Through Scandinavia to Moscow

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Edwards William Seymour. Through Scandinavia to Moscow

I. London to Denmark Across the North Sea

II. Esbjerg – Across Jutland, Funen and Zealand, the Little Belt and the Big Belt to Copenhagen – Friends Met along the Way

III. Copenhagen, a Quaint and Ancient City

IV. Elsinore and Kronborg – An Evening Dinner Party

V. Across the Sund to Sweden and Incidents of Travel to Kristiania

VI. A Day Upon the Rand Fjord and Along the Etna Elv – To Frydenlund – Ole Mon Our Driver

VII. A Drive Along the Baegna Elv – the Aurdals Vand and Many More to Skogstad

VIII. Over the Height of Land – A Wonderful Ride Down the Laera Dal to the Sogne Fjord

IX. A Day Upon the Sogne Fjord

X. From Stalheim to Eida – The Waterfall of Skjerve Fos – The Mighty Hardanger Fjord

XI. The Buarbrae and Folgefonden Glaciers – Cataracts and Mountain Tarns – Odda to Horre

XII. Over the Lonely Haukeli Fjeld – Witches and Pixies, and Maidens Milking Goats

XIII. Descending from the Fjelde – The Telemarken Fjords – The Arctic Twilight

XIV. Kristiania to Stockholm – A Wedding Party – Differing Norsk and Swede

XV. Stockholm the Venice of the North – Life and Color of the Swedish Capital – Manners of the People and their King

XVI. How We Entered Russia – The Passport System – Difficult to Get Into Russia and More Difficult to Get Out

XVII. St. Petersburg – The Great Wealth of the Few – The Bitter Poverty of the Many – Conditions Similar to Those Preceding the French Revolution.2

XVIII. En Route to Moscow – Under Military Guard – Suspected of Designs on Life of the Czar

XIX. Our Arrival at Moscow – Splendor and Squalor – Enlightenment and Superstition – Russia Asiatic Rather Than European

XX. The Splendid Pageant of the Russian Mass – The Separateness of Russian Religious Feeling From Modern Thought – Russia Mediaeval and Pagan

XXI. The First Snows – Moscow to Warsaw – Fat Farm Lands and Frightful Poverty of the Mujiks Who Own them and Till them – I Recover My Passport

XXII. The Slav and the Jew – The Slav’s Envy and Jealousy of the Jew

XXIII. Across Germany and Holland to England – A Hamburg Wein Stube, the “Simple Fisher-Folk” of Maarken – Two Gulden at Den Haag

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Here we are in “Kjoebenhavn,” which word you will find it quite impossible properly to pronounce, however strenuously your tongue may try.

My letter, beginning in Esbjerg, was broken short by the necessity of sleep. We wisely remained upon the ship and took full benefit of our comfortable berths. In the morning we were up betimes, obtained a cup of coffee and a roll, and then, sending our bags and baggage to the railway station, set out afoot.

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Next to conditterie, the Copenhagener is fondest of his books and the town abounds in bookshops, big and little. Every Dane reads and writes his native tongue, and among the educated, English and French and German are generally understood. In the book stores I visited I was always addressed in English, and found French, German and English and even American books upon the shelves; and more newspapers and magazines are published in Copenhagen, a Danish friend declares, than in any other city in Europe of its size. The Danes have, too, a widely established system of free circulating libraries and book clubs, which extend throughout the countryside of Zealand and Funen and Jutland, as well as in the towns, while Copenhagen is supplied also from the extensive collections of the University and Royal Libraries.

The public schools and the University we did not see, for the season was the vacation interval, and the teachers, professors and students were all dispersed. But the schools and University of Copenhagen are modernly equipped. The Dane is intelligent above all else, and he has always paid great heed to the adequate education of his race. Indeed, Copenhagen was the first city in Europe to establish real public schools, opening them in every parish more than three hundred years ago.

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