between the two names as between the men that bore them. Between them there was nothing whatever in common, either mentally, morally, or physically. One was generous to a fa

al face, upon which he wore no beard, but around which clustered curling locks of silvery hair; eyes which were as smiling as his lips, a broad forehead that bore the impress of noble thoughts, an

appreciated, loved and honored in the Norwegian capital, but throughout the entire country, though the sentiments he in

an easily b

neer, physician, or merchant, entitles one to a place on the upper rounds of the social ladder.

eing utterly wanting. No aristocracy is acknowledged, not even that of the office-holder, for in this favored country where privileged persons are unkn

mber of the Storthing; and in this august body, by the well-known probity of his public and private life even more than by his mig

s of her rights, has carefully guarded her individuality. The Storthing will have nothing whatever to do with the Swedish parliament; hence it is only natural that th

ion, he had repeatedly declined a position in the Cabinet; and a stanch defender of all the rights of his

y. Such too is the suspicious reserve of Norwegian men of business, that the Bank of Christiania is unwilling to accept the notes of the Bank of Stockholm! Such too is the clearly defined line of demarkation between the two

ccasions; so, when in 1854 the Storthing was discussing the question of having neither a viceroy nor e

d so worthy was he of this universal respect that no breath of calumny had ever sullied the reputation of either the deputy or the professor. But though he was a Norwegian to the core he was a hot-blooded man, with none of the traditional coldness and apathy of his compatriots;

purpose of making money. Naturally unselfish, he never thought of himself, but continually of others; nor

ne of improvement and of pleasure. He had already explored a part of the region, and it was on his return from the northern districts that the idea of visiting the famous falls of the Rjukan-one of the wonders of the Telemark-first occurred to him. So, after surveying the route of the new railroad-which as yet existed only on paper-between the towns of Drontheim and Christiania, he sent for a guide to conduct him to Dal. H