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Excerpt from Things Seen in Sweden The growing interest in Sweden, which has steadily increased since the sensation caused by the Olympic Games in 1912, has induced me to write this little work on that picturesque, unfamiliar country, which since the days of Charles XII. has ceased to be a first-class Power. Although no longer occupying the honoured place that was hers before she was involved in that gigantic and unequal struggle with Russia, Saxony, Prussia, Denmark, and Norway, which stripped her of her position and territories on the Baltic, she, like other once great nations, is well worthy our attention and interest. Her renaissance during the last hundred years in the spheres of art, science, and almost every branch of industry, is indeed most astonishing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.