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Excerpt from Denmark: Its History and Topography Language, Literature, Fine-Arts, Social Life and Finance
A word as to the orthography of the proper names. It is un doubtedly most correct to allow the names of places keep the form which they bear in their own country. People are seldom so absurd as to alter names of persons. But why should not also place names be generally respected? Instead in this manner, the method in vogue is often mere caprice. Sometimes the word remains unchanged; sometimes it is only slightly modified; in other cases it is twisted out of all resemblance to the original. All this chaotic spelling should be held in check, especially where Geography is concerned. The reader ought to know what the name is in the country itself, however common such forms as Copenhagen, Funen and Elsinore may be. Where the foreign and home spelling as in the case of Schleswig and Slesvig may be equally admissible, I have naturally preferred the latter. Still, for very good reasons, I have only carried this out more or less consistently in the geographical chapter, Country and people; elsewhere the current orthographies are commonly not interfered with.
Finally it should be said that the bibliographical notes following each of the larger sections, do not lay claim to completeness. Yet it is to be hoped that they may be sufficient not only to intro duce the foreigner to Danish literature, but also to give him some idea of the copiousness of this literature.
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