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THE AMERICAN-SC AN DIN AVIAN REVIEW 
water from a distant spring 
was led tumbling in merry 
cascades through the forest, 
dashing at last through a fis¬ 
sure in the cliff. 
Up the inaccessible hill¬ 
sides steps were hewn; fields 
and sloping stretches were 
dotted with oak and beech, 
and the outlets of lake and 
marsh were formed into an 
encircling net of canals. On 
the summit of the cliff an au¬ 
tumn and winter garden of 
foreign botanical rarities was 
arranged to which all the fa¬ 
mous nurseries of the day 
paid toll. 
Liselund, or l’Elisee, as 
Calmette with characteristic 
French gallantry called his 
Lisa’s solitude, is the expres¬ 
sion of a chivalrous husband’s 
sentimental homage to his 
much admired wife. Below the old original farmhouse, a little 
stretch of meadow land was flooded and transformed into a lake. 
At the foot of this in the shelter of the slope where the canals 
have their outlet, he built in 1792, in close co-operation with one 
of the most famous architects of that time, A. J. Ivirkerup, a tiny 
pleasure palace of one story with attic and tower. The ground 
tioor contains, besides the rather large dining and entrance hall, only 
a garden room and four chambers. Light is admitted to the garden 
room through three large glass doors which open on the cov¬ 
ered loggia, over which the thatched roof hangs. An adjoining cabi¬ 
net, the monkey room, so called from a painting on a mirror of a 
monkey reaching out after a palm-leaf, is decorated with frescoes and 
woodwork. Another apartment, in which is a tester-bed ready for use, 
bears the name of the ghost chamber, thanks to a gray lady who haunts 
the spot at midnight. The decorations, the beautiful mirrors, the 
lamps suspended from the ceilings, and the white enameled furnishings 
are all of Danish workmanship, patterned after the best and most dis¬ 
tinctive examples of English cabinet-making of that day. There have 
probably been many houses in Denmark of that period which could 
compare favorably with or even excel Liselund in the purity of style 
of the decorations and in the fineness of line of the furnishings, hut 
