The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission

154 DENMARK fully sure to be helped on; and as a matter of fact the simple overgrown stripling happened almost from the beginning to knock at the right doors. He was helped on; he got support and training. Having written a great deal of poems, plays and novels, of which only a small number are of real value, he found in his Fairy tales his domain proper that brought home to him that glory of being a great man he had been aiming at since his boyhood. Like the ugly duckling in his talc of that name he was »pinched« and »hacked« and »bitten, shoved and ridiculed«, but at last the genius broke through. The wabbling gait of the clumsy, gray duckling was changed into a lofty-swan’s flight. The Swineherd, The Night- ingale, The Sweethearts, and whatever their names arc, have properly been called »Iliads in a nutshell«; they are liked by everybody, amusing children as highly as they captivate grown-up people. They have been translated into nearly all languages, and are known in Europe, America and Asia. No Danish poet has attained a world-wide fame like H. C. An- dersen. ❖ But Denmark owns other artists than those of the plastic and graphic arts. In the province of music as well it has bred sons whose fame has reached far beyond its boundaries; and here we shall especially name N. V. Gade (1817—1890). Through the form of art he has created, the dramatic concert music, he won general and strong sympathy. A fresh national vein, sprung from the popular songs of the North, joined in him a deep general musical stream, and both sides of his rich talent have revealed themselves with brilliancy in his poems in music, as may be seen by comparing Elver-