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Excerpt from Roman Days: From the Swedish Viktor Rydberg was born at Jonkoping, a city of the province of Smaland, in Sweden, December 18, 1829. It was in the same province that a century and a quar ter earlier Karl von Linn, the King of the Flowers, opened those eyes to which nature was to reveal SO many of its mysteries, and where, too, was born in our days Christina Nilsson, predestined to a world-wide fame in another sphere, the realm of song. 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.