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Show M'- Old Ibsen Mf.. H ' A very r&inarknblo discovery has H. Just como to light In tho finding ot Important Ibsen manuscripts, written H provlous to 1804. Tho pangrs Include H a complote oplc poem of soma 20.000 H words, in which nro to bo sren Icioas H ' which ovldontly wore tho basis for H many of his lator dramas, especially, H for "I3rand," ono of his greatost plays H The manuscripts had beon left In H Home at the Scandinavian association H when Ibsen loft that cily in 1SGI. H i They wero put away and forgotton, H and when the society moved away H" they wero thon Bold with a lot of rub-Hi rub-Hi blsh. A Dane, Pontoplddoan, found H them somo years ago In an anas' ana-s' i quartan's shop and purchased thorn as H' curiosities. .Afterward ho roturnod to H Copenhagen, whero ho dlod, bequeath-H bequeath-H Ins tho manuscripts to tho Tloyal 11-H 11-H brary upon condition that thoy ho pub- llshod by Prof. Carl Larson. Ibson's H illness provonted Larson from consult-M' consult-M' ing with him, nnd it Is only now after the dramatist's death, that permission H from his heirs has been secured. |