DENMARK ON FIFTY DOLLARS

By Sydney A. Clark, New York, Robert MMcbride & Co., 1937. pp. 193. $1.90.

This excellent book contains not only the factual material needed by the tourist in Denmark for practical purposes, descriptions of the worthwhile sights, details about money and railroads, suggestions as to hotels and restaurants, but also an account of the country and its people written with a genuine enthusiasm for the subject, and with humor and a lightness of touch which make it much better reading than most travel books and of interest also to those not immediately contemplating a trip to Denmark.

Fifty dollars will buy about 230 Danish kroner, which should be sufficient for twelve to fourteen days, if the directions of the author are followed. Of this sum 35 kroner are to be expended for 'a general abonnement railway ticket permitting unlimited travel on the rails for eight daystake any train and stay on as long as you please; or it is still cheaper to rent a bicycle at from 5 to 10 kroner a week; lodging, meals and incidentals are budgeted at io kroner a day; a special sum of go kroner is reserved for a trip to Bornholm, and that leaves 25 kroner for extravagances.

Denmark for most people means Copenhagen, and possibly Elsinore, the city of Prince Hamlet. These are well treated here, but the tourist will be particularly grateful for the wealth of material about the less familiar places, such as Odinse, the home of Hans Christian Andersen, with an interesting sketch of that writer's life, Ribe, a Danish Rothenburg, and the island of Bornholm which is especially dear to the heart of the author.

The charm of Denmark is well expressed in a sentence quoted by Mr. Clark: "There are pine woods, and wonderful bathing beaches where every girl looks like Diana: there are hillsides where the heather grows as purple as the wilds of Clare: there are lochs and lakes where the path takes you over the hills into a, town that is mellow with age, and behind all is a feeling of an industrious race working only for peace."