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Holland's Artistic Side
machinery, and, all in all, so complete that a careful examination of the house's contents will give one an accurate idea of how a Dutch burgher lived in centuries gone by.
A pretty conceit, written in Old Dutch, is to be found on the fly-leaf of a Bible preserved in the museum. It runs:
"
Ons leven is een Schip,
d' Weerelt is de Zee,
d' Bybel 't peylcompas,
Maer 't Hemelrijk d' Ree”;
which, translated, reads:
"
Our life is a ship,
The world is the sea,
The Bible our compass,
But Heaven is our haven.
Delft has recently founded a Rijks-Museum, known as Huis Lambert van Meerten, the curator of which is Heer A. Le Comte, who designed the façadeQ
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