Holland's Artistic Side
pulpit, stained choir windows, as at Gouda, or a fine old chandelier. It may be mentioned that the choir-screen of the Cathedral of St. John is to be seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum, to which it was sold for the purpose of devoting the sum received to the inner decoration of the cathedral.
Even in the almshouses, refuges, and asylums do their residents derive benefit from the national culture of Art. Old folks, ancient mariners, and orphans are all comfortably and prettily housed, while most of the last-named wear attractive and gay costumes which do not continually remind them of their lonely condition. The Municipal Orphanage in Amsterdam contains in its regents' rooms paintings by J. Backer, Jürgen Ovens, A. de Vries, and others; while the court, with its open colonnade, is of interest. One of the sights of Amsterdam
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