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Asgrimur Jonsson, foremost painter of Iceland, has been pensioned by the Althing (Icelandic Parliament) to allow him to continue his work unhampered. Six of his paintings hang in the Legislative Assembly Hall. The Government is assisting ten other painters to study in Denmark and other Continental art centers. The Iceland painters are but slightly touched by modernism; their subjects deal largely with the wild snow and ice-scapes of their native land...
Final reports for the past fiscal year are not yet in, but preliminary reports indicate that about 330,000 immigrants arrived, and all nations apparently filled their quotas except Danzig, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Esthonia?and all of these except Esthonia filled over two-thirds of their quotas. The great difference between the possible 357,000 arrivals and the actual 330,000 arrivals was caused by the unfilled German quota. Germany sent only 43,000 immigrants, although her quota...
...interesting document than Viscount Bryce's posthumously published "Memories of Travel." As the title would suggest, the book is a series of essays or sketches describing some of the places visited by the author during his long and busy life. Ranging from the account of a youthful adventure in Iceland, written in 1872, to a bird's-eye view of "The Scenery of America" as gained in his last visit to this country in 1921, the book not only gives us delightful descriptions of peoples and places, but also traces Viscount Bryce's development as a writer...
...Iceland in 1909 passed a law prohibiting alcoholic liquors. This was recently suspended for one year because Spain declined to buy the fish which is Iceland's chief export, unless that country would reciprocate by buying wine...
...more than the new constitution gives. An oath of allegiance to the King is required of every member of the new Parliament, but that is a form more than anything else and ought not to stick for long in the Irish throat. The Crown, too, retains a viceroy in Iceland, but he is governed by the wishes of the wholly Irish executive council. Except in the case of actual invasion the Irish Free State is not committed to active participation in any British war without the consent of its own Parliament. At the same time the British navy continues...