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iug stones, arrow-heads (as delicate as those of California Indian speci- 

 mens), and innumerable forms in bone and antlers. For its size Copen- 

 hagen is the best equipped city in the world for the ethnologist. Com- 

 mencing with archaeology, the stone age repeats the story of Stockholm, 

 with enough variety to make one glad to visit both. From the earliest 

 appearance of man in Danish territory you are able to trace him down 

 to the historic period. The objects are classified by material, form, and 

 period. The bronze age rooms are even more instructive and thought- 

 inspiring. Gold and amber are here in luxurious abundance. Even in 

 those early times seafaring Danes must have learned to scour the earth. 

 Certainly there is neither copper nor tin nor amber around these islands 

 and peninsulas. The molds in which celts, razors, reaping-hooks, dag- 

 gers and other tools were cast are made of steatite. These molds and 

 other apparatus have raised the critical question whether the xScandi- 

 navian bronze age originated on its own soil. 



Here, the iron age antedates the Christian era, but so easily does 

 iron yield itself to decay that we shall have to call it the golden age, 

 so far as good specimens are concerned. The iron age continues here 

 to the age of gunpowder, or to speak more by the Museum card, in 

 Denmark to the coup d'etat of 1606. The armor is shown in the Eoyal 

 Artillery Museum, but you can follow the stream of Danish history 

 through church relics and furniture. To complete the whole story of 

 Denmark, you have only to spend a day in the old Eosenberg palace to 

 follow the present dynasty to the reigning sovereign. Of the Ethno- 

 graphic Museum, celebrated during the whole century, it is only neces- 

 sary to say that it was the first attempt in the world to arrange museum 

 material by peoples. This collection is uniquely rich in East Green- 

 land specimens, the spoils of Captain Holm. Fifty rooms cover as many 

 natural or ethnic subjects, and hundreds of specimens are here that can 

 not be duplicated, because of the early day at which the collection began 

 to be formed. The objects of interest to the ethnologist in Hamburg 

 are to be seen in two buildings, the Kuusthalle and the Gewerbe-schule 

 Museum. The former is the art collection of the city and is really an 

 imposing building in the midst of a great forest park. The Gewerbe- 

 schule is on the order of South Kensington and- is worth visiting. The 

 gaps in European art become truly painful when the hiatus of a millen- 

 ium is pointed out by the majolica pottery following immediately the 

 later Eoman. The ethnographic collection is as poor in its installation 

 as it is rich in material. The museums of Brussels are superb in ma- 

 terial and treatment and are worthy of the distinguished men whose 

 monuments they are. The one series which makes them preeminent is 

 in the National Gallery. It was gathered from the bone-caves, which 

 have yielded such wonderful paleontological results. The specimens 

 are mounted with the greatest of care, and in the arrangement of one 

 series of cases above another the economy of space is remarkable. In 

 the Place de Hal are to be seen excellent collections of armor, antiquities 



