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jaundiced eyes, distort or discolour every object they encounter ; and their chaotic brains give an hideous aspect to the prospect which surrounds them. To censure with justice, to commend with reason, to instruct with pleasantry, are passports to interest or win the heart, unknown to the Germans who have written on Denmark; which would be more easily understood were I to enu­ merate the volumes of travels that ap­ pear at Leipsig, fair after fair, describing countries their authors never saw. That Denmark has suffered from such unjust delineation, is most true, but with the intelligent reader, the mass of contempt falls on the impostor, who, from sinister motives thus seeks to mislead.