This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...Sche'veningue, The Moniteur des Bn ins, and so forth; and the sun being up, there is a choice of four amusements. One of these is a trip in the car to the Hague, to gaze once more on Paul Potter's beautiful ' Jonge Stier'--i.e. bull-calf, not bull, as Englishmen ridiculously call it--and the marvellous 'Lesson ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...Sche'veningue, The Moniteur des Bn ins, and so forth; and the sun being up, there is a choice of four amusements. One of these is a trip in the car to the Hague, to gaze once more on Paul Potter's beautiful ' Jonge Stier'--i.e. bull-calf, not bull, as Englishmen ridiculously call it--and the marvellous 'Lesson in Anatomy, ' by Kembrandt. These, however, are only two among a thousand pictures worth seeing in the public and private collections at the Hague. The second sport is to wander over the sandhills, till one is as tired as with walking over soft snow at a steep elevation. It is curious to note how quickly all sense of locality is lost among the dunes. One is so like the other that, like our South Downs--the hills, not the sheep--they bewilder the pedestrian consumetlly. There is everywhere the same loose sand, the same tufts of harsh grass--which bears the same relation to ordinary herbage that a Chinaman's back hair does to that of a blonde Madchen--the same sky, the same tufts of wild thyme. The sea is completely shut from view, and the only sign of life is in the multitudinous butterflies, and a rabbit ever and anon starting up and making for his burrow. The third amusement is to walk into the village of Scheveningen, past the boats and their attendant fisher-folk. Without doubt the village is interesting in its way, and the costumes of the natives are droll. Dutch fishermen love not blue in their raiment, and rejoice to clothe themselves from head to foot in a kind of thick duffel, absolutely black in hue, giving them the air of sweeps who have run away to sea. Scheveningen damsels array themselves like unto Solomon in his glory, so far as their lights will enable them. Eschewing the adhesive raiment beloved by Clara Veer Vander Veer, the..
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