Dagens Nyheter, a liberal morning paper, made a fortune for Rudolph Wall, its founder, who died a millionaire.  It is considered one of the most profitable newspaper properties in Europe.  It sells for a cent and a quarter, and has a circulation of about thirty thousand.

The Stockholm paper which imitates the American press most closely is Svenska Dagbladet, ably edited by Helmer Key, a doctor of philosophy, and C.G.  Tengwall, who is regarded as one of the best all-around newspaper men in Sweden.  It has the best class of contributors of any of the Swedish papers in a literary way, including Professor Oscar Levertin, Verner von Heidenstam, the poet, Tor Hedberg, an art and literary critic, and Ellen Key, the authoress, and the most influential woman in Sweden.  The paper has a large circulation among the thinking people of the country, and exercises a wide influence.

The official organ of the Royal Yacht Club, the Royal Jockey Club, and all representative Swedish sport clubs, is the Ny Tidning foer Idrott, which is owned by Count Clarence von Rosen, one of the grandsons of the late Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, of Philadelphia.  The count, himself the finest rider in the Swedish army, edits the horse news, while Colonel Victor Balck, the father of modern Swedish sports, and Alex.  Lindman are the editors. Ny Tidning foer Idrott has a regular correspondent in America.  Hjalmar Branting, leader of the socialists in Sweden and a member of the second chamber of parliament, is editor of Social Demokraten, the organ of his party.  Although a man of aristocratic origin, he has cast his lot with the laboring classes.  He is a man of great force of character, an able writer, an eloquent speaker, and is generally respected even by those who can not approve his views.  The circulation of his paper is almost exclusively confined to the laboring classes.

The compensation of newspaper men in Sweden is much less than in the United States.  The highest salary paid to an editor-in-chief is $4,000, while the lowest for that position is about $1,500.  Managing editors are paid from $1,200 to $2,000 a year, and ordinary reporters from $300 to $750 a year.  Contributors of fame receive special rates.  The price for news items is two and one-half cents a line.  Space writers seem to be paid more in proportion than the regular members of the staff, but the difference is more apparent than real, because of the tendency to condensation.  Articles in the Swedish papers are seldom more than half a column long.

Stockholm has several comic papers, even more in proportion to population than we have in the United States.  The most prominent are Strix, Puck, Soendags-Nisse, Kasper and Nya Nisse.  They are small and comparatively insignificant, and sell for two and one-half cents a copy.  They satirize politicians with good humor, and their cartoons are based upon current events.  There are several literary weeklies, monthlies, and other periodicals, for Swedes are great readers and, unlike the Americans, have not lost their taste for poetry.  A poet enjoys a much higher position and larger income from his writings in Sweden than at home.