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accounted for the local activity. This may be so, 

 but at least it remains true that in Copenhagen a 

 very small portion of the twenty-four hours appears 

 to be devoted to repose. 



Except in certain cities in the United States where 

 there is no repose at all, I can remember none that I 

 have visited in the world where the noise is more con- 

 tinuous at night and begins earlier in the morning 

 than it does in the central part of Copenhagen. 



Of the public institutions that I saw there, 

 excepting those connected with agriculture and educa- 

 tion, the museums appealed to me most, especially 

 that which is called the National Museum. Here the 

 housing of the collections struck me as inadequate 

 and the lighting of some of the rooms as insufficient. 

 But of those collections themselves, especially such 

 of them as deal with prehistoric times, I can only 

 say that I have never seen anything finer, and that 

 their arrangement is beyond all praise. 



One of the first visits that I paid in Copenhagen 

 was to His Excellency Mr. Anders Nielsen, the 

 Minister of Agriculture, to whom I had an intro- 

 duction from the English Board of Agriculture. Mr. 

 Nielsen, I may take this opportunity to say, is, I was 

 informed, a gentleman who by his own ability has 

 raised himself to his present high position. Indeed 

 it is said that he began life as a thatcher. 



In my interview with Mr. Nielsen, our conversa- 

 tion turned on the subject of the State small-holders. 

 I told him that the principal object of my visit to 

 Denmark was to ascertain what measure of success 

 had attended the movement which had resulted in the 

 creation of this class. I explained further that some- 



