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of these, facing llie riding ground, runs a piazza, which terminales on caeli side in the gateway thal opens lo llie Marble bridge. The chicf front of the palace is adorncd willi basrelief by Thorvaldscn: Minerva and Pro- mclheus, Hercules and llebe, Jupiter and Ne­ mesis, Æsculapius and Hygæa, and in llie niches on eacli side of the principal enlrance are four colossal statues: Hercules, Minerva, Æsculapius and Nemesis; the firsl by Thorvaldsen himsclf llie others by Bissen from drawings of Thor­ valdsen. As imposing as is the architeclure and wasle size of the exlerior of llie palace, as slriking is the kingly magnificience of the inlerior. The «Hall of the Kni ghts« claims our nolice above all. One hundred and twenty fcet long, forty four feet high and fifty feet broad, il is indeed a splendid hall, worthy of ils namc. The gallery at eacli end, supported by Corin- thian columns does not, however, add to ils grandeur. The Th r on c - Rooms should be seen, if nol for ils own sake, for the sake of the four great pictures by Professor Eckersbcrg, representing scenes of Danish history. In the palace is the Council-Chambcr, .and also the aparlmcnts in which bolh the I)iets hold tlicir meetings. The Chamber of the Com-