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Title: The panorama of nations : comprising the characteristics of courage, perseverance, enterprise, cunning, shrewdness, vivacity, ingenuity, contempt of danger and of death exhibited by people of the principal nations of the world, as illustrated in narratives of peril and adventure
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Auburn, N.Y. : Beardsley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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InStockholm, there are many who delight to keep up old customs,especially those relating to festivals, but the number diminishesas the intercourse of the inhabitants of other countries increases.A noted literary lady, writing from Stockholm to a friend inEngland, gives a very interesting account of the celebrationof Christmas in that city, which we think worthy of quota-tion :— But I must now conduct you into my home, my humble home ;but still there is to be found there the best which can be foundunder the sun, from the juice of the grape, and silk, and gilding—but all in the right proportion to my ability, my position inlife, and my requirings, which I do not allow to go swarming aboutafter pleasure, but put them early under a queen-bees guid-ance. He is always satisfied with himself and what belongs tohim/ you may, perhaps, dear brother, somewhat caluraniouslyremark. We have a great festival to-day, you must know, and it may possibly so happen that the smell of candles and (402)
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CHRISTMAS IN SWEDEN. 405 now, also, there is an abominable smell of sealing-wax! That isbecause my wife is packing up and sealing Christmas boxes!The smell of tarts and roast meat, and the rejoicing of children,get rather into my head. It is Christmas eve, dear brother, aday which, through the whole of Sweden, is celebrated in castleand cottage with gifts given and received; with the best thatpeople have of this worlds wealth. For a month past one hasseen that the festival was coming by the increase of life and bus-tle over the whole country, as if the whole country got itselfready for a feast. In the capital it seems as if a population of80,000 souls had, all at once, increased to 100,000, and as if thebodies of all their souls had no more rest within the house.People drive, people walk, or rather people trudge up and down,from morning till night. People meet, people cross, people jostleone another in the crowds, in streets and lanes. At the turningon each hand one hears the words, *

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