DENMARK 



Villa Hvidore 



THOSE OF US who have been in Denmark, 

 who remember Lord Nelson's letter, lying 

 in the archives of the Foreign Office at 

 Copenhagen addressed to the " Brothers of 

 Englishmen, the Danes," and have seen the 

 sailing ships on its blue waters, the sturdy 

 fisherfolk, worthy descendants of their Viking 

 ancestors, and, at the other end of the scale, the 

 members of the reigning house, carrying on 

 with gracious dignity the traditions of the 

 great houses of Oldenburg and Gliicksborg, 

 will rejoice that the ties between the two 

 countries have in the last century been more 

 firmly knit together. The connexion between 

 them, dating from the time of Canute the Great, 

 may be said to have reached its culminating 

 point when the Sea-King's fair daughter came 



