Miss Lagerlöf is intensely racial and national in her literary reflections; she is international in her sympathies and insight into problems of life. Love of home is one of the primal qualities of her personality and writing. She has applied her creed of “keeping the imagination young” by never losing her own delight in sagas, hero tales, and “belief in fairies” that will enhearten and redeem humanity. Edwin Björkman, in _Voices of Tomorrow_, has stressed her ability and courage “to dream and feel and aspire.” Her literary work varies in excellence; sometimes it is weak in structure and ineffective in artistry; in other and major portions she has clothed the commonplace incidents of life with original, new vitality and revealed their meanings with imaginative beauty. Her characters and settings are racial but her impulses and messages are universal, unconfined by land or age. FOOTNOTES: [67] Inscription with the Nobel Prize Award in Literature, 1909. [68] _Selma Lagerlöf; The Woman, Her Work, Her Message_ by Harry E. Maule, Garden City, N. Y., 1917. By permission of Doubleday, Page & Co. [69] _Miracles of Antichrist_ by Selma Lagerlöf, translated by Pauline Bancroft Flach, Garden City, N. Y., 1899. By permission of Doubleday, Page & Co. [70] _Jerusalem_ by Selma Lagerlöf, translated by Velma Swanston Howard, Garden City, N. Y., 1916. By permission of Doubleday, Page & Co. [71] _Selma Lagerlöf: The Woman, Her Work, Her Message_ by Harry E. Maule, Garden City, N. Y., 1917. By permission of Doubleday, Page & Co. CHAPTER VIII PAUL HEYSE (1910)--GERHART HAUPTMANN (1912) The prize of 1910 has been awarded: Heyse, Paul, born 1830, died April 2, 1914: “as a mark of esteem of an artistry, finished and marked by an ideal conception, which he has shown during a long and significant activity as lyric dramatist, and as an author of romances and famous short stories.”[72]