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Besides the two above named, these modern plays of Bjoernson are, with their dates, the following: "The King" , "Leonarda" , "The New System" , "A Glove" , "Beyond the Strength I." , "Geography and Love" , "Beyond the Strength II." , "Paul Lange and Tora Parsberg" , "Laboremus" , and "At Storhove" . Since the cessation of Ibsen's activity, Bjoernson has outrun him in the race, adding "Daglannet" , and "When the New Wine Blooms" to the list above given.

October 14, 1869. Yesterday, Wednesday, death of Sainte-Beuve. What a loss! October 16, 1869. Laboremus seems to have been the motto of Sainte-Beuve, as it was that of Septimius Severus. He died in harness, and up to the evening before his last day he still wrote, overcoming the sufferings of the body by the energy of the mind.

And herein no man hath given a better rule, than this of Seneca; "Conscientiæ satisfaciamus: nihil in famam laboremus, sequatur vel mala, dum bene merearis." "Let us satisfy our own consciences, and not trouble ourselves with fame: be it never so ill, it is to be despised so we deserve well."

And this exhortation to work, which recurs so often in the first letters of his youth, was to be the last word of the last volume which so splendidly terminates the incomparable series of his "Souvenirs": "Laboremus."

After these plays came "Laboremus" and "At Storhove," both concerned with substantially the same theme, which is that of the malign influence exerted by an evil-minded and reckless woman upon the lives of others. From a different point of view, we may say that the subject of these plays is the consecration of the home.

He pronounced the word "science" with emotion, and finished his speech by the Latin exclamation, laboremus! which he instantly translated into Russian. Kolia, with a glass in his hand, went over to thank his father and to be kissed by the others. Nejdanov exchanged glances with Mariana again... They no doubt felt the same, but they did not speak to each other.