BREMEN

—(1) Free state of Ger. commonwealth, in basin of lower Weser; area, 99 sq. m.; cattle largely reared; market gardening and fishing. Pop. 295,700. (2) City of Germany, cap. of above state, a Hanseatic town on both banks of Weser (53° 5’ N., 8° 49’ B.); one of most thriving ports of Germany (in 1914, 1,416,800 tons shipping); headquarters of Norddeutscher Lloyd; jute spinning, woolen and cotton goods, shipbuilding; iron foundries, rope making, petroleum refining, distilling, brewing, and sugar refining; outport, Bremerhaven; river deeped to Bremen within recent years; great cotton market of Germany; large trade in tobacco; emigration center; World War put complete stop to trade; revolution just before tice, and workers’ and _ soldiers’ council set up; notable buildings are cathedral, town hall, church of St. money wine -cal an below town hall. Pop. 5,000. Swed. novelist; her earlier stories were of a simple, idyllic character, and were trans. into English by Mary Howitt; later she devoted her attention to the emancipation of women and to philanthropic work, and her subsequent novels were written with a view to the di emination of her ideas. E.), seaport town, mouth of Weser, Germany; large docks; free port; shipbuilding, part of free state of Bremen