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Den Danske Kirke og Episkopalkirken. 
By R. Andersen, Pastor Vor Frelsers Evange- 
lisk Lutherske Kirke, Brooklyn, N. Y., and 
Chaplain to Immigrants and Seamen. 
Publisher: The Author, 195 Ninth Street, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
This work, partially the result of more 
than twenty-five years of incessant re¬ 
searches into the interrelations and the inter¬ 
communion between Bishops, Priests, and 
Lay Members of on the one hand the Church 
of Denmark and its daughter churches in 
America and elsewhere and on the other 
hand of the Episcopal Church in England, 
America, and other parts of the .world, is a 
veritable storehouse of historic information, 
which is of interest not only to the general 
reader, but which will also be useful to authors 
looking for authoritative material of a bio¬ 
graphical, genealogical, and historical nature. 
It will be welcomed especially by those in¬ 
terested in the movements for cnurch unity, 
which characterize our epoch. They will find 
in it an earnest effort to promote a better 
understanding and a closer co-operation be¬ 
tween the two churches and their people, be¬ 
sides a large amount of historic data throwing 
light upon this important question. The author 
is well known in ecclesiastical circles as a 
very accurate historian as well as a conscien¬ 
tious and painstaking worker, and these excel¬ 
lent qualities, doubly assured by his intense 
piety to his subject, are well reflected in the 
present work as well as in the arduous labors, 
involving a vast correspondence with people 
all over the world, of more than a quarter 
century, upon which it is founded. His many 
and meritorious labors in his chosen pro¬ 
fession have received due recognition by the 
present king of Denmark, who bestowed upon 
him, in 1919, the silver medal “For Fortje- 
neste”, (For Merit), and by his predecessor 
on the throne who had previously conferred 
upon him the knighthood of the Order of the 
Dannebrog. 
A little more detail in the list of contents 
of this work, and an alphabetical index, would 
perhaps have made the wealth of material 
contained therein more readily accessible to 
the researcher. C. J. L. 
Brief Notes 
John Ericsson Honored 
The sixtieth anniversary of the battle be¬ 
tween the Monitor and the Merri7nuc f March 
9, was celebrated in New York by a ban¬ 
quet and by the unveiling of four tablets 
commemorating the work of John Ericsson 
and of his partner Cornelius H. Delamater. 
One of these was placed on the house at 
36 Beach Street where Ericsson lived and 
where he died on March 8, 1899. The other 
three were placed in locations connected 
in some way with the construction of the 
Monitor. The funds for the tablets have 
been collected by private subscription through 
the agency of the Ericsson-Delamater Tablet 
Committee representing various civic organi¬ 
zations and technical societies as well as in¬ 
dustrial concerns. 
An Octogenarian Scholar 
Vilhelm Thomsen, the Danish philologist, 
was eighty years old on January 25. He is 
one of the greatest in a country that has pro¬ 
duced many eminent philologists, scholars 
who have used their highly specialized knowl¬ 
edge to open broad vistas of historical de¬ 
velopment. Professor Thomsen, in his more 
than fifty years of productive labor, has done 
pioneer work in many fields, any one of which 
would have seemed large enough to fill a 
lifetime. His research spans over countries 
as distant and alien as Mongolia and even 
Australia. Of especial popular interest is 
his establishing once for all and beyond the 
possibility of contradiction the fact that the 
Russian Empire was founded not by the Slavs, 
but by Northern vikings from Sweden. 
Henning Berger on the New York Stage 
The Deluge by the Swedish playwright 
Henning Berger has been revived by Arthur 
Hopkins at the Plymouth Theatre and has 
had a run not often accorded foreign plays 
in New York. The scene is laid in this coun¬ 
try, in the Mississippi valley, and the play 
pictures with a mixture of humor and melo¬ 
drama a group of saloon loafers who learn 
that they are threatened with being swept 
away in the flood from a dam which has burst. 
All reform and bury old enmities only tc 
revert to their former unregenerate state when 
they learn that the dam is holding after all. 
