The Swedish Department of Church Affairs and Education (_Kungl. Ecklesiastik-Departmentet_) publishes statistical reports covering the work of the common schools (_Berättelse om folkskolorna_) and the higher schools for boys (_Berättelse om Statens Allmänna läroverk för gossar_). The board of directors of the common schools and the rectors of the various higher schools for boys in Stockholm also prepare elaborate annual reports which contain information regarding the physical training of pupils. FOOTNOTES: [135] See footnote page 128. [136] A description based primarily on extensive personal observation, supplemented by interviews and the study of official documents, has so many advantages over a compilation made at a distance that this chapter has been left substantially in the form given to it soon after the period of residence in Stockholm referred to on page 163. It therefore applies to conditions as they existed in 1900. A second, briefer visit in the spring of 1913 revealed minor changes, but the general impression given by the article as it first appeared in the _American Physical Education Review_ (=6=, 1-13) for March, 1901, and in condensed form in _Mind and Body_ (=11=, 105-111) for July, 1904, remains essentially correct. [137] Gymnastiska Dagöfningar för Folkskolan. Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1881. Second edition in 1891. A German translation by J. A. Selter and J. H. Jarisch, under the title “Das schwedische Schulturnen,” was published in 1907 (Marburg, N. G. Elwert). This book has now been superseded by Törngren’s manual of 1905 (see footnote on p. 162). Special attention should also be called to Elin Falk’s three-volume “Dagövningar i Gymnastik för Stockholms Folkskolor” (Stockholm, P. Palmquist, 1915 and 1916). CHAPTER XVIII. PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN DENMARK.[138] [Illustration: FIG. 45.—Franz Nachtegall (1777-1847).]