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P. M. Hough, B.A.

P. M. Hough, B.A.

With Thirty-Two Illustrations

Contents

  1. National Characteristics
  2. Court and Society
  3. The Professional Classes
  4. The Position of Women
  5. The Workman of the Towns
  6. The Canals and Their Population
  7. A Dutch Village
  8. The Peasant at Home
  9. Rural Customs
  10. Kermis and St. Nicholas
  11. National Amusements
  12. Music and the Theatre
  13. Schools and School Life
  14. The Universities
  15. Art and Letters
  16. The Dutch as Readers
  17. Political Life and Thought
  18. The Administration of Justice
  19. Religious Life and Thought
  20. The Army and Navy
  21. Holland Over Sea

Index

List of Illustrations

  • The Delft Gate at Rotterdam
  • Types of Zeeland Women
  • Zeeland Peasant--The Dark Type
  • A Zeeland Woman--The Dark Type
  • Dutch Fisher Girls
  • A Bridal Pair Driving Home
  • A Dutch Street Scene
  • A Sea-Going Canal
  • A Village in Dyke-Land
  • A Canal in Dordrecht
  • An Overyssel Farmhouse
  • An Overyssel Farmhouse
  • Approach to an Overyssel Farm
  • Zeeland Costume
  • Zeeland Costumes
  • An Itinerant Linen-Weaver
  • Farmhouse Interior, Showing the Linen-Press
  • Type of an Overyssel Farmhouse
  • A Farmhouse Interior, Showing the Door into the Stable
  • Farmhouse Interior, the Open Fire on the Floor
  • Palm Paschen--Begging for Eggs
  • Rommel Pot
  • A Hindeloopen Lady in National Costume
  • Rural Costume--Cap with Ruche of Fur
  • An Overyssel Peasant Woman
  • Zeeland Children in State
  • Kermis 'Hossen-Hossen--Hi-Ha!'
  • St. Nicholas Going His Rounds on December 5th
  • Skating to Church
  • Parliament House at the Hague--View From the Great Lake
  • Interior of Delftshaven Church (Where the Pilgrim Fathers Worshipped Before Leaving for New England)
  • Utrect Cathedral

Dutch Life in Town and Country

Chapter I

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