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HJALMAR HJORTH (boi'e-sen), an American novelist, born at Frederiksvärn, Norway, Sept. 23, , Sept. 23 , 1848. After completing his university studies at Christiania, he came to the United States in 1869 and was editor of a Norwegian journal in Chicago. He returned to Europe in 1872 and studied Germanic Philology at Leipsic two years; then, returning to this country, he was Professor of German in Cornell University, and then of Germanic Languages and Literature in Columbia College till his death. His story of Norwegian life, "Gunnar" (1873), and his "Idyls of Norway and Other Poems" (1883), show fine imagination. He also wrote "Tales from Two Hemispheres" (1875) ; "A (1875); “A Norseman's Pilgrimage," "Ilka on the BOYLE Hilltop, and Other Stories," "A Daughter of the Philistines." He died in New York, Oct. 4, 1895.