HALF-A-CENTURY ago when the Princess Alexandra came, a Sea King's daughter, to live among us, the Laureate said that, on that day, we had all become Danes at heart. The visit of the King and Queen of Denmark to our shores during the past week has again awakened in us the sentiment of whole-hearted friendship towards the nation which gave us our Queen-Mother. According to its wont, the Corporation of London performed, on behalf of the citizens of the capital, the duties of hospitality to their Majesties, the Danish King and Queen, whom they entertained at the Guildhall on Tuesday. The Lord Mayor expressed the hope that the result of their Majesties' visit might be to draw still closer the bonds of cordial fellowship and commercial union between the Kingdom of Denmark and the British Empire. The earlier Vikings left their impress on this country, which still survives in the language and in place-names. The intercourse their descendants hold with us in the way of trade and commerce is to be preferred to those ancient raids and the costly process they entailed upon us of buying off the Danes. Nowadays they supply our markets with food, and the peaceful trader who brings it to our markets is a more agreeable, though a less picturesque, person than the Viking raider of other days.