Soren Kierkegaard's Pilgrimage to Jutland. Edited by Arthur Dahl. (Danish
Tourist Association.) THESE extracts from Kierkegaard's diary kept during his journey to his father's old home in ..the summer of 1840 are for those who already love their Kierkegaard. They will know the awful significance in Kierkegaard's life of. the little hill on the heath near Saeding ; they will appreciate the alternations of savage irony and desperate humility and accept the motto of the journey: Nulla dies sine lacrima. To outsiders all these things will be more or less meaningless, for there is none of Kierkegaard's most striking ideas contained in these jottings ; only the peculiar and unmistak- able flavour of the man himself. The production of the book is excellent, and Ebbe Sadolin's drawings are admirably in keeping with the informality and veiled emotional intensity of Kierkegaard's diary. Our British tourist agencies might be puzzled by Kierke- gaard, but they should take note of the cultural activities of their Danish counterparts.
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