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MR. A. W. FLUX, M.A., ON CITY GOVERNMENT AND

one receives a similar greeting from the conductor, and, if one is not a boor, one returns it as promptly as to an equal. In entering a shop the assistant at the counter is also entitled to a similar sign of courtesy, and in many shops the hat is not replaced on the head before the door is passed on the way out. It may be a mere form, a habit with no meaning, but even the form of courtesy between people in different ranks of life has advantages. The poor have, or believe they have, quite enough of occasions for thinking hard thoughts of the rich. It is difficult to judge of such a matter, but I hardly think the gulf separating the extremes of society is so deep in Deumark as in England. Incomes on the whole are smaller there than here, if measured in money. I should hesitate to say that they were smaller as measured in the necessaries and comforts, and I think that I might add the luxuries, of life. The poor are not poorer tlmn here, while, thou'gh. there are rich people enough, the parade of wealth is less notable there. These, however, are generalities, alfeeting the country of which Copenhagen is the Capital as muoh as that city itself. But the faet tha,t Copenhagen is the Capital of a country is an important feature in its life, and has exerted special influences on the development of its institutions. As the Capital and seat of Government it draws to itself the leading men of the country, and is naturally also the centre of the intellectual life of the nation. These, and connected facts, make it not a little mis- leading to compare even larger provincial cities with the Danish or any other Capital. The Danish Capital is, too, relatively to the country whose metropolis it is, a large Capital. The city itself comprises about one-sixth of the country’s inhabitants; the city and its immediate suburbs may be taken to contain very little short of one-fifth of the population of Denmark. The only case which closely approaches it is that of London. The County of London contains about one-seventh of the population of England and Wales, only about one-ninth of that of the United Kingdom; while, taking Greater London at six millions of inhabitants, it fails short of one-fifth of the popu­