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Show Proud of His Norwegian Birth. Edward Grieg, the Norwegian composer, com-poser, dislikes the uso of tho word "Scandinavian" as applied to him. Recently Re-cently thero appeared In an English monthly magazlno an artlclo entitled "Grieg, the Scandinavian Composer." Grieg, whon he saw it, sent a telo-gram telo-gram to a friend In London requesting him to seo tho editor and explain that ho wns not n Scandinavian but a Norwegian. Nor-wegian. It Is an Interesting clrcum-stanco clrcum-stanco that but for tho Jacohlto troubles trou-bles ho might havo been a Scotsman. His ancestors, tho Grelgs, emigrated from Scotland after tho affair of 1745 and Bottled In Norwnj-, |