Copenhagen

T H R SURROUND INGS OF COPENHAGEN.

If you have left the train at Holte, you have only a couple of m inutes’ walk, past the new hotel on the "Naess", dow n to the shore of the lake. From there you shou ld take a boat across to Fiskebæksbro, and to Farum sø — one of the gem s su rro u n d in g the sapphire. On y o u r way back to C op enh ag en , you o u g h t to walk southw ards th ro u g h the forest, along the shores of the Farum Sø and the Furesø. This will b rin g you back to F rederiksdal, and thence you go on to the little Bagsværsø th at lies alm ost hidden und e r high banks covered w ith m ighty beeches. The traveller can find the Furesø now here else in the world. O th er lakes may have a beauty of their own, often m ore im ­ posing, bu t the beauty of the Furesø and its com panions, that quiet peaceful beauty — the beauty of the hum an eye — you will see now here bu t in Denmark. L. C. Nielsen. FREDERIKSBORG CASTLE. There is, to Danish ears, a quite peculiar rin g abou t the nam e of this fine castle, which, distant only a few miles from the capital, raises its high towers above the green forests and sm iling lakes of North Zealand. Many historical rem iniscences, both b righ t and gloomy, are b o und up w ith it.

TH E LAKE OF FURE

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