GRONLUND, LAURENCE (1846-1899), American so cialist, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on July 13, 1846. He graduated at the University of Copenhagen in 1865, began the study of law, removed to the United States in 1867, taught Ger man in Milwaukee, was admitted to the bar in 1869 and prac tised law in Chicago. He became a writer and lecturer on socialism and was for a time connected with the work of the Socialist Labor Party. After a period of service in the bureau of labour statistics, he returned to the lecture field, and was an editorial writer for the New York and Chicago American from 1898 until his death in New York city on Oct. 15, 1899. His principal works are: The Coming Revolution (188o) ; The Co-operative Common wealth in its Outlines (1884) ; ca Ira, or Danton in the French Revolution (1888) ; Our Destiny, the Influence of Socialism on Morals and Religion (1890) ; and The New Economy (1898) .