FAMOUS SWEDISH AUTHOR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 154, 29 June 1912, Page 14

FAMOUS SWEDISH AUTHOR

August Strindberg, the famous Swedish novelist and dramatist, who died recently in Stockholm, was born eixtythree years ago. He had a cad and stormy life, and resided at times in a sanatorium for nervous disease. ' He called himself an unwelcome child, and eaid that throughout his life at home he remained unwelcome, misunderstood, and isolated. Until he reached his thirtieth year his life wae one continuous ttruggle against adversity. At that time, however, his influence began to be felt in literature, and in 1878 his "Master Olof " showed tha-t he wae a dramatic poet of extraordinary breadth and penetration. In all, Strindberg produced fifty-five dramatic works, in addition to a large number of navels, short stories, auto-, biographies, essays, literary and philosophical, and scientific and historical studies. In Sweden his great work, "The Swedish People," ie extraordinarily popular. Strindberg was prosecutedseveral times for the alleged immorality of Borne of his works. Three times he made choice of a wife, and each partnership led to much misery.

The trials of a new type of submarine at 13arrov.— tho iirht in which a quickfiring gun is. mounted for offensive- purpiibfe—would in any caoo attract considerable interest, bul in view o£ the report 1 from abroad of 1 , experiments of the kind thobo Iriak have an added importance (says the Army and Navy Ga/,qtte). _ Al present, owing to the becrecy shown in regard to tne matter, it i& difficult to kiiow what actual progress has been made by France, Germany, and tho United States, in devising an efficient moans of carrying guns m submarines, but there id every reason to believe that our own Admiralty will not be overtaken in this matter any more than it has been in other new, developments of late. In I''ruiicQ tho weapon intended for use- in submarines with which experiments have boen carried out at Cherbourg is reported to. be ol I.4in calibre, and, presumably, it is the same weapon as that ol" which particulars were given in the table of guns of the Schneider firm published in the last issue of the Naval Annual. As compared with this very small weapon, whose muzzle energy is only 119 fcot-tons, and which fires a shell of 1.761b, it is reported that Germany intends to mount a 3.4 in gun in submarines, the projectile of which weighs 9.51b. Moro interesting, however, would it bo to know something of the method of mounting, but upon this point no information boo transpired. Some alternative systems to that of a gun mounted beneath a eliding hatch, which our own designers are understood to havo adbpted, have been put forward, but no very successful resukb hf.ve been achieved by them. Upon another mutter concerning submarines, it h iutere'sting to sco that tho Americans have i;ow copied our system of letters ami runiorals for bubuiarines in preference to names. J-litherto United States submarines have been called after fish in accordance with liio method iium^uruted h.v Mr. Bonajjarte, a former tecretary, but t-uch names urn ho be tibolibhed, u'ntl the various types will be lettered from "A" to "i£."