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A MAP OF DENMARK 



Denmark is almost exactly twice the size of the State of Massachusetts. Four-fifths of 

 its area is productive, yielding crops of wheat, rye, barley, oats, potatoes, and garden produce. 

 More than 15,000 vessels are engaged in the Danish fisheries. 



destructive to the foundation of a fairly 

 conservative social system. They were 

 deeply disappointed to discover that he 

 was neither in sympathy with commu- 

 nism, destructive socialism, spoilation of 

 the well-to-do for the benefit of the idle, 

 nor with any of those extremely "ad- 

 vanced ideas" which have adherents in 

 Denmark, and in every other Continental 

 country, and which are attracting the 

 thoughtless in our country and in England, 



On one occasion a young man of talent, 

 the president of a small and very "ad- 

 vanced'' literary club, came to see me at 

 the legation. He announced that he and 

 his coterie were about to publish several 

 small volumes celebrating certain distin- 

 guished women of the modern world. 

 He himself had spent several weeks in 

 the United States and intended to write 

 about an American woman, and, as I had 

 been sympathetic with the young author, 



