SMALL-HOLDINGS AT HILLEROD 



On another day I visited the little town of Hillerod, 

 which is better known as Frederiksborg, from the castle 

 of that name. The interior of this castle was burnt 

 out in 1859, and very well restored by public subscrip- 

 tion at a cost of about 40,000. It is an extremely 

 interesting building with many spires, situated on an 

 island, or rather on three islands, in the midst of a 

 lake. The interior also is fine, though some of the 

 great chambers are rather too gorgeous for my taste, 

 and in the galleries are many interesting pictures and 

 some good specimens of old furniture. The gardens 

 that lie behind the castle are very beautiful in their way 

 with their avenues of ancient limes and clipped yews. 



At Hillerod I had the advantage of talking over 

 the State small-holdings question with Mr. Holger 

 Bernild, the editor of a local paper who was kindly 

 conducting me to see some farms in the neighbourhood. 

 Mr. Bernild, I should state, to me seemed to be what 

 we should call an advanced Radical in politics, and his 

 opinions are therefore of interest as representing that 

 point of view. 



He said that he thought the State small-holding 

 scheme a good one, although it was not well carried 

 out. The applications were so many that the price of 

 property was forced up, with the result that often the 

 purchaser had to content himself with inferior land, 

 which was all that he could afford to buy under the 

 provisions of the Act. Thus in that district the State 



