Harper's Weekly, Vol. 49

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Excerpt from Harper's Weekly, Vol. 49: July 1, 1905The Norwmian poet. Novelist. And dramatist, Blant mma bjousmxx. Who for some months has been en lightening the English people about Norwegian a¿aira through the London press, expanses in the Daily Chronicle mm at the worse pursued by the Storming. Which he looks upon as hasty and needlessly provocative. Lie thinks that the question whether the union of Sweden and Norwu ought to be dissolved should have been referred to the people at the general election eighteen montha hence, when in all likelihood a majority of the Swedes. As well as of the Norwegian, would have sanctioned the secession of Norway at the ballot-box As it is. The novelist opincs that union King 0mm: cements to nominate a prince of the home of Brannon: [or the Nor wegian throne, Norway will become republican, modelling its form of government on the Swing pattern. It will he remem bered that in Switzerland the functions of the Federal Execu tive are delegated to a Federal council consisting of seven members elected by the Fedeml Assembly. Thme seven conn eillon are jointly responsible for all emtire business, though, for the sake of convenience. There an various departments, and their chairman is called the President of the Confedera tion. We learn with interest that Mr. Bananas expects to vitoon an improvement in the relations of Sweden and Nor way us soon as the two countries shall hat/e lust-onto completely independent. He looks forward to the ultimate conclusion of a defensive alliance of the three Scandinavian kingdoms. To which he hopes that Gemtany, Holland. Belgium. And Switzerland may beemne portion Ilia ideal would he a great Teutonic coalition, to which Great Britain and the United States Would be ndmimihle. Only in some illicit way. He thinks, can the public mind he prepared for emancipation from war.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.