Things Seen in Holland
THINGS SEEN IN HOLLAND
WEST OF DORDRECHT.
South Hollanders delivering milk, and knitting. In Holland the dog is employed as a draught animal, and not merely as a domestic pet.
THINGS SEEN IN HOLLAND
BY
CHARLES E. ROCHE
WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
SEELEY, SERVICE & CO. LIMITED
38 Great Russell Street
1912
PREFACE
MY aim in the following pages has been to convey to my readers some of the enjoyment and interest which I have experienced while rambling through the picturesque cities of Holland, its pleasant villages, and its quaint waterways; and also some of my own admiration for a people so famous in history, in enterprise, and in Art.
Thanks are due from me to my friends Mr. Henry Perrin, for many photographs; Heer Adolf Le Comte, Heer W. L. Bruckman, and Mr. Norman H. Hardy, for sketches; and, lastly, to Mr. David S. Meldrum, the author of “Holland and the Hollanders.”
CHARLES E. ROCHE.
Chelsea,
July, 1909.
PAGES
Fighting the Waters—Characteristics of Three Great Cities—Attractions of Provincial Towns |
13-75 |
LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY
The Love of Tobacco—Eating and Drinking—Clubs and Country Residences |
76-100 |
THE QUEEN AND HER PEOPLE
Costume—Festivals—Games—Golf of Dutch Origin |
101-138 |
HOLLAND'S ARTISTIC SIDE
Art, Past and Present—Museums—"The Spaander"—Churches—Universities |
139-170 |
HISTORY AND LANGUAGE
The House of Orange—National Heroes—Peculiarities of the Language—The Dutch in America—Spanish Vestiges |
171-214 |
ON MANY SUBJECTS
Trade—Cheese—Diamond-cutting—Bulbs—Peat—Pottery—Dutch Artists in England—Army and Navy—Standard Time |
217-244 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
West of Dordrecht |
Frontispiece |
A “Polder” Scene |
To face page 14 |
Characteristic Canal Scene |
''20 |
Knitting and Basking |
''24 |
A Back Street in Volendam |
''28 |
On the Schie |
''34 |
Canal Scene in Amsterdam |
''38 |
A “Street” in Amsterdam |
''44 |
The Nieuwe Markt of Amsterdam |
''48 |
A General View of Amsterdam |
''52 |
A Group of Windmills |
''58 |
Brielle's Stadhuis |
''62 |
In the Island of Walcheren |
''67 |
Utrecht's Cathedral Tower |
''68 |
The Haven of Volendam |
''71 |
Old Dutch Houses |
''72 |
Zaandam, near Amsterdam |
''78 |
A Dutch Milkman |
''84 |
At the Hague |
''90 |
The Binnenhof |
''96 |
Nijmegen's Market-Place |
''102 |
A Goes Milkcart |
''108 |
In Zuid Beveland |
''112 |
Ancient Mariners |
''118 |
“Three Little Maids are We” |
''122 |
The Frozen Zuider Zee |
''126 |
Young Holland |
''130 |
Fishermen's Winter Work |
''134 |
Young Volendammers Skating |
''140 |
Posing for a Photograph |
''144 |
In Winter Time |
''148 |
A Chat on the Dike |
''152 |
The Nieuwe Kerk at Delft |
''156 |
Delft's Market-Place |
''162 |
Delft's Town Hall |
''166 |
Back from Fishing |
''172 |
Alkmaar's Wharves |
''176 |
In a Shipping Quarter |
''182 |
Alkmaar |
''186 |
On the Fringe of the Dike |
''190 |
Off the Island of Marken |
''194 |
On the Way to Edam |
''198 |
Drawbridge at Edam |
''202 |
Hoorn's Famed Water Tower |
''208 |
In Medieval Hoorn |
''214 |
The Harbour of Marken |
''218 |
The Young Knitter |
''222 |
Katwijk-aan-Zee |
''228 |
A Shady Avenue |
''234 |
Unloading Peat |
''238 |