The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-03

COPENHAGEN, July Ia, 1868. .
To the Editor Of the Press: ... /
We left Paris on the first of July, not wait
ing for the great celebration of the Fourth in
that gay city; but bound northward on rap
id summer tour. We had arranged To meet
another party at Hamburg, to say goodbye to
some friends who were to take passage on the
Germania for the United States. On the way,
of course, we stopped at Cologne to look at the
Cathedral, and buy cologne water at head
quarters, and afterward at the Hanover rail-
way station we dined daintily without think
ing "too seriously, of King Georges expert
ences.
A few hours after our arrival at Hamburg
our friends c2me with the baby, offspring of
Yankee and Norwegian blood; ard the follow
ing day being the glorious Fourth, we drank
in sparkling champagne the usual patriotic
toasts, adding to them, with great earnestness
The Baby.
Hamburg, as all the world knows has the
most extensive business relations with every
branch of the human family, and as they al
low goods to enter duty-tree many nice things
can be bought rather reasonably.
We visited the Bourse with its crowd of ea-
| ger merchants and stock-gamblers; the Botan-
ical and Geological gardens, among the first
in Europe, and the Market gay with peasant
| men and women in the oldest of costumes
| The old female costume of Friesland is sing
| gularly stiff and fantastic. The straw hat has
rim something like an inverted curved ba.
| sin, and through the crown band of black
cambria passes to appear below in the back o.
the neck in huge bow with long crimped
bands. The skirt of the dress is short, and be.
low the waist it is gathered in smartly around
the form as if by hoops or whaleb me; the legs
are dressed in red wooden. All the flower girls
wore this costume.
The suburbs of Hamburg rejoice in most
beautiful villas and country houses and for the
| first time L saw homes that looked like Massa.
chusetts-spacous lawns, magnificent trees
similar shrubbery reminding me of places
around Boston. Many OF the Houses hat
| French roofs, all looked comfortable and mos
were elegant.
After seeing our friends off we left HAMBURG
on the 9Th of July. Taking the cars at quar-
ter before ten in the evening we passed owe
an unnteresting tract of land, and at abou
one went ON board at Kiel the little steamer
Fyen, which carried us safely over the Balti,
to Kors0r little town in Denmark. Th,
night was of the loveliest, the moon shining
with unstinted effulgence over sea calm as
sleeping infancy.
From Korsor to Copenhagen is railway
ride of about two hours. This city has spen
did commercial site. Its first appearance is un
prepossessing, the Ied-tiled roofs and absenc,
of snowy architecture giving it a hard look. 1t
prosperity is on the increase, and its inhabi
tants number nearly two hundred thousand
1t is only after a residence of some days thai
you begin to enjoy Copenhagen and nd ou
its varied natural, artistic, and historical ad
| vantages.
Thorwaldsen's Museum is enclosed in
building of a mixed Grecian and Etruscal
architecture, a sort of huge mausoleum, for il
the centre of the courtyard of the Mausoleun
rest the mortal remains of the mighty master
| His body was deposited here according to hi
request He gave by will to his native cit
his works of art, and collection of anti
quties that his long residence in Rome CAV
him happy opportunities to make, his books
and the larger part of his personal effects
One Of his last unfinished works, bust o
Luther, is in the museum enclosed in glass
| When the great man came home in September
1888 to pass his declining days on his native sol
the Danes received him with wild enthusiasm
He died suddenly at the theatre in Copenha
gen of apoplexy, on the twenty-fourth OF Marc
1874. The Danes are very proud and happy in hi
fame, why should they not be OF a genius S
wonderfully fertile and noble.
We had hardly been an hour in the city be
fore some of our party We're invited by a yer!
Christian jew, M. Melchoir, a Ccpenhagel
banker, to dine at his country-place to NEE
Hans Christian Andersen The dlnner-part,
was in honor of the marriage OF popula
Danish painter. Andersen read in Danisl
several of his little stories and one in manu-
script which he has written for America. !
was about little boy who building house Q
cards suddenly found the kings. queens, an
knaves, etc, come out in very person full {
chat as an egg is of meat. But l must nc
injure the sale of the book nor forestall th