lse perished, Coiranus alone was saved by a dolphin.
And when at last he died of old age in his native country, as it so
happened that his funeral procession passed along the seashore close to
Miletus, a great shoal of dolphins appeared on that day in the harbor,
keeping only a very little distance from those who were attending the
funeral of Coiranus, as if they also were joining in the procession and
sharing in their grief."

The same Phylarchus also relates, in the twentieth book of his
'History,' the great affection which was once displayed by an elephant
for a boy. And his words are these:--

"Now there was a female elephant kept with this elephant, and the name
of the female elephant was Nicaea; and to her the wife of the king of
India, when dying, intrusted her child, which was just a month old. And
when the woman did die, the affection for the child displayed by the
beast was most extraordinary; for it could not endure the child to be
away; and whenever it did not see him, it was out of spirits. And so,
whenever the nurse fed the infant with milk, she placed it in its cradle
between the feet of the beast; and if she had not done so, the elephant
would not take any food; and after this, it would take whatever reeds
and grass there were near, and, while the child was sleeping, beat away
the flies with the bundle. And whenever the child wept, it would rock
the cradle with its trunk, and lull it to sleep. And very often the male
elephant did the same."

PER DANIEL AMADEUS ATTERBOM

(1790-1855)

Among the leaders of the romantic movement which affected Swedish
literature in the earlier half of the nineteenth century was P.D.A.
Atterbom, one of the greatest lyric poets of his country. He was born in
Ostergoethland, in 1790, and at the age of fifteen was already so
advanced in his studies that he entered the University of Upsala. There
in 1807 he helped to found the "Musis Amici," a students' society of
literature and art; its membership included Hedbom, who is remembered
for his beautiful hymns, and the able and laborious Palmblad,--author of
several popular books, including the well-known novel 'Aurora
Koenigsmark.' This society soon assumed the name of the Aurora League,
and set itself to free Swedish literature from French influence. The
means chosen were the study of German romanticism, and a treatment of
the higher branches of literature in direct opposition to the course
decreed by the Academical s