Education is very generally diffused

and the fondne for reading which prevails is attested not only by the great number of parochial and other a ociations for the purpose of one works in the various ranches of literature and _ lending them out among the members, but also by the number of books which individuals in the humblest walks of life, both in town, and country, manage to collect -for their own private use. The Danish is a Teutonic or Germanic lanpee. and as such is related to the wedish, Norwegian, German, Dutch, and English. By a charter finally ped by the king and diet, June 5, 1849, it is declared that the executive power is in the king alone, the legislative in the king and diet jointly. The person of the king is inviolable, but he rules by a responsible ministry. The diet consists of the Lands thing and the Volkething —the former a kind of senate or upper house, and the latter a house of representatives. The Lands thing | consists of 66 members, of whom 12 are | nominated for life by the crown, and the rest elected indirectly by the people for the period of eight years. The utheran is the established religion, and the king is required by law to be a member of that denomination; but unlimited toleration is extended. to every sect, including the Jews, who. by a decree of March 29, 1814, were | admitted to an equal participation of | civil rights, in regard to the exercise of trades, ete., with the other subjects of ‘the State; but, though electors, they cannot themselves be elected_as representatives of any cla . The bishops of the church are nominated by the crown. The army of Denmark in 1900 had a yond strength of fully 824 officers and 8,945 men, and the total war strength is fully 60,000 men, According to a law pa ed in 1867 the army consists of all the able-bodied youu men of the kingdom who have arriv at the age of 22 years. The time of service is eight years in the regular troops and the first reserve, besides another eight years in the extra reserve. The navy contains about 18 ships from third-ela cruisers upward, the largest being the turret-ship “ Heligoland.” ‘King Christian IX. died Jan. 29, 1906, and was succeeded by his son, Frederick VIII. Dennewitz, a small Pru ian village in the circle of Potsdam, prove ince of Brandenburg, famous for the battle between the French and Pru ians, Sept. 6, 1813, in which the latter, aided toward the end by Ru ian and Swedish armies, were victorious.