The Danish Folk-Dances have the freshness, simplicity and appealing charm that is common to all real folk-dances and folk-songs. The dances contained in this volume are real folk-dances of Denmark which were collected, described and published by the Danish Society for the Promotion of Folk-Dancing, who have done me the honor of authorizing my translation of their work. The idea of forming a Folk-Dance Society in Denmark grew out of a demonstration of Swedish folk-dances given in Copenhagen in 1899 by the Swedish Society Philochoros, and it was Swedish folk-dancing that was first taken up there. Later, however, in 1901, the Danish Society for the Promotion of Folk-Dancing was organized and the work of collecting the folk-dances, music and costumes of Denmark was begun. This was carried on with some financial aid from the government and resulted in the accumulation of a store of valuable material. The descriptions of the dances were written out and the music arranged by committees and later were published by the Society.