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    6 lSS 2 1 he Jrubhshers Circular , 73

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    THE LAND OF DYKES AND WINDMILLS ; I Or , LIFE IN HOLLAND . With Anecdotes of Noted Persons , and Historical Incidents in connection with England . By FREDERICK SPENCER BIRD . Cr . 8 vo . pp . 332 , 12 s . 6 < £ . CHAPTER I . CHAPTER XVI . i Polders Intro — duction Windmills —Dykes — Ca — n Dn als ' ms — — Shi Inundations ps — Ward— — cleanliness Hawks — and Prosperity hawking— of Farmers the Boers ' carts —Lotteries —Lore — of Commerce Speculation mania—Trade with Japan . CHAPTER II . CffAPTER XVII . ! Building Dutch — frugality Institutions —D — e Reforming Witt--Country a wife houses —Odd — o \& Trade standing carried —English on between wool and Dutch ctoth and merchants English in of I costumes . Holland—Scotch and English pirates—A sea fight 1 hf > Deaf and CHAPTER Dumb—Doctors . III . and druggists— Amsterdam —Dutch vessels . captured in 1773—Tho bunk of fJnpers — Leyden University — Boerhaavc — Mus- CHAPTER XVIII . bchcnbroeck—Moravian colony . Education in Holland—Knowledge of Languages CHAPTER IV . —Schools—Religious toleration—Clergy—Hats ond Street scenes—Bridges—Novel precautions— foot-warmers in church—Paying for seats—Former Patch politeness—Tobacco and pipes—Tea brought piety of tho Dutch—English and Scotch churches 1 from Holland . —Jews . I | Half buried houses CHAPTER —Discomfor V . t of Dutch clean- English refugees CHAPTER in Holland XIX . —Regicides of r line??—Dwarfs and giants—Longevity—The modern Charles I . —Asylum for criminals—A bold capture ( I | drink Dutchman ing . —Eel and egg ttplis—Canal water for —Crimps and their CHAPTER victims . XX . | ; Curious stone CHAPTER carvings , and VI . legends connected paper Comparative reports—Trial absence of of prisoners crime in —A Holland gaol — victim Nows — - j i merits with them , —Erasmus and his statue—Dutch Monu- prisoners Capital punishment —Anocdoto abol of an ished encounter —Former with treatment burglars of j CHAPTER VII . at Dordrecht . ¦ j Wood carving—Orinling Gibbons—Stained-glass CHAPTER XXI . i H ! w ni indows ght at Flushing -Delft-ware . —Precautions against fire—A Winter Dutch in labourers Holland — — Penal Skating— and Sled pauper ges—Boa colonies ts saii — - ¦ ! I Do ^ s—Curiosities CHAPTER of taxation VIII — . Military service Dinner ing on -party ice — —? Smelt t . Nicholas -fishing — — Now Christmas Year ' s day — . Dutch -Tho Dutch foreign legion . CHAPTER XXII . I CHAPTER IX . Dutch painters and pictures—Inventors—The Ij Wt rothals Gratuities —Copper to sen , silver 'ants , — and Customs gold weddings at births . and mills first nowspaper in Scotland — — The Celebrated Burhuis famil persons y—Dutch whose names barley aro associa * ed with Holland—Love of music . I CHAPTFR X I custo Marriage ms among l , y ^ the proxy pntPTrT Boers — 1 in Courtsh ) North Al vt ip Holland and . wedding tho Hugo coetle of Loovestoin root CH — A The PTER . narrative XXIII . his escape from m I \ ni *» '" nt Curious r » nn « mu < l niul « matrimonial u ) Uuetion n / tfri' VjIIjvL ^ r . — t Iwo regulations , VjLx romantic , *¦ - A i lpcrcrrls Dn fell i elope — ' Th ri o - ,, ; . „ Hi TT . , storical . . , , notes . ™ V T from ^ PTVT ,, Dutch tw 7 , T "WTV i chronicles i , r , -i . — » tv Bishop . i — ^ hW who survived BurMvea twcntv twenty -flvo mo husbands husbands . Queo Willebrord . n Isabella -Kmg in E Hol . lward land— L Earl and Count of Leicester lions — ¦ I J T 1 ) C . 1 i ) i hH ! , t I ^» undertakers n drowning CHAPTER - — - Gin Customs - XII drinking . at — funerals Novel use — dam nnd Queen . Cromwell Henriet — to Mutiny Marie of — Dutch Tho A seamen moland at islanders Amsterlet 01-8 ° " ~"" tUtn ° nnd hca ( 1 * (> rnament 8 — Kermis CHAPTER XXV . I I H t h * Bo K < " rt ! at i u . , Kerm " ^^ T » s ^ - ^ -Amusements XIII . —Origin of t Downing ^ the King Hague — Charl Charles en es route II at . in Breda for exile — England — Account Secret , at interview of t his ho journ time witli ey of tni superstition « , ! T"I- Klcnnr - Dwellings ! 8 On tho of fire the -eater Boors —W -Sabots itchcraft . his restoration . CHAPTER XXVI . I zet D r 8 t ? a CHAPTER m * f " ^ —Capture XIV . of Breda—How Fairfax Reception —Banquet of Charles —Prepa II rations . at tho at Hague Schevoni —Thomas ngen—H I Hol ] and a l lving * ~ F ° o < l ^ -Fish , fisheries , nnd angling Fa —Tho rewell embarkation visit of Charles at Scheveningen to the States . —His speech I ^ ' Plandpri Pino V IretA -annl n ' t - j ! llt ' ^ And PT gftrdeners ' flowe ER XV rs— — . The Country tulip scenes mania —Presentation Pepys' account CHAPTER of of pict tho ures embarkation , XXVII & c , to . Charts of Charles II . II — . % i W-fow l ~ Afl 8 c 8 milk —Stork 8—Swans and Kivid , Burgomaster of Rotterdam—William III . — H * ¦ Anecdote of H . Ii . H . tho Prince of Wales . ^ m j Kg ^^^^ jA M ^ ONjLOW , IVIARSTOX , 8 EARLE , & RIVINGTON , Crown Buildings , 188 Flact St . ( 64 ) J

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 16, 1882, page 73, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16011882/page/73/