1853-1854 will soon be available in six volumes, at ninety-five crowns per volume. Orders can be sent to Seelig & Co., S-171 20 Solna, or to K/B Sterno-Coordinato, Stråkvägen 8, S-171 38 Solna, Sweden. * * * Johan Edvard Liljeholm's pioneer reminiscences are now available in print in Swedish. First published in translation by the Augustana Historical Society as Pioneering Adventures of Johan Edvard Liljeholm in America 1846-1850 (Rock Island, 111., 1962), it has been republished with an introduction and com• mentaries by Olov Isaksson under the title, Det förlovade land. Resa i Amerika 1846-1850 (Stockholm: LTs förlag, 1981. Pp. 131. Liberally illustrated). The notes and commentaries in what is essentially an attractive volume are marred by errors that may have resulted from careless proofreading or ignorance. Just a few examples: L.L.D. Schodlcraft and L.L.D. Scodlcraft (p. 125) (Schoolcraft?); "Pin [sic] Lake ca. 50 kilometer väster om nuvarande Milwaukee" (p. 10); and, curiously, "Hans [Nordberg's] berättelser om denna trakt ledde till en betydande svensk invandring och lade grunden till bosättningen vid Chicago Lake. De första nybyggarna där tillhörde utvandrare från Ljuder i Småland, bland dem förebilderna [!] till Kristina och Karl-Oskar i Mobergs emigrantepos." [WJ] * * * The University of Nebraska Press continues adding to its paperback series books that should interest many of our readers. Among the latest reprints is Ole Rölvaag's Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later (Lincoln, 1982. vii + 325 pp.), the sequel to Giants in the Earth (1924-1925). In addition to making this important novel easily available to American readers, it is to be hoped that the third volume, Their

84 Father's God (1931), will be republished. Gudrun Hovde Gvåle has supplied an introduction. * # *

Dal-Amerika-emigrantöden (n. p., 1982, 150 pp., illustrated), by Arne Alexandersson, is an account of emigration from Dalsland, based on twenty-two recently discovered "America-letters" written by Carl Carlsson from Gunnarsnäs in 1891-97. Illustrations are by Carl Zackariasson. * * * In connection with recent exhibits of the work of the Swedish-born Minnesota artist, B. J. O. Nordfeldt (1878-1955) in Trenton, New Jersey, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, Emily Abbott Nordfeldt and Peggy Lewis have brought out Shared Nonsense from the Letters of B.J. O. Nordfeldt (n. p., 1982, 90 pp., $15.00), containing 77 sketches from the artist's letters to his future wife. * * * Carolyn Anderson Wilson and J. Hiram Wilson, following detailed comparative studies in Bishop Hill, , and in the Swedish provinces, especially Hälsingland, from which the Bishop Hill colonists came in the 1840s and '50s, have submitted their findings in a report to the Illinois State Department of Conservation, Division of Historic Sites, in Springfield. Amounting to 312 pages in typescript, plus extensive appendices, their report, dated 30 June 1980, is entitled Material Culture in the Bishop Hill Colony: Restoration Inventory for the Bishop Hill Historic Site. * * * Anna Enquist's Scandia—Then and Now (Scandia, Minn.: 1982, ca. 200 pp., illustrated, $12.00) is the story of Scandia in Washington County, the first permanent Swedish settlement in Minnesota, founded in 1850, told by the acknowledged expert on the subject. (It may be ordered from the American Swedish Institute, 2600 Park Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55407; add $1.50 for postage and handling.) * * * Likewise available through the American Swedish Institute bookstore (above) is Swedish Roots (n. p., 1982, ca. 200 pp., illustrated) by Lorraine Anderson Lovain, which tells the story of 85 the author's grandparents, who immigrated to America following the Civil War. * * * The theology of and his sect as revealed in their hymnody is discussed by Alan Swanson in "The Texts of the Janssonist Song-Book: A Preliminary Report," in Scandinavian Studies, 54 (1982), 205-19. This comprises a companion piece to his earlier "The Music to the Janssonist Song-Book: A Preliminary Report," Scandinavian Studies, 53 (1981), 165-70. * * * Robert C. Ostergren analyzes the persistent ties between four villages in Rättvik parish, Dalarna, and Isanti County, Minnesota, from the mid-1860s onward, in "Kinship Networks and Migration: A Nineteenth-Century Swedish Example," Social Science History, 6 (1982), 293-320. * * * In his "Om etnicitet, i Sverige och Amerika," in Fenno-Ugrica Suecana, 5 (1982), 111-19, Folke Hedblom speculates over some possible reasons for lower ethnic consciousness among the Swedish element in Canada as compared with the . * * * The Jenny Lind Chapel Committee of Andover, Illinois, has reprinted The Esbjörn Diaries (Andover, 111.: 1982, 40 pp.), consisting of the travel diary of Lars Paul Esbjörn, the first Swedish Lutheran pastor to come to the Midwest—to Andover—in 1849, covering his journey to America, first printed in translation by O. L. Nordstrom in Augustana Historical Society Publications, 5 (1935), 11-34, and Esbjörn's diary, kept in his own English, from his trip to the East in 1851 to solicit funds for the construction of Swedish Lutheran churches in Illinois and Iowa, originally printed in the Augustana Quarterly, 23 (1944), 323-39. * * * The first part of the Minnesalbum brought out by the church council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Andover, Illinois, on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the congregation in 1910, dealing with the ministry of the first two pastors, L. P. Esbjörn and Jonas Swensson, has been translated by Margaret Nelson and likewise published by the Jenny Lind Chapel 86 Committee (Andover, 111.: 1982,21 pp.), under the title Memorial Album. * * * Håkan Eilert, who served as pastor to the Swedish congregation in Melbourne, Australia, in 1977—82, presents the history of the congregation and Melbourne's Swedish community in Källa invid öknens rand. En bok om svenskar och svenskt kyrkoliv i Melbourne 1856-1981, Emigrant-institutets skriftserie, 3 (Växjö: Emigrantinstitutet, 1982). * * * The Multicultural History Society of Ontario (43 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C3, Canada) has published a useful guide to the tape-recording of oral history, Oral Testimony and Ethnic Studies (14 pp.), by Robert F. Harney. * * * In "The Bronx—The Swedish Connection," in Nordstjernan-Svea () for 10 June 1982, Brian G. Andersson discusses the Swedish origin of Jonas Bronck, founder of The Bronx in Dutch New Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. (Note also G. V. C. Young, The Founder of the Bronx, 1981, in "OTHER PUBLICATIONS" in the QUARTERLY for April 1982, Vol. XXXIIII:2, p. 148.) * * * An interesting article without a byline, "Hallandale in Florida Founded by Swedish Farmers in the 1890s" in Nordstjernan-Svea (New York) for 24 June 1982, gives a historical sketch of this community settled by Swedes from Iowa and elsewhere in the Middle West. * * * We have been sent a new English-language reader for Swedish schools, Together/American Relations (Lund: LiberLäromedel, 1982, 49 pp.); its subject matter is drawn from material on the Swedes in America, including some emigrant letters in English translation. * * * Noomi Augustsson's Bonader med budskap. Lands bonadsbok (Stockholm: LTs förlag, 1981, 132 pp., illustrated, Skr. 140:-) deals with the golden age of embroidered wall-hangings. The 87 author notes that many such bonader were sent as gifts to America, often with patriotic or nostalgic motifs inspired by the contemporary anti-emigration propaganda. * * * Erik Wahlgren, professor emeritus of Scandinavian at University of California, Los Angeles, has written to us on 6 July 1982: "Pleased to find myself quoted in the article on oral history by Edward F. and Gerda Sundberg (SAHQ for July 1982, Vol. XXXIII:3, 165-66), I wish to comment on the date "1969," inasmuch as the chronology of a well-known institution is involved. My lecture did indeed appear in print in 1969 (in an issue of Oregon Folklore nominally dated 1968). The lecture had been delivered at Lewis and Clark College in 1967 as part of the celebration of the college centennial in that year."

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