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THE AMERICAN IN
HOLLAND
SENTIMENTAL RAMBLES IN THE
ELEVEN PROVINCES OF
THE NETHERLANDS
BY
WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS, L. H. D.
MEMBER OF THE NETHERLANDISH SOCIETY OF LETTERS IN LEYDEN
1899.
In Memoriam
___
KATHARINE LYRA
† DECEMBER 9, 1898
ZENITH STAR IN THE HEAVEN OF MEMORY
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| HOLLAND IN 1869. | ||
| I. | Down the Rhine into Holland | |
| NORTH HOLLAND. | ||
| II. | In Holland With a Japanese | |
| III. | Amsterdam as Brain Stimulant | |
| IV. | The Floral Capital of Europe | |
| V. | A Sentimental Trip to Bloemendaal | |
| VI. | In the Egmont Country | |
| VII. | Charming Little Zaandijk | |
| FRIESLAND. | ||
| VIII. | Lion City of the North | |
| IX. | Quaint Hindeloopen | |
| X. | Franeker, Sneek, and American Precedents | |
| XI. | Dokkum and our Pagan Forbears | |
| GRONINGEN. | ||
| XII. | Groningen: Province and City | |
| XIII. | Stories told by Relics and Arms | |
| DRENTHE. | ||
| XIV. | Drenthe Heaths and Giants' Graves | |
| XV. | The Turf-Yard of the Kingdom | |
| XVI. | Alone to Coevoorden | |
| OVER-IJSSEL. | ||
| XVII. | Over-Ijssel: Steenwijk and Kampen | |
| XVIII. | Zwolle and Thomas a Kempis | |
| XIX. | The Glories of Deventer | |
| GELDERLAND. | ||
| XX. | Glorious Arnhem | |
| XXI. | The American Artist in Holland | |
| XXII. | From Harderwijk to Het Loo | |
| UTRECHT. | ||
| XXIII. | Utrecht: Province and City | |
| XXIV. | By the Storied Rhine | |
| NORTH BRABANT. | ||
| XXV. | In the Old Generality: North Brabant | |
| LIMBURG. | ||
| XXVI. | The Valley of the Upper Maas | |
| XXVII. | Maastricht and Roermond | |
| ZEALAND. | ||
| XXVIII. | Middelburg, the Home of Freedom | |
| XXIX. | Flushing and Manhattan | |
| XXX. | The Little City of Goes | |
| SOUTH HOLLAND. | ||
| XXXI. | South Holland | |
| XXXII. | Rotterdam | |
| XXXIII. | Gouda, Oudewater, and Woerden | |
| XXXIV. | The City of Grotius and Orange | |
| XXXV. | The Count's Hedge | |
| XXXVI. | Classic Leyden | |
| THE INAUGURATION OF QUEEN WILHELMINA. | ||
| XXXVII. | Queen's Month | |
| XXXVIII. | The Joyous Entry | |
| XXXIX. | The Royal Inauguration | |
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