I wish to express grateful acknowledgment to Hr. Georg Beck, Consul for Denmark in Chicago; also to Mr. Haakon Arntz, and to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Andersen, for generous information given in regard to the manners and customs of the Danish people.

Luna May Innes.

Chicago, February, 1912.

Contents

CHAPTERPAGE
Preface[vii]
I.The Distinguished Visitor[1]
II.Copenhagen[22]
III."Hurrah for King Frederik!"[48]
IV.Up the Sound to Hamlet's Castle[59]
V."Fairy-tale" Castles and Palaces[73]
VI.The Legend of the Sacred "Dannebrog"[82]
VII.The Story of the Danish "Ahlhede"[100]
VIII.Skagen[117]
IX.A Danish Peasant Wedding[134]
X.Jul-tide at Grandmother Ingemann's[144]

List of Illustrations