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numerous sections of the larger work provide a more integral and
varied picture of Danish civilization."')
Finally, there is the large volume af pictures from Denmark,
which is intended to form a pictorial supplement to the text
books and the above-mentioned larger work. The difficulty of
taking photographs in certain parts of the country under wartime
conditions has placed considerable obstacles in the way, but sec-
tions of the work are already finished. It aims at giving a many-
sided impression of what modern Denmark looks like, and it
is intended to keep it up to date by the frequent issue of new
editions.
The technical apparatus comprises a Danish library for foreign
use, grammophone records in the Danish language, collections of
documentary lantern slides and short films, grammophone music
records, and collections of photographs.
The library for foreign use comprises about 500 works, ag-
gregating about 1000 volumes. The object of the Society is to
establish a nucleus which will form one of the principal parts of
the equipment of its agents. The further increase of the library,
and the type and scope of the additions with which it will be sup-
plemented, must depend on the special interests which connect
the country where it is to be used with Denmark. The above-
mentioned 500 works comprise a number of indispensable hand-
books and works of reference. In general, the reference library
deals with the following subjects: the geography and people of
Denmark, Danish trade and industry, legislation and the admini-
stration of justice, civics, political economy, politics, schools, folk-
lore, science, art, history, philology, literary history, and fiction.
The present goal of the Society is to provide the nuclei of 24
such libraries for the use of its agents. The organization of the
libraries is in the charge of the Technical Sub-Committee for
Providing Libraries for Foreign Use, which is assisted by a special
consultative board.
For the teaching of Danish abroad, the Society is preparing
a number of Danish grammophone records, which should prove
an effective means of helping pupils of foreign schools and other
institutes of public instruction to acquire a practical working
knowledge of present-day Danish. These records comprise three
*) In a future number of »Le Nord« this work will be made the subject
of a more detailed account.