MASTER NEGA TIVE NO. 91-80412 MICROFILMED 1991 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES/NEW YORK as part of the Foundations of Western Civilization Preservation Project" Funded by the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES Reproductions may not be made without permission from Columbia University Library COPYRIGHT STATEMENT The copyright law of the United States - Title 17, United States Code ~ concerns the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material... Columbia University Library reserves the right to refuse to accept a copy order if, in its judgement, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of the copyright law. A UTHOR : THOMAS COOK LTD TITLE: TRAVELLER'S HANDBOOK FOR PLACE: LONDON DA TE : 1913 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES PRESERVATION DEPARTMENT Master Negative # BIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARCFT Original Material as Filmed - Existing Bibliographic Record r 949.5 C77 I Thonias Cook Ltd. mu' J.'' — '- J f>uux. f fraorn, L ondon, vlii, ISl p. fold. naps. 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(1414/1/14) I9I3 I" Cf-, S^A). Z/vi)j-y»/ ^/f.? COOK'S TOURIST'S HANDBOOKS. Switzerland. Price 3^. 6rf. net. With Maps and Plans. Spain. By A. F. Calvert. Price 7^. 6d. net. With Maps, Plans and Illustrations. Beig:iuni and the Ardennes. Price u. 6 p- 22 »> p- 41 JJ p- 75 pp. 85-6 CONTENTS. London to Rotterdam Rotterdam . . . London to Rosendaal Terneuzen to Selzaete and Clinge . Rosendaal to Antwerp . Rosendaal to Tilburg and Bois-le-Duc ('s Hertogenbosch) Rosendaal to Dordrecht Dordrecht Dordrecht to Arnhem or Nijmegen Dordrecht to Rotterdam Rotterdam to the Hague Delft The Hague ..... Environs of the Hague . Scheveningen .... The Hague to Levden . . ' . Leyden Leyden to Haarlem. Haarlem Haarlem to Amsterdam . Haarlem to Alkmaar Alkmaar to the Helder Alkmaar to Hoorn .... Hoorn Hoorn to Medemblik Hoorn to Enkhuizen Enkhuizen to Stavoren and Leeuwarden Hoorn to Amsterdam Amsterdam .... Excursions from Amsterdam . Amsterdam to Haarlem page 20 22 28 30 32 33 35 35 37 38 38 39 41 53 54 56 56 62 62 66 66 69 70 70 71 72 72 73 75 98 99 VI CONTENTS. Amsterdam to Utkecht . Utrecht . . . • Amsterdam to Amersfoort Utrecht to Rotterdam . Utrecht to Zwolle Zwolle to Leeuwarden . Leeuwarden to Groningen Groningen to Zwolle Zwolle to Almelo . Almelo to Deventer Deventer to Amersfoort Deventer to Zutphen and Arnhem Zutphen . . • • Arnhem . • • • Arnhem to Utrecht Arnhem to Venlo . Nijmegen . . . • Venlo to Maastricht Maasiricht to Aix-la-Chapelle Venlo to Tilburg . TiLBURG TO ROSENDAAL • Tours in Holland (from Amsterdam) Conducted Tours in Holland Tours in Holland . Festivals, Kermesses, Fetes, Fairs, etc Classified Voc vbularv (Dutch-English English-Dutch) . Index Hotels AND page 99 100 103 104 105 106 107 109 no no no III I II 112 114 114 "5 116 118 119 119 120-123 124 124-125 126 127-136 137-151 vii-viii hotels in HOLLAND. Just as Cook's International Travelling Tickets enable the Tourist to provide himself before starting with the necessary tickets for his round, and to know the exact cost of the transit portion of his tour, so Cook's Hotel Coupons enable him to estimate to within a fraction the hotel expenses of the journey. These Coupons are issued at from 7s. 6d. to 16s. a day, there being now six distinct series in operation on the Continent. The Coupons are issued bound with a booklet giving a complete list of the hotels at which they are available, and also full details of any exceptional arrangements that may be in force. Series A provides for Bedroom, Lights, and Attendance, Plain Breakfast, and Dinner at Table d'Hote, at the rate of 8s., or 10 francs, per day. Series B provides for Meat Breakfast, Dinner at Table d'Hote, Bedroom, Lights, and Attendance, at the rate of 8s. 9d., or 11 francs, per day. Series C provides for Bedroom, lights, and Attendance, Plain Breakfast, Lunch at Table d'Hote (where customary), and Dinner at Table d'Hote, at the rate of lOs. 6d., or 13 francs, per day. Series V and W also provide for full board, but at a superior class of hotel to that of Series C. The rate for V is 168., or 20 francs, and for W 12s., or 15 francs, per day. Series R also provides for full board, but at Hotels of the Second Class, at 7s. 6d. per day. Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son are also able to quote En Pension terms for an extended stay in one place. Rates can be furnished for accommodation in any class of hotel, from single bedrooms to suites of apartments, on any floor, with whatever aspect may be desired. The arrangements include not only hotels of every grade, but also the less pretentious, though comfortable " pension." To be able, before leaving home, to select and reserve the particular accommoda- tion desired, is an advantage which needs no emphasising. It is necessary, however, that as long notice as possible be given. For further details see special four-page pamphlet, obtainable gratis at any of Thos. Cook & Son's OflSces at home or abroad. Series A, B and C. Alkmaar— Hdtel de Toelast Amsterdam— H6tel Pays-Bas Apeldoorn — Orange Park Hotel Arnhem— H6tel des Pays-Bas Baarn — Hotel Zeiler Bloemendaal— Hotel Duin en Daal Bois-LE-DUC (see 'sHertogenbosch) Breda— H6tel de la Couronne Dordrecht — Hotel Bellevue Eqmond aan Zee— Kurhaus Hotel (Closed in winter) Flushino— Hotel Zeeland Groningen— Hdtel de Doelen Haarlem — Restaurant de Brinkmann and Restaurant de Kroon Hotel Paulez Grand Hotel Central Hague, The/^J •s Hertogenbosch- Hotel Groenhuis HOORN — Park Hotel Leeuwarden — Hotel Nicuwe Doelen Leyden— Hotel Levedag Maastricht— Hotel du L6vrier MiDDELBURG — Hotel Nieuwe Doelen Nijmegen— Hotel Keizer Karel Oostekbeek— Hotel Tatfelberg Rotterdam— Hotel Weimar Schevenixgen— Hotel des Galeries Tilburg — Hotel Gouden Zwaan Utrecht — Hotel Kasteel van Antwerpen WiJK AAN Zee— Bad Hotel Zaxdvoort — Hdtel d'Orange Zutphen— Grand H6tel du Soleil Zwolle — Hotel Keizer kroon Vlll. HOTELS. Ho Hand — continu ed. Series V. Amsterdam— -Amstel Hotel Haoue, The— Hotel dea Indes ScHEVENiNGEN— Kurhaus Hotel Wassenaar— Hotel ChAteau Oud Wassenaar Series W. Amsterdam— Brack's Doelen Hotel Hague, The— Hotel Bellcvue Flushing— Grand H6tel des Bains (Closed in winter) Haarlem— Hotel Funckler SCHEVENINGEN— Grand Hotel Utrecht— Hotel des Pays-Bas Series R. ALKMAAR— Hotel Neuf Amsterdam— Hotel Suisse ,. Hdtel Oldewelt H6tel Neuf „ H6tel Het Haasje Arnhem— H6tel de Pauw Dordrecht— Hendriks Hotel Edam— Dam Hotel Enkhuizen— Stapel Hotel FLUSHING— Hotel Albion Groxingen— Hotel Seven Provinces Haarlem— Hotel Lion d'Or Hague, The— Hotel dn Passage Hotel Lion d'Or „ Hotel Astoria et de Paris Harlingen— Hotel Herrenlogement HILVERSUM— Hotel Gooiland Hook of Holland— Hotel Harwich Leeuwarden— Hotel Phoenix Leyden— Hotel Rynland Maastricht— Hotel Derlon MiDDELBURO— H6tel du Commerce NIJMEGEN— H6tel du Soleil Rotterdam— Hdtel de France „ Hotel Victoria SCHEVENINGEN— Hotel Zeerust (Closed in winter) „ Grand Hotel Royal (Closed in winter) Texel— Hotel Texel Utrecht— Hotel Central Valkenburg— Hotel Monopole Vlaardin GEN— Hotel Bellevue Volendam— Hotel Spaander ^ (Revised Apr., 1914.) THE TRAVELLER'S HANDBOOK FOR HOLLAND. INTRODUCTORY. Itinerary. — Starting from London, and travelling by easy stages, the principal cities and points of interest in Holland may be visited dming a circular tour of about a fortnight or three weeks, although of course the antiquary and art-lover may occupy double that time or even more, if time is not an object, with advantage. Here is a suggested itinerary, which it will be an easy matter for the traveller to extend, shorten or modify as desired, according to circumstances, time available, individual tastes, etc. The itinerary is equally suitable if the journey to Holland is made via the Hook of Holland (see ]). 2), or via Belgium, Antwerp, etc Days. London to Dordrecht ... ... ' ... i Dordrecht to Rotterdam ... ... ..., i At Rotterdam ... ... ... ... i Rotterdam to the Hague ... ... ... i At the Hague ... ... ... ... i The Hague to Leyden and Haarlem ... i Haarlem to Alkmaar and the Helder ... i Alkmaar to Hoorn ... ... ... i Hoorn to Amsterdam ... ... ... i At Amsterdam ... ... ... ... 2 An^terdam to Utrecht ... ... ... i Utrecht to Leeuwarden ... ... ... i Leeuwarden to Zutphen -(z^/a Groningen) ... i Zutphen to Arnhem and Nijmegen ... ... i Nijmegen to Breda ... ... ... i . Breda to London ... ... ... i Total 17 B 2 INTRODUCTORY. Routes to Holland.— The quickest and most direct routes to Holland are as follows :— « ^ . r (a) London, Harwich (Parkeston Quay), Hook of Holland ; leaving Liverpool Street by Great Eastern Railway, at 8.30 p.m., for Harwich (Parkeston Quay), passengers embark there at 10 p.m in one of the large new steamers of the company, and arrive at about 5.15 A.M. (Dutch time) at the Hook of Holland, where express trains are waiting to start for the Dutch cities (also for North and South Germany, and for Scandinavia, vtd North Germany). (d) London, Queenboro' (or Folkestone), Flushing^ leaving London (Victoria) at 10 a.m. and 8.35 p.m., by South-Eastern and Chatham Railway (Holborn Viaduct and St. Paul's a few minutes earlier), passengers embark at Queenboro' (or Folkestone) on one of the fine (paddle-wheel by day, twin-screw by night) steamers of the Zeeland Steamship Company, and are landed at Flushing: in about 7 hours (or ^ hours), at the railway station close to the quay, and proceed m express trains— restaurant-cars to Amsterdam in connection with night boats— to any part of Holland (also to Belgium and Germany). The steamers from Harwich and from Queenboro' (or Folkestone) recendy built for their respective services, are large, powerful and comfortable vessels, fitted witl^ every regard to speed, safety and convenience. Wireless Telegraphy apparatus has been installed on board the (i) Harwich-Hook of Holland and (2) Queenboro^- (or Folkestone) Flushing steamers, and passengers may avail themselves ot these facilities at the following tariffs :— (i) 3d. per word to the United Kingdom ; 4jd. to Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany ; 5d. to Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden; 5^d. to Spain ; yd. to Russia in Europe. Theserf:harges are via Caister or N. Foreland; the charge via Scneveningen for messages to Belgium and the Nether- lands is 3d. per word ; to the United Kingdom sd. ; to the other countries named either the same rate or |d. per word more or less. * Passengers may travel by previous train leaving at 5 p.m. for Folkestone Harbour. INTRODUCTORY. 3 ^'^ frL^Hornd.'^'^"' ^'^ '''' '^^ ^^^--^ ^^^^^--^ ioumev'^lo' Ron f^ ^^^^ '^^^^^ ^"^ '''^'^'' ^^^^lities, the journey to Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Harlingen and Flii<;V,ina may b^^ade direct from England 'by the f^nrnfste^^^^^^ Dundee to Rotterdam ; J. Rankine & Son evervMondnv sST^"'^^^ ' ^- ^•''^°" ^ ^°-' -"^ Mrja7r?tur„tg an? "Skswte"' Rfil'^'T = Goole Steam Shipping (Lancashire ana vorkshire Railway), every Wednesday and Saturdav returning Tuesdays and Saturdays. ^ Saturday, anJ^Yorks^hife^^l-f **"/ ^°°'' ^'""™ Shipping (Lancashire ana vorkshire Railway), every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, returning Tuesdays, Thursdays, a^d SaturdayJ' ^ Tues'da7.n'?^",*''H'° Rotterdam; J. Rankine & Son,' every 1 uesday and Saturday, returning Tuesdays and Fridays Mon^.v^T"")" '" Amst^'-dam ; J. Rankine & Son, every S^yf ''^'^ ^"'^ ^^'""'^y' '^turning Tuesday's and TuS^^T^h,!^'^**"^'*'.^"".^'''^"' Central Railway, every luesday, Thursday and Saturday, returning every Tuesdav Thursday and Saturday. Average passage i! hours. ^' Tninf r- '° .^■"^t^'-^'a"' ; Hull and Holland S.S. Service Tue dav?and'sa; 'h"' '''f ""^'^"^ ^"^ Saturday, returning 1 uesdays and Saturdays. Average passage 20 hours. Hul to Rotterdam ; Hull and Holland S.S. Service Toint pasTag e?6Vo2' ^"^^^^^ '''"''^''' *" ^"^ <^i-tion."" Avi^^e' w" r '° "«••""»«" ; Hull and Holland S.S. Service wTdneSrnnH'.'ri Wednesday and Saturday, retur^ng Wednesdays and Saturdays. Average passage 20 hours retur^g ratu"rdi;r^" '' ""• ^''"" "" ^°-' ^^^^^ ^"^^'^^^' retifn^^g l^eXtand^S^tLrfay^'"'^"" " ^"°' ^"^ ^-<^^^. R-rid!'*'' ? Rotterdam ; G. Gibson & Co., Tuesday and .7 30 hJuT'"' ^""''^ ^"' ^"*^^^- A--g^ P-4e B 2 4 INTRODUCTORY. London to Harlingen ; General Steam Navigation Company, (from Brewer's Quay, near Custom House), every Sunday and Wednesday ; return Wednesdays and Saturdays. London to Rotterdam ; Batavier Line (formerly known as the Netherlands Line), from Tilbury daily, Sundays excepted; return daily, except Sundays. To Tilbury from London (Fenchurch Street Station) by rail. London to Amsterdam; Holland Steamship Company (from "off the Tower"), every Sunday and Wednesday ; return every Wednesday and Saturday. Average passage 18-20 hours. Newcastle to Rotterdam ; Tyne-Tees S.S. Company, every Tuesday and (in summer) Saturday, returning Saturday and (in summer) Tuesday. Average passage 24 hours. When to visit Holland. — Any month may be chosen between April and October inclusive; a visit to Holland is interesting at any season of the year. In winter of course it is an ideal country for skating (see pp. 12, 18). Luggage. — As the conveyance of luggage forms an important item in the expenses of a Continental tour, this " necessary evil " should be condensed as far as possible. If it can be conveniently so arranged, the tourist should only take a small trunk or valise that he can carry in his hand. To those who cannot do this, a strong leather portmanteau is recommended. It should be of simple construction and possess a good lock, so that it can be opened readily for Customs examination. In Holland, ordinary local tickets allow no free luggage. Custom House Examinations are generally made at the station nearest the frontier (see p. 5) or at the landing port (Hook of Holland, Flushing, Antwerp, &c.). Passengers must always be present at the Custom House examinations, and hand their keys to the examining officer. The Customs examination is one of the greatest drawbacks to the pleasures of foreign travel, but passengers will do well to remember that civility costs nothing and may be worth much, and that the Custom House officers are merely performing a dtity. There is a small duty on cigars entering Holland. The following is a list of Customs stations at or adjoining the Dutch frontier, beginning at Nieuweschans and proceeding southwards and westwards to Eede. Reference to it and the INTRODUCTORY. railv/ay map will enable travellers entering or leaving Holland to see where they will be called upon to have their unregistered luggage examined. This is generally done in the railway carriage, and if passengers have nothing to declare, causes them little or no inconvenience. Inside Holland. Nieuweschans. Oldenzaal. Enschede. Winterswijk. Zevenaar. Lobith (Rhine). Groesbeek. (jennep. Venlo. Vlodrop. Kerkrade-Rolduc. Simpelveld. Eijsden. Maastricht. Budel. Valkerswaard. Baarle-Nassau. Rosendaal. I lulst. Sas van Oent. Eede. Outside Holland. Weener. Bentheim. Gronau. jBorken t Bocholt El ten. Emmerich (Rhine.) Cranenburg. Goch. fStraelen. ( Kaldenkirchen. Dalheim. Herzogenrath. Aix-la-Chapelle. Vise. Lanaeken. Hamont. Achel. Weelde-Herxplas. Esschen. La Clinge. Selzaete. Middelburg. c O S Customs on the Harwich Route (Great Eastern Railway). Outwards. — Luggage registered from London to Holland is examined at Hook of Holland. Homewards. — From Holland to I^ndon, examination takes place at Liverpool Street Station, on week-days ; on Sundays, or if steamer arrives late, at Harwich ; or if registered through to other places in England, then ai Harwich on landing. Customs on the Flushing Route. Outwards. — Luggage registered from London (Victoria, Hoi born, St. Paul's or Heme Hill) to a Dutch Station is examined at Flushing. Homewards. — Luggage registered from a Dutch INTRODUCTORY. Station to Victoria or Hoi born Station by train arriving on a week-day morning is examined at Victoria or Holborn ; on Sunday mornings at Queenboro'. By train arriving in the evening, at Queenboro' or Victoria. Luggage cannot be registered to St. Paul's Station. All other luggage is examined at Queenboro' or Folkestone Pier. Should the steamer arrive late all luggage is examined at Queenboro' or Folkestone. The usual cloakroom charges will be made for registered baggage not claimed within 24 hours after its arrival in London. Passengers entering Great Britain are allowed duty free I pint of spirit for drinking, \ pint of liqueur, or perfumed spirit (Eau de Cologne, etc.), and \ pound of cigars or tobacco, but any quantity, however small, must be declared. The following are prohibited : False money, extracts of tea, coffee, chicory, tobacco stalks stripped of the leaf, tobacco stalk flower, copyright books reprinted abroad, articles with marks or names imitating those of British manufactures. Passengers' Bas:s:ag:e Insurance. — Travellers using tickets issued by Thos. Cook & Son can have their personal effects, including cycles, insured on payment of a small premium at their offices in Great Britain. The insurance covers all risks of the loss of passengers' baggage, including loss by fire, theft and pilfering while travelling by sea and land, also while staying at hotels or travelling between hotels and railway stations, damage caused by sea water, etc. Insurance can be effected for amounts of ^20 and upwards. Jewellery, to the value of ^40, // not placed in the registered f^^gg^g^i can be covered by this insurance. Special insurance can be effected for jewellery of greater value. Rates :— >> >> * -.J >. 1 IS "o « -o T* t) 82 * 3 S s S 9 £ 3 « 3 « S 1 5--, c £■-,0 o-„ c ^1 £.•« &•« S.-0 S.^ a-S •g^* i** =2^* *1 ■OS « e ■0 a . -a Is •OS 1 •0 ^§ 1 •aS S 9 3 Ssg- 1 = 5- B "a H « 3 '1 H «3 S-2 ' ■A 0, 'A 0. 1-2 B d. 8. d. 8. d. 8- d. s. d. £ 8. d. £ 8. d- £ 8. d. £ 8 d. £ m. d. £20 1 2 6 » 8 4 8 5 8 t; a 7 8 12 8 10 6 1 £30 2 6 rt 8 4 9 6 8 7 9 9 8 10 M 10 cents ( 2 St.) ■ • ■ = 2 4 » •5 »» V 5 » ' ■•• ••• 50 » (10 » ) . I gulden (or florin) or 20 stuivers 2\ gulden or rijksdaalder Gold = = I = 4 5 10 8 2 10 „ 20 „ 40 „ I dol. 1 gulden (Gouden tientze) ■ • • = 16 8 4 » li . Notes are issued by the Netherlands Bank for 10, 25, 40, 60, 100, 200, 300 and 1,000 gulden, which are at par with gold. Hotels abound, and, as a rule, are good. In some places a system prevails abroad of charging fancy prices, and travellers contemplating a stay of several days or weeks should make an agreement with the hotel-keeper. Even then it is well to have the bill every other day or so, in order to see how things are going. Thos. Cook & Son supply Cook's Hotel Coupons, and as these are available at Motels which can be well recommended, everyone should provide himself with them. For list of Hotels where these Coupons are accepted, see pp. vii-viii. For complete list of (Continental Hotels, see Cook's Travellers' Gazette, price 3^. ; by post, 5^. ** En Pension *' Arrangements. — While our system of hotel coupons is thoroughly well known and appreciated by the travelling public, it is not so well known that we are also able to quote reduced '*en pension " terms for any class of hotel, when passengers propose to make an extended stay in one place. Rates can be given for rooms in any position selected, which is a great advantage in season resorts, while the accom- modation will be reserved in advance, thus ensuring the maximum of comfort with the minimum of trouble to the traveller. Our anangemenis for ** en pension" terms range from the palatial hotel de luxe to the less pretentious, but often more comfortable," pension." Of the latter we are in correspondence with a large number of establishments offering excellent accom- modation at rates within the means of all. The accommodation in pensions is, however, generally limited, so that good notice should be given to secure rooms, especially during the height of the season. For further details ask for special four-page leaflet. Cook's Travelling: Coupons are now so well known and universally used that they need but little description. Suffice it to say that if there are advantages in knowing of cheap, comfortable, and well-recommended Hotels wherein to rest, there are a hundredfold more in having all the difficulties of travel made smooth. The most inexperienced may avail lO INTRODUCTORY. themselves of them without fear of not being able to get on, and the most experienced take them as the simplest, easiest, and cheapest means of travelling. Time-Tables. — The official time-tables of the railway companies should be consulted, as alterations are constantly taking place ; and though such alterations are carefully watched, it is impossible for any general time-table published in this country to guarantee complete accuracy. Cook's Continental Time-Tables, Tourists Handbook and Steamship Tables, published monthly at u., contains the times of all the principal Continental railway and steamer services, and ten sectional maps. Time. — Amsterdam time (20 minutes in advance, he., later than Greenwich) is used throughout Holland, including railways. As in Belgium, no one is allowed on railway platforms without a ticket. Platform ticket 2^ cents. Fee for leaving luggage at railway stations 10 or 20 cents. Smoking carriages are attached to all trains. Carriages in which smoking is not permitted are labelled " Niet rooken.'^ Postage. — Letters to Holland not exceeding one ounce 2^d., plus i^d. for every additional ounce or fraction (proposed reduction to 5 cents or id). Letters /// Holland 5 cents per 20 grammes ; between Holland and Belgium lo cents {2d.) per 20 grammes (intended to be reduced to 5 cents or id.) to the United Kingdom and other countries in the Postal Union i2| cents (2^d.) per 20 grammes, plus 7 J cents for every additional 20 grammes or fraction. Post Cards in Holland 2 J cents ; international 5 cents (id.). Printed matter in Holland, i cent for 50 grammes ; abroad 2 J cents (^d.) for every 50 grammes (nearly 2 ounces). Telegrams. — The rates for these in Holland are 25 cents for ten words, plus 5 cents for every 5 words beyond ; to the United Kingdom 50 cents for 5 words, plus 10 cents for every word beyond ; to the United States 82 cents per word and upwards. Fees are usually given to servants by travellers, and this practice, when reasonably indulged in, is found to greatly conduce to the general comforts of travelling. Porters carrying luggage will often make extortionate demands. The hotel INTRODUCTORY. II ^ Portier should be asked to pay what is fair. At churches and galleries 25 cents is quite enough for a couple of persons, as a rule, although this may sometimes be increased. Make a rule of never going out without a supply of small coins, but never use them lavishly. Cycling. — The excellent and level roads everywhere met with in Holland are much in its favour from the cyclist's point of view, and most of the chief roads are provided' with a path for wheelmen. The roads in North Brabant, however, being paved with cobblestones, are the least pleasant. In passing other vehicles going in the same direction cyclists must keep to the /e/t, but to the rigkt on meeting them. A light must be used at night, and each machine must be provided with a bell or other warning signal. Bicycles brought into the country by travellers /or t/ieir own use are admitted duty free ; otherwise the duty is 5 per cent, on the value of cycles imported. The charge for registering bicycles as ordinary luggage between Harwich and the Hook of Holland or Rotterdam is 35. (tandems 5^., tricycles 7^. (id., motor cycles 4.^. (yd., motor tricycles, 1 1^. 3^.) Between London and the Hook, bicycles 5^., tricycles \os. ; London and Flushing, bicycles 5^., tricycle or n^otor cycle \os., motor tricycle 20^. Members of the C.r.C. can avail themselves of the privileges of the Algemeene Nederlandsche Wielryders Bond ^Secretary, Mr. Sprenger, 12, Wilhelmina Park, Haariem) by applying for a temporary member's ticket (subscription 3^ fl., badge 75 cents). The publications of the society, atlas, handbook and map showing distances, &c., may be obtained on reason- able terms from Mr. Fockema, Villa Rosa, Arnhem. All the railways carry cycles in crates or otherwise at reasonable rates, and the Hollandsche Yzeren Spoorweg Maatschappy's charge is 20c. for each machine, issuing single tickets to cyclists at half return fares, on production of the voucher. There are now no restrictions as to motor-cyclists entering Holland with their machines. Motoring — The duty on motor-cars entering Holland is 5 per cent, on the declared value, refunded to travellers on leav- ing the country within six months. The possession of a triptych obviates the necessity of paying duty, and English tourists before visiting Holland should apply to the Association of which they are members— either the Royal Automobile Club, the Automobilist Association or the Motor Union — for this 12 INTRODUCTORY. I document. Carrying the International Travelling Pass and Plaque enables niotoiists to travel in any of those countries (including Holland) that have adhered to the International Convention of iith October, 1909, without obtaining the special licences or carrying special numbers in each country. The distinguishing letters for Great Britain are " GB " and for the United States "US." The rule of the road is to keep to the right and overtake on the left. There is no definite limit of speed, but this must not be such as is likely to endanger the traffic. A tax is, however, levied on motor-cars entering the country and making use of the provincial roads of North Brabant, but this may be avoided (i) if the circulation on the roads does not exceed 15 days, provided a card obtainable free of charge upon application to the Provincial Greffe at 's Hertogenboscii (or the Direct Contribution Receipt Office of North Brabant or the Frontier Customs Offices) is carried ; or (2) by using the State Roads only. Rates for forwarding cycles or motor cars to Holland in advance of the passenger will be quoted, on full particulars being furnished to Thos. Cook & Son, Baggage Department, Ludgate Circus, London, E.C. Fishing' is free generally, except of course in private waters. Qolf Links. — There are links at Velp, near Arnhem (y holes), Velsen, near Wijk-aan-Zee (9), Driebergen (9), Haarlem (9), The Hague (9), Scheveningen (9), Hilversum {9 — ^ mile from station). Shooting, see p. 70. Skating. — The canals and waterways of Holland afford splendid facilities for skating in winter. Haarlem is a good centre. The canal from Ymuiden to Amsterdam often has splendid ice, and provides a straight course of nearly 20 miles. There are numberless smaller canals in every direction. The canal forming the outlet to the ocean of the Rijn (Rhine) will provide an interesting skating trip from the sea at Katwyk, via Leyden and Woerden, as far as Utrecht. We need scarcely caution our readers against being too venturesome ; it is better to keep to the beaten tracks. Although the pastime INTRODUCTORY. 13 of skating may be enjoyed with the ordinary EngHsh short skates, yet the long Dutch ones are safer and much to be preferred. They can be obtained in Holland, with straps, for about 8^. per pair. Churches should be visited in the morning, as they are then usually open free, and can be viewed with greater pleasure on account of the light. Moreover, it is a great saving in expense, as later in the day a fee is generally demanded or expected by the sacristan who opens them for visitors. It will not be taken unkindly by the tourist to be reminded that many attractions in Continental churches sometimes cause him to forget that they are places of worship ; and if for his own convenience and pleasure he visits them at times w^hen they are frequented by worshippers, he should be careful to abandon the use of opera-glasses, guide-books, and other accessories, if they are likely to prove a hindrance to the devotions of others. Unfortunately this has been disregarded so much — and notably by English and Americans — that it has been found necessary in some churches to write over the entrance *' Honour is due in God's house." English Churches are not invariably mentioned in this work, as in every hotel frequented by the English there are abundant notices in which the time and place of service are recorded. According to the season of the year, changes are often made, too, both as regards time^ and place, but no difficulty will be found in obtaining accurate information on these points. Public Holidays. — New Year's Day, January ist ; Easter Monday ; Ascension Day (May 20th) ; Whit Monday ; Christmas Day (December 25th). List of books relating to Holland, calculated "to prepare the mind of the traveller to appreciate what the guide- books point out to him as worth seeing." The Rise of the Dutch Republic. 3 vols. /. Z. Motley. Motley's Dutch Nation (the above condensed and brought down to 1908) . . W. E. Griffis. The Story of Holland . . . J, E. T. Rogers. The Story of Holland ... /. Don. William the Silent .... Ruth Putnam. 14 ' INTRODUCTORY. Holland and its People Holland and the Hollanders Home Life in Holland Holland and our Friends the Dutch Dutch Life in Town and Country The American in Holland A Wanderer in Holland . Through Holland Things seen in Holland . The Heart of Holland Picturesque Holland The Dead Cities of the Zuyder Zee The Standard Guide to the Holland Galleries .... Cruising in the Netherlands Through Holland in the Vivette Friesland Meres, &c Lysbeth ; a tale of the Dutch . E. de Amicis (tr.) D. S. Meldrum. D. S. Meldrum, S. S, Abrahamson, F. M. Hough, W.E Griffis. , E. V. Lucas, . C. W.Wood . C. E. Roche. H. Havard {\x.) do. (tr.) do. (tr.) The Botor Chaperon The Black Tulip The Burgomaster's Wife ; a tale of the Siege of Leyden Gotty in Furrin Parts (humorous) The Cloister and the Hearth . Esther Singleton. G. C. Davies. E. K. Chatter ton H. M Doughty. H. Rider Haggard, C, N,Qf A. M. Williamson. A. Dumas (tr.) G, M. Ebers (tr.) A. E. Copping. Charles Reade. HISTORICAL AND GENERAL NOTES. 15 HISTORICAL AND GENERAL NOTES CONCERNING HOLLAND. History. — In 843, by virtue of the treaty of Verdun, that portion of Charlemagne's empire represented by Batavia and Friesland was annexed to Germany. Brabant and Gueldres afterwards became dukedoms, and Holland and Zeeland countships, and in course of time nearly the whole of the Netherlands came under the rule of the Dukes of Burgundy. By the marriage of Mary, daughter of Charles the Bold (the last of the Dukes of Burgundy, who died 1477), with the Archduke, afterwards Maximilian I, Emperor of Germany, the Netherlands came into possession of that monarch, and on the abdication of Charles V (1555) and the accession of his son Philip II, they became subject to the dominion of Spain. The introduction of the Inquisition, the cruelty of the Duke of Alva, and other grievances, led to a revolt which was successful on the part of the northern provinces, but the Belgian provinces were reduced to submission. In. 1579 the celebrated treaty of Utrecht was concluded, and the northern provinces of Holland, Utrecht, Gueldres, Friesland and Zeeland declared their independence. These provinces, with the addition of Overyssel and Groningen, in 1581 formed themselves into the Republic of the United provinces. The first stadtholder and the founder of Dutch liberty was William of Nassau ("the Silent"), Prince of Orange, originally appointed as governor by Phillip II in 1559. William was assassinated at Delft {see p. 39) in 1584, by Balthasar Gerard, and was succeeded by his son Maurice, under whose rule was formed the Dutch East India Company in 1602. The prosperity of the States reached its climax under Maurice's brother, Frederick Henry (1625-47). Trade flourished, Holland became a great maritime power, rivalling England and not infrequently defeating her, and the Dutch school of painting was at the height of its fame. The I i6 HOLLAND. Republic becoming weakened by internal dissensions, Louis XIV saw his opportunity and invaded Holland, taking possession of Gueldres, Overyssel and Utrecht. The people, however, united to repel the invaders and the French were defeated, the war being terminated by the peace of Ryswick in 1697. In 1795 the Repubhc, having lost its prestige, was taken possession of by the French Republic and the Batavian Republic founded; but in 1806 Napoleon decreed that Holland should be created a monarchy under his brother Louis Bonaparte. Louis, who was only a tool in the hands of Napoleon, abdicated in 18 10, and Napoleon ordered Holland to be incorporated with the French Empire. After the battle of Leipsic in 18 13, Holland co-operated with the allies and recalled the exiled Prince of Orange, who was proclaimed king under the title of William L In 181 5 the southern provinces (Belgium) were united with the northern, but the union ended with the Belgian Revolution of [830, and the independence of Belgium was recognized by the Great Powers on 4th November of that year. King William I in 1840 abdicated in favour of his son William II, who (dying in 1849) was succeeded by William III. At his death in 1890 the male line of the house of Nassau-Orange became extinct. He was succeeded by his daughter Wilhelmina in 1898, the queen-mother having acted as regent during her minority. Wilhelmina married (in February, 1901) Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who received the title of Prince of the Netherlands, and a princess named Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina of Orange Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, was born on 30th April, 1909. The infant princess was baptised on 5th June in the same year at the modern church, Willemskerk, The Hague, on the east side of Willemspark (see p. 52). Area, Population. — Holland is a maritime kingdom of Central Europe, consisting of 1 1 provinces — Zeeland^ North Brabant, North Holland, South Holland, Utrecht, Gtielderlafid, Limburg, Over Yssel, Groningen, Frieslar,d, and Drenthe — with a total area of about 1 2,600 square miles (about twice that of Yorkshire), Jind a population of nearly 6 millions. It is bounded on the north and west by the North Sea, on the south by Belgium, and on the east by Germany. Surface. — The surface of Holland is very flat, and is for the most part many feet below the level of the North Sea, HISTORICAL AND GENERAL NOTES. 17 which is kept in check by enormous dykes or embankments. These are maintained at great expense by engineers exclusively occupied in their superintendence. Dykes are also necessary for the prevention of inundations by rivers, the beds of these being gradually raised by alluvial deposits. The country is mtersected in every direction by canals, whose surface, and even bed, is often considerably higher than the level of the country through which they flow. These canals serve the triple purpose of high roads for traffic, drainage, and enclosures or boundaries for houses fields, gardens, &c., in the sa/iie way that walls and ditches serve in other lands. Dutch canals are generally broad, the widest being about 100 feet, with a depth varying from 6 feet to 25 feet. Lines of 'sand- hills, or dunes, extend along the coast from Haarlem as far as, and beyond, the Belgian frontier, serving, as do the dykes in other parts, to prevent the encroachment of the sea. The dunes consist of fine loose sand, with very little vegetation, and in various places grass has been sown to prevent, as far as possible, sand being blown inland over the meadows.' As^riculture, Vegetation, &c.— Holland's chief products are potatoes, wheat, barley, rye, oats, peas, beans, buckwheat, beetroot, chicory, flax, hemp, tobacco, and, of course, dairy produce. The fertility of the soil is particularly adapted for breeding cattle, horses, and sheep, pigs, &c., and these are raised m large numbers. Its manufactures include margarine, bricks, cocoa, chocolate, linen, cottons, woollens, and the kind of gin known as Hollands, or Geneva. At Amsterdam numerous persons are employed in the diamond-cutting industry. Haarlem and district are celebrated for fine hyacinths, tulips, lilies and other bulbs, and begonias. Religion.— About three-fifths of the population belong to the Dutch Reformed Church, the remainder, with the excep- tion of a number of Jews in the large towns (Amsterdam has about 70,000), being Roman Catholics. Government.— Monarchical. The legislative power is vested in the States-General, consisting of two Chambers, First and Second, of 50 and 100 members respectively, the former elected by the 1 1 provincial States, and the latter by ballot, one deputy being allotted to every 45,000 persons. Principal Towns.— Amsterdam (with a population of 575,000) and Rotterdam (about 427 000) are the commercial i8 HOLLAND. capitals ; The Hague is the Court capital, with a population of about 270,000; Haarlem, Utrecht, Dordrecht (or Dordt), Flushing, Scheveningen, Leeu warden, Groningen, and Helder. The principal rivers are the Rhine, Maas, and Yssel. Colonies.— The Dutch have considerable possessions in the East Indies, including Sumatra, Java and Madura, nearly the whole of Borneo and Western New Guinea ; in the West Indies, Cura^oa ; in South America, the colony of Surinam, or Dutch Guiana. Entire population, about 40 millions. Army and Navy. — The home forces consist of a modified militia, recruited by voluntary enlistment supplemented by conscription by ballot. The colonial army numbers about 36,000 (men and officers), ab^ut two-thirds of them coloured races, and the rest Europeans. The navy consists of about 210 vessels, including ironclads, torpedo-boats, etc. Education. — Elementary education is compulsory between the ages of seven and thirteen, but private schools are also encouraged and helped by the State. There are also secondary establishments, and public Universities at Amsterdam, Leyden, Utrecht, and Groningen. At Delft there is a Technical College or Polytechnic. In no case does education cost more than £\^ annually, and the most successful University students come from the town schools rather than the classical seminaries. Part of the cost of the national education is met by a tax on bachelors. About half the educated classes speak either English, French or German. Climate. — The mean temperature of Holland is as high as that of England, owing to the proximity of the sea, though the winters are rather colder. The soil is, as may easily be imagined, marshy and humid. Sea-fogs are frequent, and violent winds from the north-east or south-west often sweep over the country. Special Objects of interest.— One of the first things that will strike the visitor is the number of Dykes or Dams, upon which the very existence of almost the entire kingdom depends. The most gigantic are those of Helder, five miles long (N. Holland), Petten (N. Holland), and Westkapelle (Island of Walcheren). Canals intersect the country in every direction ; they are the high-roads of Holland. Those connected with the sea HISTORICAL AND GENERAL NOTES. 19 are provided with massive flood-gates, keeping out the sea when its level is above that of the water in the canals. The most important canals are the North Sea Canal (connecting Amsterdam with the German Ocean), the Zuid-Willems-Vaart (South-Willems-Vaart, N. Brabant), and the Great North Holland Canal. Polders is the name given to lakes or morasses which have been drained and thus made available for cultivation. A great part of Holland has been reclaimed in this way. The drainage is effected by means of hydraulic apparatus, .usually worked by windmills, the water being pumped into the canals and thence carried into the rivers. I'he principal polders are the Schermer, Purmer, Haarlem, Beemster and the polder of the Y. No Dutch landscape would be complete without its windmill, and windmills are here used for a variety of purposes, including pumping, as already mentioned. The frequently occurring painted heads seen in the streets with open mouth and protruding tongue are the signs used for chemists' shops {see p. 79). Dutch national costumes are very picturesque, but are rarely to be seen nowadays in the larger towns, except on market-days. Those of the peasants of Friesland, Volendam, the island of Marken, Zeeland are particularly interesting. All forms of ^amblin^ and betting are prohibited in Holland by A' t of Faili.ment which came into force on 15th June, 1911. The most fashionable sea-bathing resort in Holland is Scheveningen (see p. 54), near the Hague; Zandvoort {see p. 66), a fishing-village near Haarlem, is also much frequented in the season ; other sea-side resorts are Katwijk aan Zee {see p. 61), Noordwijk aan Zee {see p. 62), Wijk aan Zee {see p. 67), Egmond aan Zee {see p. 69), Bergen aan Zee {see p. 69). c 2 so HOLLAND. - LONDON TO ROTTERDAM. (i) By the majority of travellers this journey is performed by train from London, and steamer from Harwich to the Hook of Holland (route (a), p.x 2), thence train to Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, &c. Leavmg the Great Eastern Railway (Liverpool Street) at 8.30 p.m., for Harwich, the traveller will arrive at the Hook of Holland very early in the morning (refreshment room), and at Rotterdam in good tim«i for breakfast {ste route (a), p. 2). Distance from the Hook of Holland to Rotterdam (Central Station), about 17 milts in about 45 mins. Stations passed : Niauwlandsche Polder, de Haak, Poorters- haveft, Maassiuis, Vlaardin^en {see p. 21), Schiedam sche dijk, Schiedam {see p. 22). Hook of Holland to Amsterdam via Gonda 65 miles. „ The Hague 69^ miles. (2) The journey to Rotterdam can also be made entirely by steamer as per list on p. 3 ; pleasant and economical voyages in summer, without change of conveyance. All sea routes to Rotterdam unite at the Nieuwe Waterweg, a canalise 1 branch of the Maas (French Meuse), about 16 miles below Rotterdam, thus avoiding the old passage by Briell-*. Entering the mouth of the Maas by Mail steamer, the traveller sees a low slip of land on either side. (From steamers stopping at the projecting bank, called the Hook of Holland (HoteC^^^ pp. vii-viii), the baggage of travellers for Holland, Germany, etc., is taken into the Cuslom House opposite the Quay for examination.) Passengers for Rotterdam by other than the Mail steamers do not land at the Hook, but continue the voyage by the Maas Sluis. The town of Maassluis (British Consular Agent : G. Dirkzwager) is on the left. On the right the formerly fortified town of Brlel or Brielle is seen in the distance, the first town that fell into the hands of the Dutch, wrested from the Spaniards LONDON TO ROTTERDAM. 21 in 1572, and afterwards (1585 until 16 16) was in possession of the English. The celebrated Admiral Maarten van Tromp \vas born at Brielle in 1597, died 1653. About six miles farther on are two large Docks and an Arsenal. Very interesting now is the appearance of the river. Vessels of all sizes, from the small fishing boat to the stately Indiaman and the gigantic steamer, are continually passing or being overtaken. The surface of the river is as smooth as a mirror, reflecting with wonderful precision the rows of alder and other trees which ceaselessly line its banks. Here, too, are seen some of the lofty windmills, so common in Holland, and which are necessary for pumping the water out of the dykes. The visitor will mark also how the banks are every- where protected by small bundles of reed skilfully woven together with straw wisps. Occasionally there is a passing glimpse of a few house roofs or a distant spire, but not a peep of the surrounding country. This is not at all surprising when it is remembered that the land in the interior is actually several feet below the level of the river, the waters of which are kept out only by the strength of the embankments or dykes. Sometimes the waves of the German Ocean, rushing with irresistible power up the Maas, dash themselves furiously on the dykes. Then sounds the alarm bell in every fishing village, in every coast hamlet, and as its w^arning tones ring far and wide every person capable of affording assistance comes, bringing hurdles, sails, or whatever may be ready to hand, for the purpose of strengthening the threatened dykes. Suddenly the vessel comes in sight of Vlaardingen (pop about i6,odo), the chief seat of the Dutch herring fishery (Hotel, see pp. vii-viii.) It is situated on the left hand, and at once attracts attention by reason of the busy appearance it presents. The fishing season commences in June. On the 14th of that month the fishermen hoist their flags and go to church to pray for success. On the 1 5th they set sail, the event being signalized by a general holiday. The return of the first boat is eagerly looked for, a watch being kept night and day from the church steeple. The first keg of fish is invariably sent to the Royal Family. Before reaching Rotterdam a dense smoke is seen inland to the left. It rises from the distillery chimneys of 13 HOLLAND. Schiedam, where "Geneva," or "Hollands," is manu- factured in vast quantities. (Steam tramway to Rotterdam). Although it only contains about 31,000 inhabitants, there are about 200 distilleries, the refuse grain from which furnishes food for something like 30.000 pigs. The town is surrounded by huge windmills, no less than sixty of which are visible at one time at a certain point of the river. Suddenly the indica- tions of life and activity increase, and the multitude of linden trees, houses, masts, funnels and windmills, which go to make up Rotterdam, come into view. ROTTERDAM. (Hotels. — See pp. vii-viii.) Railway Stations— Station Beurs, near the Bourse in the centre of the town. In general use, and combines with the Central Station outside the Delftsche Poort for the Hague, Haarlem, Amsterdam to the North, and Dordrecht, Venlo, Antwerp, etc., to the South. Rhyn Spoorweg (Maas) Station, for Gouda, Utrecht, Amsterdam and Germany. Post, Teleg:raph and Telephone Office on the Beursplein (Exchange Square). Open 6 a.m. to 9.30 p.m. English Protestant Church (St. Mary's) on the east side of the Haringvliet (shortly to be pulled down and rebuilt on another site). Service 11 a.m and 7 p.m. Ensriish Presbyterian Church in the Haringvliet. Service 10 a.m., and in winter at 6 p.m. Scotch Presbyterian Church 2 Vasteland. Service at 10.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. Consuls -British, H. Turing, Esq. : Vice-Consuls, F. W. Manners, J. W. Van Dyk, Es(|s. American Consul - General, S. Listoe, Esq. ; Vice and Deputy, G. H. Krogh, Esq. Taxi cabs. — For i or 2 person*^, 60 c. per 1,200 metres 10 c. for each 400 metres beyond ; double at night. Electric Tramways.— In all directions (including Schiedam), the chief station being in the Beursplein, near the Exchange. Steam Tramways to Hillegarsberg, Spijkenisse, Zuid-Beijerland. Horse Tramway to Overschie. Steamers. — Frequent sailings to London, to Antwerp, Dundee, Goole, Grangemouth, Hull and Grimsby, Leith, Newcastle, Liverpool, Bergen, Ghent and Brussels, Christiania, New York, Africa, etc. Local steamers daily (except Sundays in WJif^TiC Iniinctnn T-Tmrtrd £ambircA<» f/T»V w ROTTERDAM. 23 some cases) to Delft, Flushing, Vlaardingen, Middelburg, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Nijmegen, Tiel, Zierikzee, Tholen, Utrecht, Arnhem, Goes, Brielle, Dordrecht, Hook of Holland, Oostvoorne, Geertruidenberg, Oud-Beijerland, Raamsdonk, Ijselmonde, Pernis, Hellevoetsluis, Heusden, Stellendam, Lekkerkerk, Middelharnis, Waalwijk, Culemborg, Den Bommel, Willemstad, Gouda, Bois le Due ; five times a week to Leerdam ; four times a week to Venlo and Roermond ; twice a week to Middelharnis ; the Rhine steamers of the Netherlands-Rhine Steam Navigation Company, and the Coiogne-Dusseldorf Steamship Company start from the Prins Hendrikkade daily for Cologne and Mannheim, the former following the Waal via Nijmegen, and the latter the Lower Rhine via Arnhem. The places in Holland touched at on the respective routes are as under : (i) Gorinchem (see p. 38), Zalt-Bommel (see p. 38), Tiel (see p. 38), Nijmegen (see p. 115), Lobith (see p. 115). (2) Arnhem (seep. 112), Lobith (seep. 112). Circular steamer trips during the summer (July to September) leaving Rotterdam at 10.30 a.m. and returning by 3.30 P.M. via Dordrecht, Moerdijk, "Oude Maas " river, passing Vlaardingen and Schiedam ; also during the season a harbour trip is made daily, starting at 2.30 p.m. from the Park Pier. Theatres. — Schouwburg:, Aert Van Nes-Straat, German Opera, three times a week, September to May ; Tivoli- Schouwbur^:, Coolsingel, 24, Comedies, every evening. Variety Theatres. —Circus, Stations Plein ; Casino, 181, Schje Kade; Casino, Coolsingel; Pschorrbrau, Korte Hoogstraat, a handsome Cafe Concert Hall. Concerts. Zoolo£:ical Gardens, Tuesday and Friday in summer, 8 p.m. Admission 50 cents (see p. 27). Park, Sunday afternoon and evening and Wednesday evenings in summer (strangers must be introduced). Fine view over the river at sunset from the Park (Restaurant). Vauxhall Doele, Haagsche Veer, weekly in summer. The Kermesse, or Fair lasting eleven days, commences on the second Monday in August. Principal Sights. Antiquities Museum, Municipal, p. 27. Boompjes, the, p. 24. Boymans Museum, daily, 10-5 in summer ; 10-3 in winter; Sundays, 11-5, p. 26. a4 HOLLAND. Church of St. Lawrence, p. 26. Dockyard, the, by order from a householder, p. 28. Erasmus, statue of, p. 26. Erasmus, house of, p. 26. Exchange, the, p. 25. Great Market, the, p. 26. King's Bridge, the, p. 25. Maritime Museum, p. 27. Park, the, p. 27. Plantations, the, p. 28. Zoological Gardens, the, p. 27. Of the origin of Rotterdam little is known. Robert Cenalis, Bishop of Avranches, who wrote a Historia Galiica, asserts it to have been built by Rutter, King of France. Trith^me, a writer of the same period, asserts that it was built in 808, and that Rutter, twenty-third King of France, was buried there. But this story is untenable— first, because there was no King Rutter, and, secondly, because the site of Rotterdam was, long after the date of its alleged erection, inundated by the Maas. Subsequently a dam was placed at the junction of the Rotte and Maas, and a town sprang up called, in consequence, Rotterdam. In 1270 it was walled and became a city. In 1297 it was seized by the Flemings, and in 1418 by Waldegrave, Lord of Brederode. In 1794 the town was taken by the French, and suffered much from the decline of commerce during the long war which was happily terminated by the peace of 1815. An extraordinarily high tide in the Maas did much damage to the town in 1825. Rotterdam is a marvellously picturesque place, with its busy tiuays, old-fashioned houses, curious costumes, numberless bridges, countless trees, strangely-attired policemen and trim gardens (pop. 427,000). The river side of the city consists for a mile and a half of a series of magnificent quays, one of which is the Boompjes — so-called from boompjes (i.e., little trees) planted on it, now grown into stately linden trees. The shipping and steamboats are moored close to these quays, the river here being thirty or forty feet deep, so that passengers have merely to step from the deck on to the shore. The harbour and docks, recently constructed, have enabled Rotterdam to become the most active seaport in Holland. No. 117 Boompjes nas occupied by Ferdinand ROTTERDAM. 25 Lesseps (the founder of the Suez Canal) when he was Frencn Consul at Rotterdam, 1838-9, and a memorial tablet to that effect was placed on the house by the Rolterdam-Lloyd Co. on 7th April, 1909. On landing, the tourist finds himsdf at once in a world of novelty. The houses are clean and bright, both inside and out, and most of the windows are provided with little mirrors, by means of which the inmates can see all that takes place in tjie streets without being seen themselves. These mirrors are common in all Dutch and Flemish towns. The houses are generally from four to five storeys in height, some being extremely old-fashioned in appearance. All are so constructed that the lower portion may be hermetically closed in the event of an inundation. The costumes seen in the streets will not fail to attract the visitor's notice, especially when he comes across groups of Friesland farmers and their wives — the latter adorned by massive gold and silver ornaments on their foreheads. Within the last few years on the left bank of the Maas a new quarter has sprung up, with large docks and harbour works, one of the principal features of which is the King's Bridge (Koningsbrug), a handsome structure with two large lions couchant at each corner. Railway and road are conducted across the harbours, and through the openings of the bridges the largest vessels pass. The bridges, of which there are a very great number, are either drawbridges or swivel bridges, and are continually being opened for the purpose of allowing vessels to pass in and out. The principal harbours are the Konings Haven, the Binnen Haven, the Entrepot Haven, the Spoorweg Haven, the Ryn Haven, and the Maas Haven, the largest of all, completed in 1902. Canals and arms of the Maas intersect the town in every direction, and on the banks are seen women busily washing large quantities of linen. Passing up the Geldersche Kade to the left of the King's Bridge to the Beurs Place, the visitor reaches the Exchange, the Post and Telegraph Office, and the Beurs Railway Station, which are all close together, in or near the Beurs Plein in the centre of the town. The Exchange was built of sandstone in 1722, a plain solid construction, the spacious court being covered with glass. Admission 25 cents, 50 cents during business hours, 1-2 p.m. The tower contains a fine set of chimes. The Beur^ Station is above the street level. 26 HOLLAND. Near the Exchange is the Fish Market, built in 1882. In the Great Market (Groote Markt) is seen the bronze Statue of Erasmus, by Keiser, The great scholar Erasmus, head of the literary world in his day, who by issuing his Latin New Testament, prepared Europe for the Reformation, was born at Rotterdam. The house in which he was born (in 1467) is in Wyde Kerstraat (No. 3) ; it bears a statue of the scholar and a Latin inscription. From the market-place a narrow street leads to the Church of St. Lawrence (Groote Kerk), a heavy-lookmg brick structure of immense size, dating from 1447-1487. The edifice is closed on week-days, but may be inspected at any time on payment of 25 cents. It contains little that is interesting, save the monume.us of the Dutch admirals De Witt, Kortenaer and Van Brakel. A brass screen divides the choir and nave. The coats of arms which ornamented the various places were spitefully defaced by the French during their occupation of Holland. On the north side of the church is a memorial window commemorating the birth of the Princess Juliana (1909). The Organ, completed in 1840, is of immense size and tone, having 4 manuals, 90 stops and 6,500 pipes. It is played every alternate Friday in summer at about 2.30 p.m. ; but the organist will play at any time for 10 gulden (or florins) the hour. The visitor should make a point of hearing this organ, which is larcjer than the renowned instrument at Haarlem (p. 63) and said to be the largest in Holland. It was repaired in 1909 and is now blown by electricity. The Tower (210 feet) should be ascended for the view. Fee, 25 cents. The summit is reached by 325 steps, but the fatigue is amply repaid by the extraordinary view disclosed. Seen from this altitude, Rotterdam appears like an immense toy-city, the streets, the canals and boats heightening the illusion. The prospect includes Delft and Gouda ; the intervening country is a strange mixture of land and water. The Hoogstraat (High Street) of Rotterdam, where the best shops are seen, runs along the original dam from which the city is named. It piotects the low-lying Brunenstad. The land from the Hoogstraat to the Boompjes was reclaimed from the Maas at a later date. It is called the Buitenstad, and is the finest part of the town. The Boymans Museum, on the Schiedamsche Dyk, ROTTERDAM. 27 contains a fine collection of works by Dutch and Flemish painters, originally formed from a gift by Mr. F. J. O. Boymans, of some 350 paintings. Of these, some 150 were destroyed by fire in 1864. A new building was erected in 1866-67, and the collection of pictures has been gradually increased to about 500. The admission here is 5 cents (i penny) on Sundays and week-days from 1 1 to 5 (Mondays excepted). On Mondays and at other hours the fee is 25 cents (5^.). The paintings include fine specimens oiCuyp, Albert Diirer^ Van Dyck, Maas, Ostade, Rubens, Ritijsdael, Rembrandt, Snyders, Jan Steen, Van de Velde, IVouvennan, and Scheffer, There are also a few by Murillo, Greuze, Saiva/or Rosa and Titian, The Old Masters are displayed in six rooms on the upper floor. Room D is the pnncipal room. Room E contains foreign works. Catalogues are not absolutely required, as the painter's name is to be seen on each picture. On the ground floor are Modern Pictures and the Municipal Antiquities Museum open during the same hours as the picture galleries Catalogue 10 cents. Behind the Museum, in the Van Hogendorp's Plein, w^here a flower market is held every morning, is a statue of G. K. van Hogendorp, the founder of Dutch Independence (1813) Leaving the Museum and turning to the left up Boy- mans-straat, then to the right by the side of the canal to the Delft Gate, the tourist reaches The Zoological Gardens, in the Kruis straat (near the Central Station) tramways passing the entrance (admission 50 cents; guide book 25 cents). These gardens are of great extent and beauty, containing a fine collection of animals, birds, reptiles, etc., and well deserve a visit. During the summer first-class concerts are given in the Kiosque on Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 p.m. (Large cafe and restaurant.) Along the river on the west side of the town, a recently- developed quarter, are the Willems Plein and Willetns Kade, and in the latter may be visited The Maritime Museum, an interesting collection of curiosities from the East Indies, Africa, and Brazil, also exhibits illustrating the progress of navigation since the seventeenth century. Admission daily (except Monday), 10 to 4, 5 cents. A ramble through the western portion of the city leads to The Park, with its trim lawns, parterres, trees, concert 28 HOLLAND. rooms and crowds of little Dutch children, Here is a white marble statue of the Dutch poet and merchant, Hendrik '1 ollens. Occasionally the visitor will catch sight of a " garden-house," a peculiar institution of the Dutch, being a kind of summer-house, surrounded by small flower-beds where the proprietor can smoke his evening pipe in peace — for the citizens of Rotterdam are great smokers. In summer a military band plays on Sunday afternoons and evenings, and on Wednesday evenings. On the View Terrace, overlooking the busy river, is a large cafe and restaurant. The Dockyard is \^orth seeing; any respectable citizen can give an order for its inspection. The stern of the Royal Charles, captured by the Dutch in 1667, is still preserved here. The En^^lish Church is in the Haringvliet ; conspicuous over the entrance are the arms of Queen Anne and the Duke of Marlborough. This is the most commodious of the old English Continental churches. (See also p. 22.) To the east of the city are the Old and New Plantations, from which pleasant rambles may be made by the side of the river. Everywhere are seen canals, windmills, and bleaching grounds, for clothes-lines are unknown in Holland. The principal roadways, too, run almost level with tlie tops of the houses, and are lined with enormous windmills. The water of the Maas is not fit for drinking purposes, and travellers formerly were ol^liged to use some substitute. Now the water supply of the town is good, being brought in pipes from Kralingen, 20 miles from Rotterdam. At Delfshaven, a suburb of Rotterdam, a bronze plaque was placed in the Reformed Church (1906) to commemorate the sailing from that town of the Pilgrim Fathers on July 22, 1620. The " Mayflower " and " Speedwell " left Southampton for America on August 15, 1620. (See also p. 94). Rotterdam to Amsterdam via Gouda, 48 miles. LONDON TO ROSENDAAL. Travellers proceeding to Holland by the Queenboro* Route {b. p. 2) land at Flushing and proceed by train to Rosendaal, Dordrecht, Rotterdam, etc., the large railway station and Customs shed being close to the steamer quay. British Vice -Consul, P. de Bruyne. LONDON TO ROSENDAAL. 29 U.S. Consular Agent, Pieter F. Auer. Electric Trams to Middelburg in about J an hour ; Steam Trams to Domburg (via Koudekerke) in about i j hours. Steamers to Middelburg and Rotterdam daily ; to Breskens, Terneuzen, Hoedekenskerke and Zierikjee several times daily. Flushing (Dutch, Vlissingen) has a population of about 20,000 (Hotels, see pp. vii-viii) and is situated on the coast of the island of Walcheren at the mouth of the River Scheldt. Its harbour and docks are almost exclusively used in connection with the passenger traffic between England and Holland. The town is frequented to some extent by German families for sea-bathing in the summer. At Flushing there is little to detain the visitor. It is a clean and pleasant seaport town, nothing more, and is quite two miles from the railway station quay at which passengers are landed. It looks better inside than as you see it from the steamer passing up and down the Scheldt ; and Flushing is an improving place now that the docks, which have been built at an expenditure of two millions of money, are better known and more turned to account. A glance should be given at the statue of De Ruyter, the great Dutch Admiral, who was born in this town (1607), and who had the audacity to sail up the Thames and frighten the Londoners (1667) (i^^ also p. 31). It may be remembered also that Flushing was the place from which Philip II embarked (1559), never to leturn to the Netherlands ; that after Brielle it was the first place to rise up against the detested )oke of Alva and Spain (1572) ; and that at one time the illustrious Sir Philip S dney was its governor. In the year 1809 an expedition of 100,000 men, in nearly 150 vessels of various sizes, was sent by Lord Chatham to the island of Walcheren, and Flushing was bombarded — the town hall, two fine churches and over a hundred houses being destroyed. This was the only result of an expedition in which 7,000 British soldiers perished from fever, ague and similar causes. Flushing to Amsterdam via Gouda, 131 ?fiiles, „ „ , The Hague, \2,^\ miles. }} Terneuzen (British Consular Agent: J. A. van Rompu) a small fortified town at the mouth of the canal connecting Ghent with the Scheldt, is usually visited from Ghent (see Traveller's 30 HOLLAND. LONDON TO ROSENDAAL. 31 Guide to Belgium), from which it is distant 25 J miles by rail, but steamboats ply between Terneuzen and Hushing several times a day, occupying about i\ hours on the journey. TERNEUZEN TO 5ELZAETE AND CLINQE (BELGIUM). Distances (i) to Selzaete 10 miles, in 30 minutes ; (2) to Clinge 15 miles, in 35 min. Stations passed : (i) Sluiskii (Station), Sluiskil (Brug), Philippine, Sas-van-Gent (from Selzaete — Belgium Customs and time altered — the line continues to (ihent, etc.}. (2) Sluiskil, Axel, Kijkuit, Huist (from Clinge — Belgium Customs and time altered — the line continues to St. Nicolas, for Antwerp, Malines, Brussels, etc.). For steamers between Terneuzen and Flushing, see above. At Sas-van-Gent are situated the locks of the Ghent- Terneuzen canal. In the neighbourhood of Axel and Hiilst the peasants' costumes, particularly those of the women, are extremely picturesque. Distance from Flushing to Rosendaal about 46 miles in about \\ hours. Stations passed : Middellmrg (steamers to Flushing, Zierikzee and Rotterdam ; steam trams to Domburg ; electric trams to Flushing), Arnemuiden, Ncord Kraaijert, 's Heer Arendskerke, Goes, Kapelle-Biezelinge, Vlake, Krniningen-Ierseke, Krab- bendijke, Rilland-Bath, Woensdrecht, Bergen-op-Zoom (steam trams to Tholen or Antwerp), Wouw. In about a quarter of an hour after leaving Flushing by train the tourist arrives at Middelburg (pop. 19,300), the capital of Zeeland, a province which, like the greater part of Holland, lies below the level of the sea, and which has for its coat-of-arms a lion couchani and the appropriate motto Luctor et emergo. (Hotels, see pp. vii-viii). The railway station is beside the river or canal on which Middelburg stands, and there are tramways to Flushing and Domburg. Steamer to Zierikzee twice daily, to Rotterdam daily. In the park-like grounds outside the town are seen the gardens and pleasure houses in which respectable Dutchmen and their families rejoice. The. town is very clean and quiet, with few poor houses. Fine shops certainly do not abound, but the private houses in the principal street are well built and substantial. In the middle of the town is a square, on one side of which is the Town Hall, erected by Charles the Bold in 1468. It is one of the finest municipal buildings in Holland, and really worthy of a great city. Admission 25 cents. The exterior is adorned with twenty-five statues of Counts and Countesses of Flanders. Part of the interior is utilised as a meat market and police station. In the Cathedral, or New Church, are monuments of Johan Evertsen and other Dutch admirals. There is a fine chime of bells in the tower (280 ft. high). Splendid view from the top, extending as far as Antwerp in fine weather. The Abbey (may be viewed daily, 10 to 12 and 2 to 5), now occupied by the Provincial Council, contains some fine tapestries representing battles with the Spaniards. In connection with the history of Middelburg it should be noticed that the oldest Keur, or act of municipal incorpora- tion, in the provinces afterwards constituting the Dutch Republic was, writes Mr. Motley, that granted by William I of Holland and the Countess Joanna of Flanders, as joint proprietors of Wakheren, to the town of Middelburg. Its main purpose was to promise to the community law in place of arbitrary violence. This document, signed and sealed in 1253, has the merit of being the model upon which many other communities, cradles of great cities in Holland and Zeeland, were afterwards formed. It is to be seen in the Municipal Museum in the Town Hall {see above), which also contains the ropemaker's wheel turned by Admiral de Ruyter in his boyhood for a small sum per week {see also p. 29). Middelburg was one of the last cities Alva held in his grasp. It was the first to welcome the Earl of Leicester and the English. At a later period it was the residence of the clever Dutch spectacle maker, Hans Lippershey, who, in 1601, invented the telescope. The quiet, sleepy Dutch town is associated with Francis Johnson, with Robert Brown (familiar with 32 English prisons), with Henry Jacob, who founded at Southwark the first Independent Church in London, and other immediate pre- cursors of the Pilgrim Fathers. The quaint costumes of the rural population of Zeeland « S restored. Entrance through the sacristan's house T^I^''^S::S^^'^ on the^ror Srapse U aSet fo the memory of Lieutenant Western SlU'at Moordych in X793. The choir space is qnite as la^ge as that reserved for the congregation, in which there are tree .Mtq. seats at ■; cents and seats at 10 cents. ReiSng and following the tram-lines through W.jnstraa^ Kejoining d |j j t^ g statue to Ary Scheffer, I«ssmg, m the Scheflas ria ^ ^^^^ Poort (an ancient the painter (J79S:»»5») tne ur ^^^^ f^ ^too iJth^iSr isthTM«seum\ud.Dordrech^ SilSn d£>- except Monday. ,0-4 (Oct. to March ,0-3) DORDRECHT. 37 20 cents ; Sundays lo cents. Catalogue 25 cents. Here is a small gallery of pictures by modern artists, also a collection of Dordrecht antiquities, including several old Bible?, weapons, coins, uniforms, models of ships, medals, &c. On the ground floor is an old Dutch room reconstituted. Retracing our steps and crossing the Nieubrug and following the Voorstraat (right) and then the Nieuwstraat we arrive at the Dordrecht Museum, in Museum Straat, a large one storied building, opened in 1904, containing the municipal collection of ancient and modern paintings. Open daily 10-4. Admission 10 cents ; free on Sundays to townsfolk ; catalogue 15 cents. Comprises (on the ground floor — left) an Ary Scheff'er Museum and (right) several rooms with paintings by various masters. On the ist floor (left) is the remainder of the Scheffer collection and other rooms. The adjoining building is The South African Museum (opened in 1902) containing relics of the Boer War. Open daily 10 to 4 ; admission 20 cents ; catalogue 30 cents. In three rooms on the ground floor are portraits of Boer Generals, bust of President Kriiger, his Sword of Honour, Boer newspapers, etc. On the first floor in six rooms are Maps, Natural History and Ethno- graphical collections, Photographs, Ambulances and Weapons. At the end of the Hovikade, by the side of the Oude Maas, is an old gateway dated 1652. In the Nieuwekerksplein is the Nieuwekerk, a brick building now (1912) being restored. The Old Catholic Church v'Eglise Gallicane) in the Voorstraat dates from about 1840. DORDRECHT TO ARNHEM OR NIJMEGEN. Distance to (i) Arnhem 65I miles in 2 hours 20 min. ; to (2) Nijmegen 62i miles in a few minutes less time. To either place -by steamer from Rotterdam, see p. 23. Principal stations passed : Sliedrecht^ Hardiftxveld-Giessen- dam^ Gorinchem^ Arkel^ Leer dam ^ Beesd, Geldermalsen (junction for Utrecht, north, and 's Hertogenbosch, south), Wadenoijeriy Ttei, Echteld^ Kesteren (junction for Amersfoort), Hemmen-Dodewaardy Zetten-Andelst^ Valburg, Fork. 38 HOLLAND. (i) Northwards to Elst, Oosterheek (Laag) ; (2) Southwards to Ressen-Bemme/, Lent. Qorinchem (or Gorcum,) is a busy little town of about 12,000 inhabitants, with a number of picturesque 15th- 17th century gabled houses, interesting to antiquarians. The neighbourhood is attractive to landscape-painters. Steamers to Dordrecht, Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Vianen, Sleeuwijk, Woudricheai daily ; to 's Hertogenbosch, Tiel, Zalt-Bommel, Heusden, Leerdam daily, except Sundays ; and to Asperen Mondays. Close to Woudrichem, on the other side of the river Maas is Loevenstein Castle, in which Hugo Grotius was condemned to imprisonment for life in 1619. By the help of his wife, he escaped in a book-chest on the 21st March, 162 r. From Tiel (British Vice-Consul, C. W. Dresselhuys, jun.), a very old town, with at present about 10,000 inhabitants, steamers may be tak6n to Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Arnhem, 's Hertogenbosch, Gorincliem, Lith, Lobith. Steam tram to Culemborg. For Arnhem and Nijmegen see pp. 112 and 115. DORDRECHT TO ROTTERDAM (Beurs). Distance iij miles, in 20 min. Stations passed : Zwijndrecht^ Barer drecht^ Ijselmonde^ Fijtnoord. Another route about the same distance is via Pijnacker, by electric overhead railway (in 25-30 min.). Trains arrive first at the Beurs station (Rotterdam) and continue to the Delftsche Poort or Central station about half a mile through the town. Here begins the Holland Railway line. For description of Rotterdam see pp. 24-28. ROTTERDAM TO THE HAGUE (and Scheveningen). Distance 15 miles, in about 20-30 min. Stations passed : Schiedam^ Kethel, Delft, Bijswijk. Starting from the Beurs Railwiy Station, by the Exchange, or from the Holland Railway {Hollandsche Spoonveg) Station, outside the Delft Gate. After passing Oud Delf shaven and numerous canals, the first station is Schiedam ; the town (p. 22), with its windmills and distilleries, lies to the left. (Electric tramway to Rotterdam.) DELFT. DELFT. 39 Post and Telegraph Office, in the Hypolitusbuurt. Steam Tramways from the Rotterdamsche Poort through the town to the Haagpoort, also to the Hague via Rijswijk to De Lier and Maassluis. Steamers to Rotterdam via Overschie several times a day. Delft (pop. 34,000), a town that once headed the pottery trade, with its Delft ware, is on the Schie. Visitors are not now allowed to inspect the Delft ware factory in Osteinde, between the Nieuwe Kerk and the Oostpoort. There are numerous interesting sixteenth and seventeenth- century buildings. Turning to the left on leaving the station the Binnen Water- sloot is soon reached on the right. This leads at right-angles to the tram lines which run by the side of the Oude Delft. Following the tram lines and the Oude Delft (left) a few minutes brings the visitor to the Prinsenhof, opposite the Oude Kerk. The Prinsenhof (restored) is now occupied on the first floor by the Qemeente Museum (admission daily, Apl.-Oct. 10-4; Oct.-Apl, 10-3, except Sundays and holidays, 25 cents; on Wednesdays, 10 cents) containing paintings, prints, medals, coins, banners, plans. Admission to the ground floor Historical Room is free. This was formerly the dining-room into which William the Silent was carried, and in which he died after being shot by Balthasar Gerard, loth July, 1584. The tragedy occurred on the staircase leading to the first floor, and the spot is marked by an inscription. Opposite the Prinsenhof is the Oude Kerk, a Gothic build- ing, tickets for admission (20 cents) to which are obtained at No. 5, Oude Kerkstraat close by. Having obtained the ticket, which includes a printed description in English, French or Dutch, it must be taken to No. 9 in the same street, whence the visitor will be conducted inside the church. Very high roof; whitewashed interior; fine organ; i6th century carved pulpit. In the church are monuments of Admiral Pieter Pieterszoon Hein (1578-1629), celebrated for having captured the Spanish fleet ; of Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp (1598-1653) who defeated the English in 1652 and was killed 40 HOLLAND. at Terheide ; of Elisabeth Morgan (n/e Marnix) ; of Antony van Leeuwenhoek, the naturalist (1632-1723) who was born and died at Delft. The Nieuwe Kerk (138 1) is in the Groote Markt. Tickets of admission, including a printed description in English, French, or Dutch, 25 cents, obtainable at No. 45, Groote Markt. . Take this to the Sacristan, at No. 79, who opens the church. Has, like the Oude Kerk, a very high roof (tower 375 ft. high) and whitew^ashed walls and pillars. The choir is not enclosed. In this church is the mausoleum of William I, Prince of Orange (1533-84) whose eflfigy is in white marble. His faithful dog is also sculptured in white marble at his feet. In the vaults underneath are the remains of a number of princes and princesses of the House of Orange. The church also contains the monuments of William 1(1772-1843); of Prince William Frederick George (d. 1799) by Canova and of Hugo Grotius, who was born at Delft, 1583, and died at Rostock, 1645. To the last-named is attached a crown presented by the United States on the occasion of the Peace Conference at the Hague in 1890. A plain tombstone in the floor indicates Grotius's burial-place and his statue stands in the centre of the Groote Markt. The Stadhuis or Town Hall (may be visited — gratuity) is opposite. The National Arsenal is close to the Rotterdamsche Poort. In the cemetery just outside the Haagpoort (see p. 39) at the opposite end of the town is buried William Naundorff (died at Delft in 1845) who claimed to be the son of Louis XVL A new museum of applied art called the Huis Lambert van Meerten, near the Prinsenhof, was opened in 1909. Admission daily free. \From Delft to the Hague the traveller will find it an agreeable variation to take the Steam Tram {see p. 39) along the Canal, of Roman origin, connecting the Rhine and Maas.] Leaving Delft by train, the country is very pleasant — well sprinkled with villas and gardens and rural hamlets. The spire of Rijswijk Church is seen on the right. Hard by an obelisk (erected 1792) marks the spot where once stood a house of the Prince of Orange, in which the representatives of England, France, Holland, Germany and Spain signed th§ celebrated treaty of 1697. Then the short journey ends at PUBUO BUILDINOa, Ite. fi. BiBBOllMf B O 7. 0«TUifMipoort . B 9. Uhnrj, Bi^al . C la MMfitelivia . . C IL 0«T«nuB«&t OAoes B 1& PalaMof Um ., PriuM EUndrik 14. StablM, &oy«l 15. TlMfttr* . IC T^mnHall 17. Stfttion, Holland B*ilwmy IS. Stafckm, BUm BaA- "«^J . . D 19. Wai«m'i Ptek B C 1, n. Zoological Q*rdensD 2. 23. Fori Ofloo B 8, 24. Telegraph Office . C SS. Oranje Barrack* . O 26. OaTAliy Barraekt . C 27. Panorama . B '■'i.' K.roluLsicn.uratti-ci.f^riinbiu-^j \ U^uLr, THE HAGUE. 41 THE HAGUE. (Hotels, see pp. vii-vii) Railway Stations.— The 5taats Spoorweg (State Railway) for German and some Dutch destinations; the Hollandsche Spoorweg (Holland Railway) for all Dutch destinations between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Belgium, France, etc. Good buffets at both stations. Taxi-Cabs. For 1000 metres 50 cents, plus 10 cents for each 500 metres beyond ; double at night (between midnight and 6 a.m.). Post Office, 4 and 5 Kerkplein near the Groote Kerk. Open from 7.50 a.m. till 9.50 p.m. Sundays and holidays 8.50 a.m. till T.50 p.m. Telegraph Office, adjoining the Post Office (2 Prinsestraat). Open day and night. H.B.M. Minister.— Hon. Sir Alan Johnstone, G.C.V.O. Vice- Consul. — Gerrit Barger. United States Minister.— A. M. Beaupre, Esq. Electric Tramways (15 routes) from the State and Holland Railway Stations and the Plein : single fare 7^ cents. Steam Tramways to Scheveningen, starting from either Railway Station ; to Rijswijk and Delft from Huygensplein ; to Voorburg, Voorschoten, Leyden from the Schenkweg ; to the Hook of Holland via Loosduinen, Poeldijk and s'Gravenzande from Lijnbaan ; to Maaslandsche Dam and Maassluis via Poeldijk. Motor- bus service to Wassenaar, 50 c. (Hotel, see pp. vii-viii). Theatre Royal, in the Korte Voorhout, French Operas on Monday, Thursday and Saturday ; Dutch Plays on Tuesday and Friday, 7 p.m. Theatres of Varieties : Scala, Wagen- straat 34 ; Palace of Arts and Sciences, 7, Zwarteweg ; Apollo, 10, Spuistraat; Flora, 79, Wagenstraat. Music Hall.— Palace, i8-i8a, Wagenstraat (Cafe Concert). Concert Halls.— Diligentia, 5, Lange Voorhout ; "Haagsche Kunstring," 13, Herrengracht. English Church.— Church of Saints John and Philip, Van den Bosch Straat. Sunday Services at 11 a.m. and 7.30 or 8 p.m. American Church. — 44, Prinsestraat. Sunday Services ^t 1 1 a.m. during July and August. 42 HOLLAND. I French Church, 25 Noordeinde. Sunday Services at lo.o a.m. and 2.30 p.m. from September to June, lo.o a.m. only from June to September. Concerts in the summer in the Bois, on Sunday afternoons and Wednesday evenings (see p. 53) ; in the Zoological and Botanic Gardens on Monday and Friday evenings. Qolf course ) 9 holes.) Swimmins: Baths, &c., 4 Mauritskade. Open daily in summer from 7 a.m. till 6.30 p.m., Saturday evenings 7.30-10. Sundays 7 till 12. Principal Sights. Binnenhof, the, p. 45. Cathedral, the, p. 47. Cloister Church, the, p. 48. Gevangenpoort, the, week-days, 10 to 4; Sundays and Holidays, 1 2.30 to 4 ; free ; p. 46. Haagsche Bosch, the, p. 52. Huis-ten Bosch, the, p. 53. Mesdag Museum, week-days 10 to 3, 4 or 5 ; Sundays and Holidays, 12.30 to 3, 4 or 5. Admission 25 cents, P- 51- Municipal (Gemeente) Museum, week-days, 10 to 3, 4, or 5 ; Sundays, i to 3, p. 51. Museum Meermanno Westreenianum. First and third Thursday in each month, by ticket, p. 50. Museum, Royal (Paintings, etc.), week-days 10 to 3, 4 or 5, free ; Sundays and Holidays, 12 to 3, 4 or 5, p. 48. (Maurltshuis.) Palace of the Queen, and other Palaces, p. 52. The Steengracht Collection (Paintings), 10 to 4 ; Sundays, 12 to 4 ; in winter, 2 to 4 ; fee, i gulden ; p. 50. Royal Library, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (10 to 3 in winter), Sundays and holidays excepted, p. 51- Willem's Park, the, p. 52. Zoological Botanic Gardens, daily. Admission 50 cents, p. 52. In the Environs. Bosch, the, p. 53. Rijswijk, p. 56. Scheveningen, p. 54. About six centuries ago the Counts of Holland built themselves a hunting-seat half a mile from the sea-shore, and Voorburg, p. 56. Westland, p. 56. Delft, p. 39. THE HAGUE. 43 from the hedge (Hage) surrounding the Park the adjacent village took its name ; and this was the origin of the Hague. (Dutch, Den Haag or 's Grave nhage ; French, La Haye.) The Stadtholders made the Hague their permanent residence after Prince Maurice improved and embellished the place early in the seventeenth century. But it did not rank as a town till Louis Buonaparte gave it municipal rights, during his reign as King of Holland. Though long accounted a mere village, it was a village of no ordinary importance, and was called "the largest village in Europe." From the foundation of the Republic of the United Provinces the States General have assembled here. Here the ambassadors from England and other countries have resided, and the fortunes of European nations have often turned upon the plots, counterplots and cabals of diplomatists at the Hague. To Englishmen the town is, on many accounts, specially interesting. To the Hague, in 161 8, came some of the most distinguished of the English divines, who were received with great distinction and hospitality by the States General. Hither came Brownists and other sectaries when Laud was trampling on Dissent. Here, when Cromwell ruled in England, Charles H and Buckingham and the rest of his courtiers waited the turn of events and equivocated with the Scotch Commissioners. A few years pass, and again English- men are flocking to the Hague, begging Prince William of Orange to accept the crown of their misgoverned country. There was a good deal of dirty work done at the Hague then. The statesmen of that day had not particularly clean hands. William of Orange looked upon France as his mortal foe, and cared to be King of Britain only so far as in that contest he might be able to wield the power of this country on his side. Here the nobles and churchmen were chiefly anxious to make a good bargain for themselves. Burnet, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury, and the most veracious chronicler of the scandal and gossip of the time, had early taken up a position at the Hague. But others followed — some, like William Penn, to claim a larger tolerance than it was the fashion of that age to grant ; but all for some cause or other, to avenge private wrongs or to promote the public weal, anxious that the misgovernment of the Stuart dynasty should cease. There were grand doings at the Hague when the Prince of 44 HOLLAND. Orange visited his people as King of England. Triumphal arches, reviews of the armed burghers, fireworks and other festal arrangements kept the place alive while William held the Congress which was to settle the grand alliance against France. The Hague was the birthplace of William HI, also of Johannes Secundus, whose Latin verses have attained some notoriety ; and of Huygens, the inventor of pendulum clocks. It is a curious fact that many of our English wits have • been attached to embassies at the Hague. "Monk" Lewis, who was there when a gay coterie of French Aristocrats, who had escaped from Paris during the Revolution, made it a temporary residence, complains in his letters to his mother of the dulness of the place. As an illustration, he tells her : " An unfortunate Irishman, known by the name of Lord Kerry, being the other night at one of the Dutch assemblies, and quite overcome with its stupidity, yawned so terribly that he fairly dislocated his jaw. It was immediately set again, but he has suffered much from the accident, and is still confined by it to his bed. He is a man of upwards of fifty, and consequently must have been frequently ennuye before ; but such peculiar enmti was more than he had bargained for or had power to resist." A century previously had here resided, as secretary at the Hague, Matthew Trior, who, from living with his uncle at a tavern in Charing Cross, rose to be the friend of Halifax and Dorset and Harley and St. John, and was buried at West- minster Abbey. It was at the Hague, also, our great statesman Sir William Temple cultivated, in his moments of leisure, that art of gardening of which his grounds at Sheen at a later period of life were such brilliant examples. Here also the polite Chesterfield was an ambassador. General Conway, whose amusing letters are still one of the charms of Walpole's corre- spondence, says of the place in 171 t, and the description is still appropriate : " It looks like a capital, and is very pretty, but the society savours more of a large county town." A later hero, though rather in a parliamentary than in a military sense, Tom Duncombe, M.P., seems to have enjoyed himself very well at the Hague. He was here in 1813, as one of the junior officers of the Coldstream Guards. He notes his approval of the Hollander's cookery, and the "plenty of hock, champagne and claret," and states he was " sorry to leave the Hague." . . t. u tt • One of the best anecdotes in connection with the Hague is THE HAGUE. 45 that of Lord Stair. It appears that when he was ambassador here he endeavoured to keep \ip the character of his country for hospitality, and the other diplomatists did the same. On one occasion Stair was dining at the Abbe de Villes. The French Ambassador gave as his toast, " The rising sun, my master," alluding to the device and motto of Louis. The Austrian Ambassador then gave " The moon," in compliment to his Empress Queen. The turn then came to the Earl of Stair, who was quite equal to the occasion. He drank to his master, King William, by the name of "Joshua, the son of Nun, who made the siTn and moon stand still." The Hague is considered by most to be the prettiest and pleasantest place in Holland (pop. 270,000). Its shops are handsome, its streets are broad and clean. It has a fine park, with a royal residence, and the environs are very agreeable. It is the abode of royalty and the headquarters of government. The streets are nearly all spacious and commodious, lined on both sides with clean level trottoirs made of yellow bricks. Its principal squares are nearly in the centre of the town. " The Hague and its immediate neighbourhood," said a Dutch author, "has a tree, a flower and a bird for each of its 160,000 inhabitants." The Qrachten, as the Dutch term the canals, are embel- lished with trees ; and so are the Voorhout, the Vijverberg:, and other streets and squares. Behind many of the dwelling- houses, small as well as large, are carefully cultivated gardens. , ^ , ., ,■ j • The Binnenhol is the irregular block of buildings, dating from various epochs, round an open space beside the Vijver- berg Here was held the 2nd International Peace Conference, beginning 15th June, 1907 (Hall of the Knights). The Gothic Hall on the east side of the place (see p. 46) is the most ancient buildine in the city, as it originally formed a portion of the palace" of the Counts of Holland. Open daily I 30 to 3.30 p.m. free. At other times gratuity ; ring bell. It has a good painted roof, similar in construction to that of Westminster Hall. In front of the steps a strange tragedy happened one bright May morning in 1619, "when the white swans were sailing tranquilly, to and fro over the silver basin— when the blackbird and the thrush, and the nightingales which haunted the surrounding groves were sing- ing as if the daybreak were to usher in a summer festival. 46 HOLLAND. THE HAGUE. 47 It is to see the great Barneveld lay down his venerable head on the block that yon crowd collects so early this summer morn. As he walks along, we hear him say, 'Oh God, what does man come to ! This, then, is the reward of forty years' service to the State ! ' Let us pause, and see the bitter end. He kneels while his attendant prays a quarter of an hour. He then rises, and with a loud voice exclaims, *Men, do not believe that I am a traitor to my country. I have ever acted uprightly and royally, as a patriot, and as such I shall die. Then drawing the cap over his eyes, and stepping forward, he says, * Christ sl.all be my guide ; O Lord, m^ Heavenly Father, receive my spirit ! ' And now he kneels, with his head towards his own house ; and bidding the executioner be quick, at a single blow the head is separated from the body, and there is an end of John of Barneveld, Advocate of. Holland, whose errors were venial, and whose virtues great ; whose sole crime was, in fact, that he was in advance of his age. Such was the high pitch of heroic virtue to which the long struggle with Spain had strung the Dutchmen of that day, that his wife and children refused to sue for his pardon, though they received an invitation to do so, with assurance of its success. He was innocent, and to ask for pardon would be to acknowledge his guilt." ' The two chambers of the Parliament of Holland (the States General) are also in the Binnenhof. The public are admitted to the First Chamber (there are 50 members) north side, free on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, i to 4. To the Second Chamber (100 members) south side, on Monday and Thursday, II to I, free. At other times gratuity. During Parhament sittings the gallery in both chambers is open to the public. The Treves Saloon (has a curious echo) may also be inspected. Open daily 9 to 5 free. From the Buitenhof (bronze statue of William H.), a large open space adjoining the Binnenhof, a passage leads to the Qevangenpoort, an ancient tower with a gateway, the place in which Cornelius de Witt was imprisoned in 1672, and before which he and his brother John, the Grand Pensionary, were torn in pieces by an infuriated mob on the 20th August of that year. Cf. The Black Tulip, A. Dumas, 1 "On the Track of the Pilgrim Fathers,' by J. E. Ritchie; published in All the World Over. ch. iv. (The House of De Witt, the first statesman of his age, is seen in the Kneuterdijk ; that of Oldenbarnevelt is incor- porated in the Ministry of Finance in the Lange Voorhout.) The old prison now contains a collection of instruments of torture, &c. Admission daily,^io to 4; Sundays and Holidays, 12.30 to 4, free, but gratuity expected by attendant, who gives explanations in English, French and German. The Qroote Kerk, or Church of St. James, between the Post Office and the Fish Market ( Visch Markt) is a Gothic erection, dating from the beginning of the fifteenth century. Admission, 25 cents each person ; the sacristan is to be found at 8 Kerkplein a few doors from the Post Office. The walls of the hexagonal steeple (365 feet in height) are the only parts of the original structure. In the interior are several monuments of Dutch celebrities, and a large new organ built in 1 88 1. The view of the city and environs from the tower well repays a visit. Charles Y assisted in the restoration of this cathedral in 1547, at which time the painted window by Crabek, in the choir, was added. The church w^as transferred to the Protestants in 1715. On the 7th February, 1901, the young Queen Wilhelmina was married to Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The civil ceremony took place in the Noordeinde Palace, before the Minister of Justice, and the religious ceremony was per- formed in the Groote Kerk. The title of Prince of the Netherlands was conferred on the bridegroom, with the right to be called Royal Highness. In the Nieuwe Kerk (Gedempte Spui) are the tombs of Spinoza (statue erected in 1880 close to the house, 32 Pavil- joens-Gracht. in which he lived during the last few years of his life) and the brothers Jean and Cornelis de Witt (see p. 46). The first-named was born at Amsterdam in 1632 ; the latter were both killed by the populace under the impres- sion that they were guilty of a conspiracy against the life of William III. Adjoining the Buitenhof on the east side of the Visch Markt is the Stadhuis or Town Hall, a picturesque building of red brick striped with stone, the fa9ade being ornamented with carving and statues. Dating from 1565, it was enlarged in 48 HOLLAND. 1647, and again in 1883. Admission free, from 12.30 to 1.30 on Thursday and Saturday. In the Kloster Kerk (Cloister Church) in the Voorhout may be seen the tomb of Margaret of Cleves, wife of Albert of Bavaria. The cloisters were used as an asylum by French Protestant families, when the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes forced them to flee from France. There are several other churches and chapels of various denominations in the Hague. The Royal Museum and Picture Gallery is situated in the Mauritshuis, Korte Vijverberg, erected by Prince Maurice of Nassau, in 1644, and rebuilt after a fire in 1718. It is open daily from 10 a.m. to 3, 4 or 5 p.m. ; Sundays, half-past 12 to 3, 4 or 5 P.M. Admission free. Abridged catalogue m Enghsh (iQio) by Dr. Martin, 15 cents. This important and splendid collection contams, m five rooms on the ground floor and eleven rooms on the first floor, c:oo paintings, principally of the Dutch school, many of which are lent by Dr. A. Bredius, who was Director until 1909. The Italian, Spanish and French schools are represented by seventy paintings, the Flemish by foriy, and the German by thirty. Rembrandt is represented by sixteen paintings, Rubens by five, Van Dyck and Holbein each by three admirable portraits. Van der Meer and the Ruysdaels by fine landscapes. The most celebrated pictures are the " School of Anatomy," by Rembrandt, No. 146; "Susanna bathing" by Rembrandt, No 147 • ^'Simeon in the Temple," by Rembrandt, No. 145, m Room vill on the first floor ; " View of Delft," by Jan Vermeer, of Delft, No. 92, in Room IX; and Paul Potter's "Young Bull " life size. No. 136, in Room X on the first floor. The entire right wall of Room VHI is occupied with works by Rembrandt, and amongst other masterpieces are examples by Jan Steen, Adrian Van der Veide, Ruysdael, Adrian Van Ostade Van Dyck, Van der Meer, Gerard Don, Rubens, Holbein, Murillo, Velasquez, Tintoretto, P. Veronese, C. Lorraine, Salvator Rosa, Guido Reni. . . , , The following is a list of some of the principal works alphabetically arranged :— 6 William III returning from Ergland Z. Backhuisen. 14 Traveller attacked by brigands . . N. Berchem 1 2 Boar Hunt ^'^^'^• THE HAGUE. 49 No. 585, 19 Portraits of Vice-Admiral de Ruyter and his Son F. BoL 253 Adam and Eve in Paradise (Figures by Rubens) /. Brueghel. 176 Unwelcome News G. ter Borch. 22 Massacre of the Innocents Cornelius Van Haarlem, 33 Woman with Lamp, Child in Cradle . . . G, Dou, 239 & 240 Portraits of a Gentleman and a Lady . A. Van Dyck. 242 Quintin Simons, Painter, of Antwerp . . . Ibid, 48 Fruit . . . . . . J. D. de Heem 54 Portrait of Paul Potter . . , B. Van der Heist, 66 Porch, with Lady and Dog . 5. Van Hoogstraien. 78 Burgomasters of Amsterdam arranging the Reception of Mary de Medici . 77 Full Length Portrait of a Gentleman . 87 Landscape and Hay Cart . 106 Boy Blowing Bubbles 108 The Painter and his Wife . 557 A Proposal of Marriage 129 The Violinist . . . 136 The Young: Bull, chef-d'oeuvre of 137 & 138 Two Landscapes, with Animals 146 Professor Tulp's Anatomical Lesson 145 Simeon in the Temple . 147 Susanna Bathing: . 148 Portrait of the Painter 556 Portrait of Rembrandt's Mother 707 Andromeda .... i53» J 54, i55» 534, 728 Landscapes 159 Lady at her Toilet . 162 Venus and Doves 158 William III of England . 258 Dead Game (Figure by van Dyck ?) 169 The Painter's Family 664 Country Fair .... 167 The Sick Girl .... 165 The Quack Doctor . 166 The Poultry Yard . 168 The Doctor's Visit . 260 Kitchen 261 Alchemist and Laboratory . 197 Landscape and Cattle T. de Keyser, Ibid. J. Lingelbach. F. van Mieris. Ibid, A. Van Ostade, Ibid. Paul Potter. Ibid. Rembrandt, Ibid. Ibid. Ibid, Ibid, 3id, J. Ruisdael. G. Schalcken. Ibid. Ibid. F. Snijders. ./. Steen. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid, Ibid, Ibid. D. Teniers. Ibid, Van de Velde. s so HOLLAND. 198 Coast Scene 201 Seascape . 203 Old Church at Delft . 209 Flight into Egypt 208 Portrait of a Gentleman 218 The Hay Cart 214 Arrival at the Stable . 215 Departure from the Stable 219 Battle Piece IV. Fan de Velde. H. a van Vliet. A. Van der Werff, Ibid. P, Wottwerman. . Jbid. . Ibid. . Ibid. Amongst the paintings by foreign following : — 333 Prometheus and Vulture . 335 Sisyphus .•••;• 278 Portraits of Jane Seymour (copy) 277 Man and Falcon .... 296 Virgin and Child . . . • 325 Cupid (copy) 250 & 251 Portraits of his First and Second 252 Portrait of his Confessor . 254 Venus and Adonis (copy) . 336 The Virgin Mary 292 & 293 Landscapes. . • artists are the . Z. Giordano. . Ibid, , Holbein. Ibid. Murillo. . Guido Reni. Wives . Rubens. Ibid. Ibid. . Sassojerrato. . C.J. Vernet. At No 3 Prinsessegracht is the Industrial Arts Museum with specimens of weaving, porcelain, ironwork etc. Admission 25 cents (12 to 4 or 5) ; Sundays and holidays free (12 to 4)- The Museum Meermanno Westreenianum (30 Prinsessegracht), bequeathed to the State at the death of the Baron of VVestreenen, contains MSS. old books, blocks, a collection of about 10,000 coins, numerous Etruscan and Egyptian antiquities, and many specimens of Byzantine and early Italian art. Admission, free on the first and third Thursday of every month by ticket. The Steengracht Museum of Baron Steengracht van Duivenvoorde, in Lange Vijverberg, is well worth inspection. It contains a valuable and choice collection, chiefly of Dutch and Flemish paintings, by Rembrandt, Rubens, Van der Werff, Van de Velde, Cuyp, Paul Potter, Van Ostade, G. Dou, Gerome, Meissonier', Horace Vernet, Decamps, etc. Admission from 10 to 4; Sundays 12 to 4, in winter 2 to 4. m the THE HAGUE. 51 absence of the owner. Fee, i gulden. The modem pictures of the Dutch and French schools are exhibited in Room I ; the ancient paintings in Rooms II and III. The Municipal Museum (Gemeente Museum), 7, Korte Vijverberg ; admission free from 10 to 3, 4 or 5 on week-days, I to 4 Sundays and holidays. Contains a collection of glass, porcelain, medals, antiquities, armour, military weapons, and an interesting gallery of old and modern paintings, including many historical portraits. Catalogues of the paintings, French and Dutch, 25 c. ; and of the lOther collections, 25 cents, in Dutch. The Mesdag: Museum not far from the north side valuable collection of works of the French, Dutch and painter, H. W. Mesdag, to cents ; week-days i o to 4, to 4. Catalogue in English at No. 7, Laan van Meerdervoort, of the Willem's Park, contains a of art, and of modern masterpieces Italian Schools, presented by the the State in 1903. Admission, 25 or 5 ; Sundays and holidays 12.30 (1906) 60 cents. This, the finest modern picture gallery in the country, comprises 350 paintings in eight rooms. On the ground floor, in three rooms, are water colours, pastels, paintings, Chinese, Japanese, and Persian vases, bronzes, atid Flemish tapestry. On the first floor, in five rooms, are many examples of the Barbizon School by Millet, Dupri, Troyon, Carol, Delacroix, Rousseau and others. Also examples by Mesdag, Blommers, Breitner, Gabriel, Maris, Mauve, Courbet, Israels, De Haas, etc. The Royal Library (34, Lange Voorhout) is open to the public from 10 to 4 (in winter 10 to 3) daily, excepting Sundays and holidays, and on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings, 7 to 10. It contains 500,000 volumes, including the Prayer Books of Catherine de Medici, Catharine of Arragon and Isabella of Castile (1450) ; a Bible with an inscription written by the wife of William III : ** Presented to the King and I at our (frownation. Marie R." There is also a collection (open daily except Satunlay and Sunday, 10 to 4 ; winter 10 to 3) of 40,000 coins and medals and 300 cameos, many of them very antique and fine. Valuable also is the collection of Assyrian £ 2 52 HOLLAND. ylinders, and of Greek and Etruscan scarabaeu Tlie official catalogue gives a full description of every object in the col- lection. A monument to commemorate the birth of Princess Juliana (30th April, 1909) was unveiled by Prince Henry of the Netherlands on 20th September, 1910, in the Juliana van StoUbergplein, not far from the State Railway Station. Brief mention may be made of other public buildings, such as The Colonial Office, the Ministry of Justice, the War Office, and the handsome edifice containing the State Archives, all situated on the Plein, on the east side of the Mauritshuis, the chief centre of traffic, where electric tramcars start for Scheveningen, and where the tramways from the railways intersect. In and near the Hague are several palaces and royal seats. Admission, tickets as for the Huis-ten Bosch (see p. 53). The Royal Palace of the Queen is in the Noordeinde. It contains a collection of family paintings (admission by ticket, 50 c, obtainable see p. 53). That of the Queen Mother (not open to the public) faces the Lange Voorhout. The Palace of the late King, William II. (d. 1849), »" ^^^^ Kneuterdijk, contains some fine pictures; but most of the once famous collection were sold at their owner's death in 1850. Not open to the public. The Zoological - Botanic Gardens. — Open daily, admission 50 cents, contains a good collection of animals, birds, plants, etc. Concerts held on Mondays in June, Mondays and Fridays in July and August, Fridays in September, at 7.30 p.m., and on Sundays 2 p.m. in winter. (Good Cafe Restaurant.) Near the Zoological Gardens is the beautiful Haasrsche Bosch, a forest of lovely avenues, in the centre of which is a select restaurant, admission only by an introduction from the Litteraire Societeit. Band on Sunday afternoons and Wednesday evenings. The visitor who lingers at the Hague will also notice the Willcm's Park, with its villas and National Monument to Restoration of Dutch Independence in November, 181 3 ; monument to the Duke Charles Bernard of Saxe Weimar THE HAGUE 53 (d. 1862) ; statue of the Queen Mother in the Regentesseplein (1905); the statues of William the Taciturn, in the Noord- einde and Plein ; and of William II, in the Buitenhof ; the flower market in the Prinsegracht on Mondays and Fridays ; the vegetable market, as lively as a fair on Saturday evenings ; the fish market, with tame storks walking about and retiring at pleasure into their little house; the cannon foundry, dating from 1665, i» the Nieuwe Uifleg ; and various shops for the sale of foreign curiosities, lace, porcelain, antiquities, etc. Environs of the Ha^^ue. About half an hour's walk along the road to Leyden is the Palace in the Wood (Huis-ten Bosch), a Royal villa erected in 1647, the scene of the International Peace Conference in 1899. It is a charming spot. The route thither is through bright green woods and shady avenues, intersected with the ever-present canal. Opposite is a statue of Prince Frederick Henry presented to the Qut en by the Emperor of Germany in 1907. In the palace are handsome rooms, splendidly furnished, with some remarkable frescoes, the work of Jordaens and other artists. The walls are adorned with satin needlework hangings, and the floors with costly needle- work carpets. The Billiard Room contains family portraits by Vafi Dyck, Netscfur, etc. The Oranje Zaal (Orange Saloon) was erected by the grandmother of William III. The paintings in it are in honour of Prince Frederick Henry of Orange, husband of the founder. The Dining Room, Chinese Room, and Japanese Rooms contain pictures, porcelain, tapestry, cabinet, plants, &c. Open daily, 9 to 4, 50 cents ; tickets of admission at van Stockum and Zoon, Buitenhof 36; van Hoogstraten, 27 Plaats. The Bosch, or Wood, is a forest of about 2| miles in length and half a mile broad. It is thickly covered with magnificent trees, and intersected by many fish-ponds, lanes and pleasant walks and drives. In the centre is a large restaurant with garden belonging to the Litteraire Societeit, It is a very pleasant retreat ; and on Sunday afternoons and Wednesday evenings a military band plays {see also p. 52). The Palace of Peace, the proposed Palace for the International Court of Arbitration is being erected at Zorgvleit 54 HOLLAND. to the north of the Bosch, at the beginning of the old Scheveningen road, reached by tram. Towards the cost of this Palace Mr. Andrew Carnegie is contributing 1,500,000 dollars (;^3O0,ooo). The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone was performed on 30th July, 1907, by iM. Nelidoff, president of the Peace Conference. A site about 13^ acres in extent has been chosen, and the Palace is being built according to the plans of M. Louis Cordonnier, of Lille. On the foundation stone, which will be on the noith side of the Palace when completed, is the following inscription : — PACI JUSTITIA FIRMANDAE HANC AEDEM ANDREiE CARNEGIE MUNIFICENTIA DEDICAVIT. Great Britain's contribution to the building lakes the form of stained glass windows for the Great Hall of Justice. The Palace is to be officially opened in September, 191 3. The first International Peace Conference was held at the Hague in 1899 in the Orange Saloon of the Huis-ten Bosch {see p. 53)-the first sittmg taking place on May l8th and the last on July 29lh. Russia's proposals for the limitation of armaments were not accepted. Other conferences were held in 1893, 1894, and 1900, dealing with inter- national law, marriage, divorce and succession on death, and the second International Peace Conference was held at the Hague (Binnenhof, see p. 45) in 1907 ; the third will not assemble before 191 5. SCHEVENINGEN. (liotels.—See pp. vii-viii.) Scheveningen and the Kurhaus are reached from The Hague by good roads, or by Steam Tramways starting from either railway station every few minutes, fares on both lines, 15 or 25 cents; by Electric Tramway from the Holland Railway station and from the Plein and Prinse Gracht to the Kurhaus, fares, 25 cents, 20 cents, and 15 cents. Post, Telegraph and Telephone Office.— Badhuis Straat 83 ; branch office in the Kurhaus. SCHEVENINGEN. 55 British Vice-Consul.— Gerrit Barger; American Con- sular Agent, A. C. Nelson. Golf Club on the Dunes. Kurhaus, see p. 54. Theatre of Varieties.— De Seinpost on the S.W. Dunes. English Church Services at the Kurhaus in the summer. Scheveningen (population about 30,000), is a fashionable Dutch bathing-resort and fishing village; the drive there from the Hague is pretty, being along avenues and through woods shaded with oaks and elms. Zorgvliet, formerly the residence of the Dutch poet, Jacob Cats, is to the left of the road. Those who choose to alight can see the bard's stone table and inkstand. At Scheveningen (where the visitor will not fail to notice the singular costume of the fishwomen) will be found a magnificent Kurhaus, Kursaal, hotels, bath-houses, billiard rooms, news-rooms, lodging-houses, restaurants, sailing-boats, circus, horses, donkeys, and the usual watering-place require- ments. Scheveningen is frequented by over 30,000 visitors annually. The season extends from the middle of June until to as far into September as the weather will permit of sea-bathing, etc. The great centre of attraction is the handsome Kurhaus, or Grand Hotel des Bains, surrounded by spacious verandahs about 1,700 feet in length. The present handsome suite of buildings was erected since 1886 to replace an almost equally spacious estabhshment erected by German architects in 1885 and soon after destroyed by fire. The large hall of the Kursaal, with commodious galleries, can accommodate nearly 3,000 visitors, and high-class concerts take. place here two or three times a day. Day tickets, giving admission to the concerts, terraces, restaurant, etc., are issued at i gulden, or 7^ gulden for a book of ten tickets. Season tickets cost 22^ gulden., and additional tickets for members of families 7^ gulden. Subscribers are admitted to all the concerts and dances, and to the French plays at reduced prices. The promenade, 80 ft. wide, in front of the Kurhaus and other fine Hotels, extending a mile in front of the sea, is paved with brick. The sand is smooth and firm, and the bathing arrangements are excellent. Bathing tickets, beach chairs and tents are obtainable at the office on the boulevards. $6 HOLLAND. From the concert terrace and the boulevard stretches a spacious Pier 450 yards long, erected in 1900. In a pavilion and restaurant concerts take place in the afternoon and evening. Admission 10 cents; season tickets 5 gulden. To the south-east of The Hague runs the canal to Delft, on both sides of which are groves and villas. The charming villages of Voorburg (see p. 41) and Rijswijk (see p. 41) — the latter wtll known through the Treaty of Peace in 1697 — and the whole district of the Westland with its vineyards and orchards, and its ceaseless struggle with the German Ocean, provide pleasant excursions for the sojourner at The Hague. THE HAGUE TO LEYDEN. Distance about 10 miles, in about 15 minutes. Stations passed : Voorschoten^ de Vink. This is a journey of 10 miles, by rail, tramway, or carriage, through a somewhat undulating country, amidst villas and their formal gardens. The spire of Voorburg Church is seen to the right. Many of the Roman remains in the Leyden Museum (p. 60) come from the site of Forum Hadriani^ near Voorburg. Hofwyk, with the house of the brothers Huygens, is in the neighbourhood. LEYDEN. (Hotels, see pp. vii-viii). Post Office, 44, Breestraat. Open on Sundays 7 to 9 a.m. and i to 3 p.m. Telegraph Office, 15, Bloemmarkt. Steam Trams to Katwijk aan Zee in about 35 min. ; to Noordwijk aan Zee in about 50 min. ; to Oegstgeest ; to Haarlem in about 2 hours (recommended — especially in the spring when the bulbs are in bloom) ; to The Hague in i^ hours. Electric Tramway through the town from Station to the Utrecht Bridge. Omnibus to Hazerswoude, except Sundays. Steamers to Amsterdam (2 routes) several times daily, Sundays excepted ; to Katwijk aan Zee, Hazerswoude, Woerden, and Noordwijk daily, except Sundays ; to Gouda several times daily \ to Haarlem Fridays and Saturdays ; to Haarlemmermeer, LEYDEN. 57 Fridays ; to Halfweg, Fridays ; to Nieuwveen, Fridays and Saturdays; to Oudewetering and Roelofs-Arendsveen, daily (see also p. 121). Leyden (or Leiden) one of the most ancient towns in Holland, population 51,000, stands on 50 small islands, made by the Rhine and its branches, and is 10 miles from The Hague and about 24 from Rotterdam. At the time of its memorable siege, in 1573-4, xMotley tells us its watery streets were shaded by lime trees, poplars, and willows, and crossed by 145 bridges, mostly of hammered stone. The houses were elegant, the squares and streets spacious and dry and clean, the churches and public edifices imposing, while the whole aspect of the place suggested thrift, industry, and comfort. Upon an artificial eminence in the centre of the town rises a ruined tower of unknown antiquity. (Admission daily, 9 to 5, 10 cents.) By «;ome it was considered to be of Roman origin, while others preferred to regard it as the work of the Anglo-Saxon Hengist, raised to commemorate his conquest of England. Surrounded by fruit trees, and overgrown in the centre with oaks, it afforded from its mouldering battlements a charming prospect (some- what obstructed by the foliage in summer) over a wide expanse of level country, with the spires of neighbouring cities rising in every direction. The town presents at the present day almost precisely the same appearance as that described by the contemporaneous historians of the siege. Readers of Motley's " Rise of the Dutch Republic " will remember how heroically the citizens held out against the forces of Spain, led by Valdez ; how Vanderdoes, on behalf of the men of Leyden, answered the haughty summons of Valdez, by declaring that "when provisions failed them they would devour -their left hands, reserving their right to defend their liberty"; how for four months the inhabitants held out, until all provisions failed, even the dogs and cats and rats upon which they had been living; and theii how the carrier pigeons flew into the beleaguered town, telling that the Prince of Orange was coming to their deliverance, having cut the dykes and flooded the country, in order that his flotilla of 200 boats, laden with provisions, might reach them. But the water did not rise high enough, and the starving people, seeing the supplies in the distance, and not able to obtain them, were maddened, and demanded that the town should be surrendered. The Burgomaster, Pieter Adrianzoon Van der Werf, confronted the 58 HOLLAND. frantic citizens. As they called upon him to give them bread or surrender, he replied, '* I have sworn to defend the city, and, by God's help, I mean to keep that oath. Breaa 1 have none ; but if my body can afford you relief, and enable you to prolong the defence, take it and tear it to pieces, and let those who are most hungry among you share it." (see p. 60). Ihen came relief by unexpected means ; the wind arose, and a violent storm drove in the flood through the broken dykes, and onward it poured with increasing volume and power, sweeping away the Spaniards, and bearing the flotilla to the very gates of the city. As Motley says, "Wind and water fought in the defence ot Leyden"; and we cannot wonder that a day is annually observed by the citizens in commemoration of their almost miraculous deliverance on October 3, 1574- . To many travellers Leyden will be especially interesting from its connection with the Pilgrim Fathers. Here a church ot English Separatists was established, under the care of the wise and godly John Robinson. From his church the Pilgrim fathers set forth on that voyage to the New World which was to be an epoch in religious history. On the spot where Robinson lived there was erected, in the latter half of the seventeenth century, by a gentleman, John Pesyn, of the Reformed Walloon Church, a large and spacious house (the Jan PesynhoQ for old people of his congregation. In 1864 the front of the house was ornamented by a monu- mental stone, with the following inscription :— " On this spot lived, taught, and died, John Robmson, 161 1- The Rev. W. H. Dexter, of Boston, and Professor G. E. Day, then of Cincinnati, after of Yale College, undertook, in thankful remembrance of his work of piety, to come over to Leyden to have this stone raised and entrusted to the care of the magistrates of Leyden. The Church of St. Peter (1315 a.d.), a large red-brick building, now (1912) being restored, contams the tombs ot Boerhaave, Scaliger and other Leyden worthies. Fine organ Against the S.W. corner of the church is an iron plate with a representation of the "Mayflower" (1620), and the words : "Rev. John Robinson, M.A., pastor of the Enghsh Church worshipping over against this spot, a.d. 1609-1625 ; whence at his prompting went forth the Pilgrim Fathers to settle New England in 1620. Buried under this house of worship, 4th LEYDEN. 59 March, 1625, xlix years. Erected by National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States of America, A.D. 1 89 1." The Pilgrims' Church occupied part of the site of the present Town Library, in the Rapenburg (see p. 60). The Church of St. Pancras (Hooglandsche Kerk) a handsome Gothic edifice, the largest in Leyden, remarkable for its long transepts, contains the tombstone of Burgomaster Van der Werf (p. 57), and a memorial tablet on one of the pillars. Tombstone with sculptured granite portrait of Justinus van Nassau, 1631. Admission, 25 cents; sacristan at No. 2 close by. The building was restored in 1840; the walls are not whitewashed. At No. 9 Hooigracht is the entrance to a curious little chapel of St. Anna Hofje (open daily, except Sundays, 10-5, 10 cents). Passing through the door on the street a brick passage leads to the sacristan's house, one of a number of almshouses for 13 poor women. Over the chapel is a quaint little chamber with the priest's bed, an old iron chest, &c. The Stadhuis or Town Hall (1574) in the Breestraat is a quaint, picturesque Dutch building, bearing an inscription referring to the severe famine endured by the brave defenders of the town during the siege of 1574, to the following effect : — "After black hunger and need had brought unto death nearly six thousand people, then the Lord God was sorry, and gave us bread again." The interior (admission daily, 10-4, gratuity) is well worth inspection. Musical bells chime the hours. On the opposite side of the same street is the Qemeen- landshuis van Rynland (open Fridays and Saturdays, 9-1 ; Sundays, 10-12.30) dating from 1598. The University, Rapenburg 73 (800 students) was estab- lished by the Prince of Orange in 1575 in memory of the siege (p. 57), and its fame soon extended to every part of Europe. Amongst those who have taught or studied here are Grotius, Descartes, Scaliger, Salmasius, Boerhaave, Arminius, Gomarus, Episcopius, Oliver Goldsmith and John Evelyn. Leyden University still enjoys a high reputation as a seat of learning, especially as a school of medicine and natural science. The form of electrical condenser known as a Leyden jar was so named from Leyden, the place where it was invented (in 1746). There are, on an average, some 1500 students and about 50 6o HOLLAND. Professors. A new wing is now (191 2) being built bridging the stream adjoining the Nonnensteeg. The Library, Rapenburg 22, one of the richest in Holland, contains 175,00c volumes and 5,000 valuable MSS. Behind the University is the Botanic Garden, famous for its early directors — Linna-us, Boerhaave, Chisius and others. Fine collections of palms, exotics from the E. Indies and orchids. (Open daily, free, 9 till 6.) The Museums of Leyden are among the richest and most complete in the world. The Museum of Natural History (open daily from 10 to 4 from May to November ; entrance facing the Rapenburg ; ring) contains many rare and even unique specimens. The various departments for birds, insects, shells, skeletons and animal preparations, minerals and precious stones, etc., are all replete with interest. The Ethnographical Museum, 108, Bree Straat contains an interesting and extensive collection of the products of the Southern Ocean, Australia and the Dutch Colonies. Open from 12 to 4, daily, except Sundays. Supplementary Museum of Chinese, Japanese, Arabian, Persian, etc., curicsities, at Rapenburg 69. Admission, week-days, 12 to 4. The Museum of Antiquities, 18, Bree Straat, contains a fine collection of objects, chiefly illustrating the social habits and customs of the ancient Egyptians, Indians and Cartha- ginians ; also Creek and Roman statues and antiques. Open daily, 10 to 4 or 5 ; Sundays, 1 to 4 ; free. Cuide-book 20 cents. The collection is contained in twelve rooms. On the Ground Floor are the Indian Antiquities, Roman Sculptures and Egyptian Sculptures. On the First Floor in 5 rooms are Egyptian, Etruscan and Greek Antiquities. On the Second Floor are Statuettes, Greek, Roman and Etruscan bronzes, vases, glass and models. The Municipal Museum in the Lakenhal, 32, Oude Singel, founded in 1869, contains important pictures from the Town Hall, etc., and a collection of seals, medals and antiquities. Daily. 10 to 4 ; admission 10 cents; Sundays, 12-4 free. Catalogue, 30 cents. On the first floor is a large picture representing the incident refeired to on p. 58. LEYDEN. di In addition to the above attractions, Leyden contains the Nieuwe Kerk, a domed church (1648); some good agricultural collections; an interesting Astronomical Observatory, and some agreeable promenades. In the Van der Werf Park is a bronze statue of the Burgo- master {see p. 58). At the north-east corner is the Geological Museum (open Wednesday and Saturday afternoons), and on the south side the Zoological Museum. Rembrandt, Otto Vennius, Gerard Doit, Jan Stem and other distinguished painters, also those noted printers, the Elzevirs, were born at Leyden. I^he Rembrandt Straat (formerly Weddesteeg) is the street in which Rembrandt was born, but the building on the site (No. 3) was utterly destroyed by fire in February, 1907. Behind the house stood the mill belonging to Rembrandt's father, but it disappeared many years ago In the Steen^traat (on the right coming from the station and near the Rijnsburger Bridge) is a recently erected statue of Herman Boerhaave, the famous chemist who was born at Voorhout. Two interesting old town gates are the Zijl Poort and the Morsch Poort at the east and west ends of the town respec- tively. The latter is dated 1669. In 1906 was celebrated (at Amsterdam) {see p. 87) on 15th and 1 6th July, and at Leyden on the 14th July, the Tercentenary of the birth of Rembrandt. Many interesting excursions from Leyden, can be recom- mended, such as to Katwijk aan Zee, (five miles by steam tramway or by steamer daily at frequent intervals) where are some immense dykes and hydraulic works for facilitating the exit of the Rhine at low water and preventing the return of the sea-water at high tide. Of course, the Rhine at its so-called mouth is a very different river from the river of Rhineland— most of the water has gone off by other channels before it reaches this point. Close by are some works for obtaining salt by evaporation. Katwijk is a favourite seaside bathing-place, and the seat of a colony of artists. A circular trip may be made by steamer, leaving the Veemarkt landing-stage daily (June-Sep.) at 11.40 a.m. and returning about 4.30 p.m. The route is via the Old Rhine, Herman's Wetering (above the level of the ground on either side), through the Braassemermeer and the Kaagermeer back 62 HOLLAND. to the starting point. Tickets from and to Amsterdam includ- ing this trip obtainable at Thos. Cook & Son's offices, Amsterdam. This trip is an admirable method of becoming acquainted with the waterways and lakes (meers) of Holland. Noordwijk aan Zee, one of the prettiest little watering places on the coast (six miles by steam tramway, or steamboat to Noordwijk-Binnen three or four times a day), where the cultivation of bulbs, especially of tulips and hyacinths, is extensively carried on. LEYDEN TO HAARLEM. Distance, i8 miles in about 25 min. Stations passed : IVarmo/idy Voorhout^ Piet-Gijzenlrtig^ Lisse^ Hii/egom, Vogelenzang-Bennebroeky IVoestduin^ Leidsche Straat, The railway as far as Wartnond is partly cut through the dunes. These Dunes, or sand-hills, extend all along the Dutch coast. On a boisterous day a sand-storm here is as bad almost as in the desert. The dunes are sown with a grass which will grow^ on sand, and is nourished by the sea, and the roots keep the sand from flying entirely away. The dunes are the only hills in Holland, and these the winds have raised. The sea- water filtering through these dunes becomes pure, sweet, and drinkable ; it is carried in barges to the different towns, and deposited in cisterns at the service of the public. Near Piet-Gijzenbrug is the ruined Castle of Teilingen (where Jacqueline of Bavaria died in 1436). Near Vogelenzang-Bennebroek Station is the reservoir (seven acres) which supplies Amsterdam with water, and about \\ miles distant the residence of Linnaeus, the naturalist. HAARLEM. (Hotels, see pp. vii-viii.) Post, Telegrraph and Telephone Offices, in the Zijl- straat. Cabs.— One horse, first J-hour 60 cents, plus 30 cents every additional J-hour. Luggage 10 cents per article. Electric Tramways round the town (from the " Ceintuur- baan ") ; to Amsterdam via Halfweg ; to Zandvoort ; to Bloemendaal. HAARLEM. 63 Steam Trams to Alkmaar in about 2 hours ; to Leyden in about 2 hours. Electric Trams through the town to the Houtplein in about 12 minutes. Steamers to Amsterdam daily, except Sundays ; to Rotterdam daily, except Sundays ; to Zaandam daily ; to Leyden Fridays and Saturdays ; to Purmerend Tuesdays ; to Utrecht via Amsterdam Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Omnibus to Hoofddorp daily. Concerts during the summer, in the Forest on Sunday afternoons, and Wednesday and Friday evenings; in the Frederiks Park on Sunday afternoons and evenings, and Tuesday and Thursday evenings, and Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. Qolf Links (9 holes). Kermesse, from the first Sunday in August to the second Monday following. Haarlem, with a population of about 75,000, is the seat of the Governor of the Provinces of North Holland, and is one of its most attractive towns, surrounded by quaint houses, gardens, and promenades, through which flows the River Spaarne. Its story is similar to that of Leyden, except that it had a calamitous ending for the Dutch. It was besieged by the Spaniards in 1573- Four thousand Dutch held the city, even the women aiding the defence. Ten thousand Spaniards were slain, but at the end of seven months famine had nearly done its work, and a desperate effort was to be made by the besieged to cut their way through the camp of the enemy. Hearing of this, the Spaniards offered pardon if they would yield the city, and with it 57 of the chief citizens. It was accepted; the city surrendered to the Duke of Alva, who with wanton brutality violated the treaty, demolished the garrison, and murdered 2,000 of the citizens. It was from Haarlem that Leyden learnt the lesson to die rather than yield. Laurence Coster lived at Haarlem, and the Dutch claim for him the discovery of the art of printing. His statue stands in the market square. That he did something in block printing can hardly be disputed, but there is little doubt that type printing originated with Gutenberg. In the Qroote Kerk, the Church of St. Bavon, a huge Gothic building (fifteenth century), next the market place, with a tower 255 feet in height, is the Great Organ, 64 HOLLAND. which was once regarded as one of the wonders of the world. It has 5,000 pipes, 64 stops, and three keyboards. PubHc recitals are given on Tuesday from i to 2 p.m. and on Thursday from 2 to 3 p.m., but at other times to hear the different effects by the organist costs 13 gulden for a private party, and is very dear at the price. There are many organs in the world now which excel it, both in scale and in quality. It is, however, sacred to the memory of Mozart, who played upon it when he was ten years old. The marble group below the organ represents ecclesiastical poetry and music. In one of the walls of the church a cannon ball is half embedded, a stern memento of the siege above referred to. Admission to the church 25 cents, but free on Sundays. On some of the columns are decorative paintings. Fine choir stalls, choir screen, carved pulpit, &c. Franz Hals is said to be buried in the choir. From the tower (fee i gulden) there is a fine view. The Nieuwe Kerk, in the Anna Straat, has a curious tower, and the new St. Bavo Kerk, a fine brick-built edifice at the south-west corner of the town, was completed in 1910. The Stadhuis (Town Mall), in the Groote Markt, is a picturesque old building of a date anterior to the siege. In the Museum, or Picture Gallery, is an important collection of some 400 paintings in five rooms, with several examples of Franz Hals {see p. 65), ihe greatest colourist of the Dutch painters, next to Rembrandt and best studied here ; some specimens of Coster's work, and of local antiquities, among them the goblet of St. Martm (1600), a fine work of art. Room IV. is almost entirely filled with Franz Hals's works (in winter removed to Room III). Open daily, 10 to 3 or 4, 25 cents ; Sundays and ist Wednesday in the month free. Ring bell in the right farthest corner of the vestibule. Clock show- ing day of the week, date and month. Catalogues, in French, 30 cents, and Dutch, 60 cents. The Meat Market, in the Groote Markt, the quaintest brick-and-stone building in Holland (not open on Sundays) was erected in 1602. The Teyler Museum, (" Teyler's Stichting") near the old Weigh House, in the Damstraat, contains a collection of natural history, scientific instruments, minerals, fossils, some modern paintings, and a collection of drawings and sketches by old masters, including Michael Angelo, Rembrandt, etc., in HAARLEM. 6S eight rooms, bequeathed by a wealthy Haarlem merchant named Pieter Teyler van der Hulst. On the upper floor is a library (open week days i to 4) and a large lecture room. Open daily May to Sept. 11 to 4, Oct. to April ri to 3, except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, 25 cents (entrance 16 Spaarne). The last of the old town gates is the Amsterdamsche Poort to the east of the town. On the south side of the town are situated the Frederiks Park, where, in a suitable pump-room, a powerful chalybeate water is supplied, and a band performs three times a week (see p. 63) ; the Flora Park (statue of Franz Hals, see p. 64), and the Dreef, a shaded drive leading to the ffou^ or wood near which is the Pavilion. * The Pavilion, a villa originally belonging to Mr. Hope, a banker of Amsterdam, which afterwards came into the posses- sion of Louis Napoleon when King of Holland ; it is said that Napoleon III, late Emperor of the French, was born here. The fine Picture Gallery which used to be here has been sent to Amsterdam to the great J^ijks Museum collection ; but the building contains an Art Industrial and a Colonial Museum. Fee, 25 cents for each. To the south of the Pavilion is a beautiful Forest or Park. (Concerts, see p. 63). Haarlem also contains an Episcopal Museum (in the Jans Straat) a Scientific Society (Damstraat) many cotton factories and bleacheries, whence the Holland of commerce derived its name. The visitor should take care to stroll on the pleasant walks of the ancient ramparts, also to see some of the famous Bulb Gardens if in the neighbourhood at the right time (April to June). The show of hyacinths, tulips, etc., is marvellous, and a great trade is done in them, although, of course, the fancy prices of from ;^ioo to ^1,000 sterling per bulb are no longer realised, as during the speculative mania of 275 years ago, in which all Holland participated. In Dumas* novel, "The Black Tulip," will be found an interesting account of this mania. Later in the season (July to October) the show of Begonias, Gladioli, Lilies, etc., is equally splendid. In the environs of Haarlem are many pleasant walks. Among the places that may be readily visited are Bloemen- daal, by electric tramcar from the station (or about an hour's walk), with its gardens, villas, orchards and meadows protected p6 HOLLAND. ALKMAAR. 67 by the dunes ; the Brederodesche Berg, a small hill with an extensive view ; the red brick ruins of the Castle of Brederode. At a short distance by rail or electric tramway (in \ hour or 20 minutes) is Zandvoort, a small but agreeable seaside village, a popular sea-bathing resort, with good sands for bathers, Kursaal, excellent hotels, furnished villas, private lodgings, caf^s, music and charming walks. (Hotel, see pp. vii-viii.) The bathing season is from 15th June to the end of September. English Church service in summer. From Zandvoort a very pleasant walk may be enjoyed along the sands, 6 miles, to the North Sea Canal (p. 96), returning if preferred by rail. HAARLEM TO AMSTERDAM, Distance 10^ miles, in about 20 minutes. Station passed : Halfweg, The route from Haarlem to Amsterdam is very attractive to those who are interested in engineering, but not very picturesque. The bed of the Lake of Haarlem, now kept tolerably dry by enormous engines, is passed. At Halfweg are important sluices, which if improperly managed would inundate Amsterdam and the surrounding country. Thence the railway, after a slight bend, continues in a straight line to Amsterdam. The windmills on the bastions are the first noticeable objects to come into view. Amsterdam, set p. 75. HAARLEM TO ALKMAAR. Distance 21^ miles, in about 40 min. to i hour. Stations passed: Bloemendaal (Hotel, see pp. vii-viii), Santpoort-Meerenberg, Driehuizen, Velsen (junction for Ijmuiden), Beverwijk (for Wijk aan Zee), Uitgjest (junction for Zaandam and Amsterdam), Castricum, Heiloo. The train passes through a pleasant district to Bloemendaal^ Santpoort and Velsen (9 hole golf-course). From Velsen a branch line runs to Ijviuiden^ a small fishing village, with a lighthouse, near the entrance of the North Sea Canal. Steamer to Amsterdam several times daily. The railway crosses the North Sea Canal (p. 96) by an iron bridge to > / y Beverwijk, situated amidst gardens, pleasure grounds and country houses. (Steamer to Amsterdam daily, except Siindays, m about 2 hours.) 5 team Trams to Haarlem and Alkmaar. Horse Trams in 20 minutes to Wijk aan Zee, a favourite watering place among the dunes, situated close to the beach, which affords excellent sea bathing! (Hotel, see pp. vii-viii.) Castricum was the scene of a battle between the French and English (under the Duke of York) on 9th October, 1799, in which the former (under General Brune) were victorious. At Heiloo is a miraculous well dug, according to tradition by St. Willebrord, the first Bishop of Utrecht. ' ALKMAAR. (Hotels, see pp. vii-viii.) Post Office, 80, Gedempte Nieuwesloot. Telegraph and Telephone Offices at the Weigh House. Horse Trams from station through the town. Steam Tramvi^ays to Egmond aan Zee in about 20 min, ; to Bergen and Bergen aan Zee (the latter in summer only) ; to Haarlem in about 2 hours ; to Purmerend and Amsterdam (Central station) in about 2^ hours. Steamers to Zaandijk, Zaandam and Amsterdam daily ; to Schagerbrug daily except Sundays; to Nieuwediep daily in summer ; to Purmerend and Amsterdam daily in summer ; to Uitgeest Fridays and^ Saturdays ; to Zand daily in summer! Alkmaar (the name means "all sea" — population about 20,000), will be for ever renowned in the history of the Dutch struggle with the Spaniards in 1573. Commemorative Monu- ment **Alcmaria Victrix" in the public gardens. Of Alkmaar Mr. MacGregor (Rob Roy) says : " The houses are all of brick, so are the roads and streets ; and the archi- tecture is most grotesque and often very tasteful. Canals pierce the town in every direction, and are always shaded by rows of leafy trees. Churches are gently tinkling a chime from pretty little bells, and excellent shops are everywhere, with a crowd of hearty, honest looking folk, all seemingly contented, F 2 68 HOLLAND. THE HELDER. 69 but never boisterous, happy and ready for a smile or even a joke, provided it be not too flippant or disturbing." The Qroote Kerk (or Church of St. Lawrence), to the west of the Langestraat, the principal street of the town, is a late-Gothic edifice (sacristan at No. 4, end house, in the square, fee 25 cents), containing a painting representing the Seven Works of Mercy, by Buys, 1504. The carved oak pulpit dates from 1665 and the organ from 1655. Suspended in the middle of the choir is a model (1667) of Admiral de Ruyter's ship. The choir stalls are of oak painted. In the choir is the tomb of Floris V, Count of Holland (d. 1296), and in the south transept a fine brass to Pieter Claesoe Palinck (1546). On the wall of the ambulatory is a small organ dating from 151 1, with fine carved and coloured panels. Two other churches are modern. In the Langestraat is the 5tadhuis, containing the archives and the Municipal Museum (admission on week days 9 to 12.30 and 1.30 to 4, 25 cents), the latter consisting of pictures, weapons, instruments of torture, etc. Continuing to the end of Langestraat and turning to the left the traveller reaches the Town Weigh House, a picturesque building with a set of chimes in the tower. On market days (Fridays) the market-place in front of the Weigh House is covered with red and yellow cheeses, and the streets are crowded with country folk. On Mondays the market is occupied by pigs, calves, sheep, etc. Through Alkmaar passes the North Holland Canal (p^ 96) from Amsterdam to the Helder, which, however, has been to some extent superseded by the North Sea Canal (p. 96), enabling vessels to pass to and from Amsterdam by a shorter route. The well-known round Dutch cheeses come from Alkmaar, and during the season five thousand tons are weighed by the authorities. The Market held on Fridays in the summer is a sight which should be visited by all who have a day or two at their disposal when at Amsterdam. As it seems to require at least three handshakes to conclude a bargain in the market, no surprise need be felt at what would otherwise appear to be an unusual amount of friendly greeting. The gilt and silver head-dresses of the women in Holland are well enough known to all travellers who pass through Rotterdam or even Antwerp ; but here at this Alkmaar, and in fair time, the gayest finery of the more remote villages comes to a centre. These gold arid silver ornaments descend in families as heir- looms, so adding antiquity to their picturesqueness. Egrmond aan Zee (see p. 67), is a sea-bathing resort, with a good beach, that has come into notice since about 1904. Close to the lighthouse is a large lion erected in memory of Lieut, van Speyk (see p. 92). Here also is the PHns Hendrik Stichttng, an asylum for old and destitute sailors. Bergren aan Zee (see p. 67), three miles beyond Bergen, IS another quiet sea-bathing resort. Fine views from the dunes. Bergen was the scene of an engagement between the French and Russian troops in 1799. Monument erected by the Russians in 190 1. ALKMAAR TO THE HELDER. Distance about 26 miles in about one hour. Stations passed : St. Pankras, Heerhugowaard (junction for Hoorn and Enkhuizen), Noord Schanvoude, Zi]dewind, Schagenvaard, Schagen (steam tram to Wognum and Hoorn, to Van Ewijcksluis), Oudesluis, Anna Pauloivna, Koegras. Those who wish to continue their journey still further north may proceed to the Heldtr or (branching off to the right from Heerhugowaard) to Hoorn and Enkhuizen, whence steamer to Stavoren, for Leeu warden, &c. (see p. 72). THE HELDER. British Vice -Consul, W. J. van Neck. Steamers (from Nieuwediep) lo Amsterdam via Alkmaar and Purmerend daily in summer ; to Texel several times daily. The Helder (Den Helder) is a flourishing town, with a population of 28,000, protected from the violence of the wind and sea by the great Helder Dyke, five miles in length and forty feet broad, descending to the sea by a slope of 200 feet at an angle of forty degrees. At intervals enormous bulwarks or groynes of timber and stone project into the sea several hundred feet for additional security— the dyke itself being constructed of granite from Norway. A fine view is to be had from the Lighthouse at Fort Kykduin to the west of Helder. Opposite Kykduin the Dutch were victorious over the combined English and French fleets on 21st August, 1673. 70 HOLLAND. HOORN. 71 III |l| A walk of about a mile along the dyke (eastwards) should be made to Nieuwediep, the harbour at the mouth of the North Holland Canal (p. 96), where the Naval Cadet School and the Naval Stores and Magazines are situated. Steamers run across the Strait of Marsdiep between the Helder and the Island of Texel (Hotel, sre pp. vii-viii), four times daily, in each direction, in less than an hour. The boats land at Oudeschild. Omnibus to den Burg, the chief town on the island, also to de Cocksdorp. The islnnd is celebrated for its sheep, wool and green cheese, prepared from sheep's milk, also for .the eggs of myriads of seafowl which frequent its northern extremity, taking refuge on the island afttr a long flight across the ocean. The island of Texel is recommendable as a summer resort, where good bathing, fishing and shooting may be had. Good hotels ; moderate prices. The shooting rights are the property of the proprietor of one of the hotels and permission to shoot may be obtained from him. A shooting licence costs 25 gulden. J*br particulars of Excursions from Amsterdam recommcfided by Thos. Cook 6^ Sofi see p. 120, a7id for list of their Tours in Holland see p. 124. ALKMAAR TO HOORN. Distance 20 mile?, in 25 to 45 minutes. Stations passed : St. Pankras, Beerhugowaard (junction for the Helder), Middelweg, Obdam, Spierdijk, Zuidermeer, Bo^eldijk-Berkhout, HOORN. (Hotels, see pp. vii-viii.) Post and Teleg:raph Office in Het Groote Oost. Horse Trams to Enkhuizen in if hours; Steam Trams to Wognum and Schagen (see p. 69). Steamers to Amsterdam daily. Hoorn, the capital of West Fries^and, situated on the Zuider Zee, with a population of about 11,000, is within easy reach of Amsterdam on the route Amsterdam, Enkhuizen-Stavoren, Leeuwarden. Jan Pietersz Coen, the founder of Batavia, &c., whose statue stands in the Rooden Steen, was born here. William Schouten, who discovered the passage round the south coast of America in 16 16 and called it Cape Hoorn (Cape Horn) after his native town, was also born here. The 5tadhuis is in the Nieuwsteeg and dates from 16 13. Contains a 17th century council-room with black and white marble chimney piece, over which is a picture of the battle with the Spanish in the Zuyder Zee in 1573. Another room (for marriages) has a number of portraits of local worthies. St. Peter's Hof, in the Het Dal, not far from the station, was erected (1692) on the site of an old abbey. It is built round a courtyard and serves as an asylum for old men and women who pay a small sum weekly for their lodging. The governors' chamber, furnished in Louis XV style, is also worth seeing. In the West Frlesland Museum opposite J. P. Coen's statue, are various antiquities, comprising wood caivings and a few pictures (admission 25 cents). The Weigh House, opposite the Museum, dates from 1609. Het West, a street starting from the Rooden Steen, leads direct to the harbour and following the quay to the left the Hoofd toren, a quaint building, partly brick, partly flint, dating from the 1 6th century, is soon reached. Continuing along Veermanskade, Oude Doelenkade, Slapers- haven and Kleine Oost an old town gate Oosterpoort (built in 1578) is reached. It is curved interiorly, so that shots could not be sent straight through. In the Kerkstraat is the Arsenal, formerly the St. Jan's Hospital (1563). The Groote Kerk is a modern structure, but the Noorder Kerk (in the Kleine Noord) and Ooster Kerk (in the Groote Oost) are worth inspection. There are a number of 17th century gabled houses scattered through the town, and pleasant promenades by the side of the Zuyder Zee. HOORN TO MEDEMBLIK. Distance 13 miles, in 45 to 50 minutes. Stations passed: Wester Blokker, Zivaag^ Zivaagdijk, Wognum-Nibbixwoud^ Benningbroek-Sijbekarspel^ Abbekerk- Lambertschaag, Midwoud-Oostwoud, Twisky Opperdoes^ 72 HOLLAND. Medemblik, with a present population of about 3,000, is one of the Dead Cities of the Zuyder Zee and the chief town of the district before the foundation of Hoorn and Enkhuizen. Has an old chateau of Radboud (restored and now a court of justice) and a church (St. Bonifacius Kerk) with a fine tower. HOORN TO ENKHUIZEN. Distance 12 miles, in about 20 to 40 minutes. Stations passed : Blokker, Wesiwoud, Hoogkarspel, Boven- karspel- Grootebroek^ Brotkerhaven. The railway passes through a charming and well-to-do district, the richest in North Holland, to Enkhuizen (Hotel, see pp. vii-viii), another of the " Dead Cities," once a flourishing town of 40,000 inhabitants, now reduced to about 8,000. It was the birthplace of Paul Potter the painter (1625). The Drommedaris Tower, the Stadhuis, the Zuiderkerk, the Westerkerk (wooden belfry), the Weigh House and other interesting old buildings furnish evidence of former greatness. Steamers to Urk and Kampen daily, except Sundays ; to Stavoren (restaurant on board) four times daily (about \\ hours) in immediate connection with trains starting from Amsterdam. (In the winter this service has sometimes to be suspended on account of the ice in the Zuyder Zee.) ; to Harlingen Tuesdays and Fridays ; to Sneek several times weekly. The island of Urk is small (pop. about 2,500) but interesting for the picturesque costumes worn by the natives. For Kampen, see p. 105. ENKHUIZEN TO STAVOREN AND LEEUWARDEN. Distance from Enkhuizen to Stavoren by water about 14 miles in about i J hours {see below) ; from Stavoren to Leeuwarden (rail) 31 miles, in 50 minutes to i^ hours. Stations passed : Warns^ Koudum-Molkwerum^ Hindeloopen^ Workum^ Nijhuizum, Oudega^ Jjlst^ Sneek (steam trams to Heerenveen, Harlingen, Franeker, Leeuwarden), Scharne- goutum^ Bozunty Wieuwerd^ Mantgum^ Jonverd^ Beers^ Jellum- Boxum. Stavoren, formerly the residence of the Frisian princes and an important commercial city, is now a decayed place with a population of about i,oco. The ruin of the city is traced to the STAVOREN— LEEUWARDEN. 73 formation of the green sandbank called Vrouwensand (yjom2in'^ sand), which a legend says was brought about as follows :— A haughty wife of a rich merchant of Stavoren, having ordered the captain of a ship to bring her the richest cargo that could be had for love or money, was disgusted when the honest skipper brought her from Dantzig a cargo of wheat, which he considered the best of God's gifts. The scornful dame had the wheat thrown overboard at the mouth of the harbour. But the grain sprouted, and soon the nucleus of a sandbank was formed that effectually shut out Stavoren from the sea. Running through the fertile but monotonous district of Fnesland, several villages with seventeenth-century houses are passed before reaching Sneek, a thriving town of some 13,000 inhabitants with an extensive trade in cheese and butter (market day Tuesday). The Water Poort a town gate over a canal (1613) restored m 1878, and the Stadhuis are worthy of notice. Steam Tramway to Heerenveen ; to Harlingen, Franeker and Leeuwarden. Friesland is so to speak riddled with canals, and much of the western part, protected by long stretches of dykes, is under the level of the sea. From Sneek as a centre steamers ply in all directions: To Amsterdam, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, in about 9 hours; to Balk daily, except Sundays ; to Grouw (whence Leeuwarden), on Tuesdays ; to Heeg, four times weekly; to Heerenveen, Tuesdays and Saturdays; to Langweer and Leeuwarden, daily except Sundays ; to Makkum, four times a week ; to Oosterend and Bolsward, several times weekly; to Warga, Wommels, Tues- days; to Ijlst, daily, except Sundays; to Woudsend, four times weekly ; to Groningen daily, except Mondays. For description of Leeuwarden see p. 106. HOORN TO AMSTERDAM (Central). (i) direct ' (2) via Kwadijk, Volendam (Marken), Monnikendam. (i) Distance 25J miles, in 55 min. to i hr. 20 min. Stations passed : Avenhorn, Schatdam, Oosthuize?i, Middelie, Kwadijk-Edam (steam tram to Edam, &c.), Purmerend, Oostzaan, Zaanbrug, Zaandam, Hembrug, At Purmerend in the centre of 3 ** polders" the Purmer 74 HOLLAND. VVormer and Beemster (see p. 1 9) is a very paradise of dairy farms, where Dutch life can be seen in perfection (pop. about 6,000). On market days (Tuesday) the streets and canals are all too small to contain the crowds of people with their cattle, vegetables, fruit, poultry and dairy produce. The Town Hall ( 1 591) with a number of paintings and the Hervormde Kerk are both worth a visit. For Zaandam, see p. 99. (2) This journey occupies practically a whole day and can easily be made in the reverse direction from Amsterdam, or a circular trip may be made from Amsterdam via Monnikendam, Marken, Volendam, Edam back to Amsterdam (see p. 120). From Hoorn the train (about 25 minutes) is taken as far as Kwadijk-Edam station (passing Avenhorn, Schardam, Oosthuizen, Middelie, see above), whence steam tram to Edam (if the traveller is not proceeding to Amsterdam a variation may be made heie and canal boat (trekschuit) taken to Volendam and back to Edam) ; change trams for Volendam ; lunch at the Hotel Spaander ; boat to the island of Marken ; boat to Monnikendam ; steam tram to Broek-in-Waterland and Amsterdam. Edam (Hotel, see pp. vii-viii) is an interesting little place, famous for its cheese. The Stadhuis (may be visited; gratuity 20 cents) has a few paintings. The Qroote Kerk (St. Nicholas) has a pretty little cemetery behind it (sacristan's house No. 47 in the Kerkstraat, close to the church door; 10 cents). The interior is whitewashed and there is some stained glass ; wooden roof. There is a small Museum in the Aardappelhuis (open 9 to 12 and i to 6 ; 25 cents) and a few interesting brick houses in the village About a mile and a half to the east of Edam is the fisher village of Volendam (Hotel, see pp. vii-viii) noted for the costumes of its inhabitants, male and female, bestjseen on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays (population about 2,000). Steamer or draw-boat from Edam several times daily, 10 cents. During the summer Volendam is a favourite resort of Dutch, English, American, French and German artists. In the autumn an annual pilgrimage is made* by the Volendamers, who are Roman Catholics, to Kevelaer, in Germany. Steamers ply several times a day between the island of Marken (population 1,330) and Volendam and Monnikendam. In summer Excursion Steamers run direct to AMSTERDAM. 1. St Anihomj 9. NimiWA KtA 9, OiMto 4. W«tar 8. ^mtfofae, Forla- •> . I . D . D ■ D D B D D 6. ABftfah C^orali 10. Bmu* (SxdiMig*) 11. Bo«miImI GMdcM 11 DiMooieWMthiita Vim. Buftt WeMhvli IS. Doek^ N»i«l . B 1, 14. Uwmun Hjki . D Ua. M Six . . D li. Fote . D 18. PAlMeoflBdwteyB S, 19 ,. BejU . . D St. YmMkV^tk . . O 9R. Station (OMiml) . D tf. ., Hoofd . F SS, TtowaBiMll . d ». Zoolo^adCkrdnsBF 9fk. P«* mA TakoMih 0«a« . To l> 9& lAwOoorti M- QTmaMhuB W. H«ih*« Bmp. F SB. Bijlu AoMlcny . I S». „ MnMm . B 40. BMneks. 41. TkohiiMurkt 4S. BMk 41. Blind Aigrlimi . 44. WcO^kmam , 40. OiMMlTbwkftra 4& TwA achaawbmrg . B 47. Ofmu . . B 48. FtMonm . . B 49. Oottar OMMtoy . F fiOi ,, Ftek . . F M. EhapUtlPMk. .B 08. ZfiwMnhnfa . . B Ml AamMKmk . . B M. DiMoond CaMM Brt»blUiaMat . B 3 55. COOl^ OFFICR . B 2 . F . D D8. . D F F D D O B D l.cnabur^< HOORN TO AMSTERDAM. 75 Marker), calling at some of the above-named places on returning (^^^ p. 120). Unlike the Volendamers, the natives of Marken are Protestants. Between V^olendam and Marken the water is for the most part very shallow. Good view of the island from the hotel grounds. The island is almost entirely inhabited by fishermen, who are always absent on week-days, and the quaint houses and picturesque costumes of the women cannot fail to be interesting to visitors. Monnikendam, an old town of 2,700 inhabitants, mostly engaged in fishing and agriculture, is reached by steamer from Marken or tram from Volendam or Edam or Amsterdam. Many picturesque seventeenth-century houses, the Stadhuis or Town Hall (1591) with its tower and famous carillon and its wooden horsemen, which appear every hour as the clock strikes, and the view from the dykes are the principal features at Monni- kendam In the Church (r42o) is a finely carved choir-screen and an organ with painted folding-doors. The walls and pillars are whitewashed (admission 10 cents). Broek in Waterland is a little village, formerly noted for its excessive cleanliness. The houses are mostly of wood, many of them with fine gardens. In the Church (dating from 1628, added to in 1727) there is an ebony pulpit (1685). During services the ladies sit in chairs and the gentlemen in pews (oak) ; and in winter foot- warmers are provided for the former. (Key of the church at No. 83 in the village on the way from the tramway station ; gratuity). The pretty sheet of water close to the village is called the Haven rach. If time permits a Model Farm may be visited (gratuity). The journey, Broek to Amsterdam (passing Zunderdorp and Buiksloot), occupies about 45 minutes, including a short ride by boat across the Ij (or Y) to the Central Station. The lights of Amsterdam se«Mi from the steamer in the evening are very pretty. AMSTERDAM. (Hotels, see pp. vii-viii.) Railway Stations. — The Central Station, an imposing and convenient pile of buildings on the north side, serves for all Dutch and foreign destinations. The Weesper Poort, or States Railway Station, on the south side of the city, for Dutch and German destinations, is joined to the central station 76 HOLLAND. by a circular line. On the east the Muider Poort station serves for trains to Hilversum, Utrecht, etc. During the summer Cook's interpreter meets the principal trains. Travellers are warned against touts and street guides, and are advised to apply to Cook's Office (see below) for all local excursions and reliable guides. Cook's Offices, 83, Damrak, and at the Amstel Hotel. Post and Telegraph Office, behind the Palace m the Nieuwezyds-Voorburgwal. English Episcopal Church, 42, Groeneburgwal. Sundays, 10.30 a.m. The Church has been recently decorated with handsome Gothic oak carvings, and is well worth a visit (always open). A bronze tablet to commemorate the arrival in Amsterdam of the Pilgrim Fathers in 1609 was placed in the Church in 1909. Next door to the Church is an interesting museum of objects adapted to the prevention of accidents and disease in factories, workshops, etc. Open Monday and Wednesday, 10 to i and 2 to 4. Scotch Presbyterian Church in the Begijnenhof. Sundays 10.^0 A.M. (entrance between 130 and 132 Begijnen-steeg. Consuls.— British, W. A. Churchill, Esq. Vice-Consul, E. J. Labarre, Esq. . , x^ . American, Frank W. Mahin, Esq.; Vice and Deputy- Consul, Dirk P. de Young, Fsq. Cabs (open) per half hour, 60 c. ; at ni^ht, i gulden ; each additional quarter hour, 30 c. ; (closed) half hour, 60 c. ; i hour, 80 c. ; each quarter hour beyond, 25 c. Taxicabs, 1200 metres, 40 c. ; plus 10 c. for each 300 m. beyond. . . ,. Electric Tramways.— Fourteen lines, running in all directions, from 7.30 a.m. to midnight. The Central Station is at the Dam. Fares on all routes, 7 J c. ; return, 10 c. Steam Tramways from the Central Station to Edam, Monnikendam and Volendam. To Edam, via Zunderdorp, Broek and Monnikendam, to Purmerend and Alkmaar vta Zunderdorp ; also from the State Railway Station (VVcesper Poort) to Muiden, Muiderberg, Laren, Bussum and Hilversum. Electric Railway to Haarlem. Station, "Spui." Steamers, in the Harbour frequently cross the Y in various directions from several starting stations (see list) to towns in Holland such as Zaandam, the Isle of Marken, Uitgeest, Volendam, Nijkerk, Groningen, Meppel, Oostzaan, Aalsmeer, AMSTERDAM. 77 Leimuiden, Roelofs-Arendsveen, Hoorn, Kampen, Utrecht, Arnhem, Haarlem, Landsmeer, Bolsward, Beverwijk, Uithoorn, Sneek, Rotterdam, Purmerend, Lemmer (whence trams to Joure), Boskoop, Deventer, Zutphen, Zwolle, etc. ; Leyden, Alkmaar, Nieuwediep, Ij muiden, Harlingen, Gouda, etc. ; also on the Ij to Nieuwendam, Schellingwoude ; on the Amstel to Ouderkerk at frequent intervals. Ocean Steamers to London, Liverpool, Southampton, Leith, Hull, Goole, Grangemouth, Bergen, Christiania, New York, Batavia, etc. The Theatres are the Stads Schouwburg (for Dutch plays and Italian Opera) on the Leidsche Plein : the Grand Theatre in the Amstelstraat (closed in summer) ; the Hollandsche Schouwbur^: and the Frascati in the Plantage Middenlaan, for dramas and vaudevilles. The Crystal Palace in the Frederiks Plein, theatre and concerts. Variety Theatres (closed in summer). Rembrandt Schouwbur^:, in the Rembrandt Plein; Flora Schouwburg in the Amstelstraat. The Circus Carre on the Binnen- Amstel (closed in summer). Concerts are given in the Concert Hall near the Vondel- park, at the Paleis voor Volksvlyt, or Crystal Palace, the Zoological Gardens, the Vondelpark, the Old Tolhuis, etc., frequently in the week. The Lees Museum, or Reading Room, well supplied with newspapers, is on the Rokin ; a member's introduction is required. The best Shops are in the Kalverstraat, the Nieuwendijk, the Leidschestraat and Utrechtschestraat. History. Amsterdam was early in the thirteenth century a mere fishing village, having a small castle where the Lords of Amstel resided. It grew into a town, and in 1296 was seized by William III, Count of Holland. In the fourteenth century its importance increased, and it received municipal privileges in 1340. It was fortified in 1482, and soon afterwards its suburbs and a- number of vessels in the port were burnt during an attack by the Guelderlanders. John of Leyden and his Anabaptists attempted in vain to seize Amsterdam by a night attack in 1525. The city had already monopolised most of the Baltic trade, when by becoming part of the United Provinces in 1578 a vastly increased tide of prosperity set in. The siege 73 HOLLAND. of Antwerp in isS^;, and the subsequent decline of that city, and closing of the Scheldt in 1648, made Amsterdam the first commercial city of Europe. The destruction of 60,000 of its inhabitants, by pestilence in 1602, the wars with England m 1653 and other disasters, checked its prosperity in some degree, but through all it flourished till the time of the French Revo- lution. The wars of that disastrous epoch and incorporation of Holland with France almost annihilated the commerce of Amsterdam, but since the Peace of 1815 there has been revival and steady improvement. Amongst the celebrated persons born in this city were Spinosa, the metaphysician; Swammerdam, the naturalist; the brothers Van der Welde, painters ; the Van Huisums, painters ; and Admiral de Ruyter. General Description. The city of Amsterdam, surnamed the " Venice of the North," is the largest, wealthiest, and most populous city of Holland. It is situated on the south bank of the Y, which is a gulf of the Zuyder Zee. The town was originally Anistel- redamme— the dam or dyke of the Amstel, a river which flows through the city to the Ij (or Y). The city is about ten miles in circumference, new quarters having been added to the old town. Population about 575,000. ^ , ,. Independently of any special attractions the Dutch metropolis is a curious and intensely interesting place. A recent visitor says : " There is first the fosse which surrounds the walls of the city, and girdles it from end to end, in the shape of a tightly bent bow, of which the Y is the string. Within this watery limit on either side Amsterdam is built, in the shape of a half moon. The four main canals of the city— the Pnnsen- gracht, Keizersgracht, Heerengracht and Singel— follow the course of the outer fosse, circle within circle. Other canals, in number more than can be counted, or than I have any disposition to count— thoug^h the guides, no doubt, will say all about them— run at various angles to these, like the trans- verse lines of the spider's web, splitting up the city into innumerable islands united by drawbridges. Amsterdam is a town of water-lanes, a city of silent highways." Another visitor seems to have been equally impressed with the strange character of this veritable city of canals. ** What a wonderful city it is, with its six broad belts of water, horse-shoe shaped, and its hundreds of smaller canals, glea-uing between the tall dark houses; its enormous system of dykes steadily repulsing AMSTERDAM. 79 the hungry sea, whose level is many feet higher than that of its streets ; its 330 bridges, teeming with carts, cabs and foot- passengers— for Amsterdam is populated by hard upon 600,000 souls ; its long rows of lofty warehouses and loftier private mansions, brown brick faced with grey stone ; its docks full of large ships, and long paved promenades stretching out to the Zuyder Zee, only to be reached by pedestrians across a mysterious network of swinging watergates and drawbridges ; its stoney oases, recovered from a watery desert, round which are built banks, markets, churches, exchanges and massive edifices of every kind, all resting upon piles, and only facing dry land on one side." Very odd are the costumes, and truly marvellous the eccentricities of female dress to be seen in Amsterdam— more especially on festival occasions, when the sturdy peasants flock to the city from all parts. Wonderful and stupendous in mysterious intricacy are the head-dresses of the women. *' It is by the head-dress," we are told "that you distinguish the women of one province or town from those of another ; the rest of the costume is uniform to all Holland, viz., a stuff dress fastened in front and waistless, a small imitation cashmere shawl, thick highlows and black mittens. The Dutch peasant girl frequently carries her dowry on her head and in her ears; the plates crushing down her hair, and looking as if they had been let into her head after the operation of trepanning, are invariably composed of precious metal ; her weighted earrings are gold, or, at the very least, silver. One of the oddest head-dresses is that of the Texel women, who wear gold plates, over black Idce, decorated with horns of black ribbon just above the outer corners of the eyebrows, the back of the head being covered by a brown edifice, exactly like a small bronze coal- scuttle turned upside down." Another writer, remarking on the general peculiarities of Amsterdam and its inhabitants, says: "The look of the houses, with their curiously-carved gaoles, which, for some good architectural or engineering reason, are placed frontwise towards the street; the cranes which hang projecting from them for the conveyance of articles directly from the boats to the store-room at the house-tops without the intervention of carts in the streets or dirty feet on the stairs ; the well- grown trees which adorn the canal sides and shade the houses ; the quaint druggists' shops, with the gapers, or large Moorish heads, with open mouths for the reception of pills or 8o HOLLAND. the protrusion of tongues, as a sign of the healing art ; the little flaes and flowers which announce the arrival of boat-loads of herrings ; the strange costumes in the streets the women from distant provinces with their indescribable hats and bonnets, and their heads adorned with bands and plates, as it thev had been trepanned with the precious metals ; the infrequent knickerbockers from the island of Marken ; orphans in their parti coloured uniforms of red and black jackets and petticoats, like the ladies and gentlemen of the court of Richard II ; the carillons, chimed from the steep es at every hour— all these sights and sounds animate the still lite ot the old town in a very appropriate manner." . . The river Amstel at its entrance into the city is nearly a foot below the mean level of the German Ocean. Its outflow has accordingly to be regulated with sluicegates, and means have to be taken to effect some circulation in the waters of the canals, which have a tendency to become stagnant. There is no good drinking water found in the neighbour- hood, but an abundant supply of filtered water, absolutely pure fluid, has been laid on in pipes from the dunes near Haarlem^ Amsterdam is well supplied with Electric Tramways Steam Tramways and Steamers; with Hotels, Restaurants, Wine Rooms, Cafes and Beer Rooms, Theatres, Music Shops, Baths, Parks Churches and Museums; and when the visitor has examined all that is interesting in the city there are numerous enjoyable excursions to be made by either the railway tramway, or steamer, to villages and towns the like of which cannot be seen elsewhere. For tickets and information apply to Thos. Cook & Son, 83, Damrak. „,„,„,, Carriage Drives in Amsterdam.— During the summer season caniages leave Cook's Offices, 83, Damrak and Amstel HoteJ Tt 9.30 and 9-5° «•">• daily, Sundays excepted, visiting the chief places of interest, driving through the old and new town, along the picturesque canals and through the Jewish quarter, passing many quaint and interesting buildings. Visits to the New Church, Royal Palace, Zoological Garden and Aquarium, Rijks Museum, Municipal (Suasso) Museum and to one of the Diamond-cutting Factories. Interval for luncheon at travellers' hotels, carriages leaving Cook s Office, 83, Damrak, again at 1.30 p.m. Fare for whole day drive, including entrance (els and services of competent guide, bu not funche^n, 7 gulden ; for half-day, 4 gulden. Seats should be booked in advance. AMSTERDAM. Principal Sights. 81 Aquarium and Zoological Gardens, in the Kerklaan, p. 92. Beurs, or Bourse ; p. 83. ^ ^ Botanical Gardens ; p. 93. Burger Weeshuis, p. 92. Churches : Oude Kerk, p. 82 ; Nieuwe Kerk, p. 82. Crystal Palace (Paleis voor Volksvlyt), the, p. g^ Diamond Cutting Establishments, p. 94 Dykes, the, p. 92. Fodor Museum, see below. Muiderpoort, the, p. 94. Municipal Museum, p. 89. Museum Fodor, p. 90. Museum, New National, and Art Gallery (Rijks Museum), Museum Willet-Holthuysen, p. 91. National Dockyard, p. 93. Palace, Royal, see below. Parks, the, p. 93. Private Collections of Pictures, p. 91. Quays, the, p. 92. Rembrandt, statue of, p. 94. Sea Canals, p. 96. Stadhuis, the, 50 c, p. 83. Tower of the Royal Palace, p. 82. Vondelpark, the, p. 90. Willet-Holthuysen Museum, the, see above. Zoological Gardens, the, p. 92. The Royal Palace, open daily 9 to 4 (co cents) was formerly the Town Hall. Entrance door on the side opposite the Post Office behmd the square. Visitors are conducted over the building by an attendant, who expects a small gratuitv It stands m the open square called the Dam, the centre of. business life and of the tramway system, and is an oblong building 262 feet long, by 2c6 feet broad and 108 feet in height Its foundations rest on 13,659 piles driven 70 feet into the ground. It was the work of Van Campen and btalport (1648-1655); originally used for purposes of the local magistracy, it became, in 1803, under Louis Buonaparte, fhe Royal Palace, and was presented by him to the town in 1S48 The Queen resides in the Palace once a year for about a week* g^ HOLLAND. The interior of the palace is adorned profusely with richly- painted ceilings, marble bas-reliefs, ornaments, pamtmgs, etc. In the Audience Chamber are . Sculptured bas-reliefs .... ^-^'^^ ^f^^^^f/ Fabricius in the Camp of Pyrrhus . • ^. ^^' Election of the Elders by Moses . . • • ^^^^' Dentatus refusing the Samnite Gifts . . ^'~ Van Speyk blowing up his Ship (see p. 83) . n appers. In the two Dining-Rooms, the Throne Rooni (carpet in one niece made at Deventer) and the Reception Room, there ^re rSan' o'her paintings by'/^. JF^/, Van der Heist Jordan. Bronchorstjan Livens, etc. The Reception or Ball Room is one of the largest halls in Europe-^about 105 feet high, 1 20 ftet TonVand 60 feet wide. The floor is inlaid with marble covered wkh "ood for dancing. It is lighted by chandeliers of brilliant cut glass, depending from gold starred celestial globes. Un the walls which are lined with white Italian marble are various flags and trophies captured from the Spaniards ^"^ /"^lan . The msaiile paintings over the doorways m the Yeilow Room are marvels of deception, and invite special attention The Tower (25 c.) should be ascended for the cap tal view. In the foreground is a fine bird's-eye view of the uty and beyond a striking panorama ^Hand and water-the Z^^^^^^^ Zee and the Ij- dykes, canals, broad meadows, windmills vufages and towns. Zaandam, Alkmaar, Utrecht, Amersfoort and Haarlem can all be distinguished. The Oude Kerk, in the Warmoes Straat, dates from the thirteenth century (admission 25 cents) It contains three very fine stained windows of the fifteenth century. Ihere are numerous monuments of Dutch naval heroes and an organ Dlaced in a gallery of elaborate workmanship. ^ A few yards north of the Oude Kerk, at 40, Oudezyds- JTh'eTuseum Amstelkrin^, in a building used for 200 years, down to 1886, as a Roman Catholic church m the guise Ifa' private house, built at a time when ^o"^?" .fa^^^ were not allowed to hold public worship in Holland It contains a collection of ecclesiastical antiquities, paintings, engravings, and coins. Admission : week days (except Saturday), 2 c cents, TO to 4 ; Sundays, i to 4, 10 cents. , , ^ ^The Nieuwe Kerk, commenced in 1408, destroyed by fire in 142 1 and again in 1645, was rebuilt in 1648, and is now one AMSTERDAM. 83 of the finest churches in Holland. It contains the mausoleum of the celebrated De Ruyter, the ^tagonist of Blake and Monk. Bentinck, Van Speyk (who, in 183., blew up his ship rather than surrender to the Belgians, see also p. 92), and a few other cele- brities, including the Dutch poet J. van den Vondel, also have monuments here. There are painted windows and panels and a beautifully-carved pulpit by A. Vinckenbrinck (1649). The brass screen dividing the nave and the choir is very handsome. In 1898, to commemorate the taking of the Constitutional Oath by Queen Wilhelmina, the Dutch nation placed in this Church a beautiful large stained-glass window, designed by Mengelberg and executed by Schouten of Delft. The large organ (circa 1600) is supported by marble columns, and has painted doors; A small organ has been built against the south transept. (Well worth a visit ; admission 25 cents, sacristan No 6 Dam.) In this church the young Queen Wilhelmina was crowned on the 5th September, 1898. (The Queen 7i>as married at The Hague on the 7/// February, 1901. See p. 47.) The Stadhuis, or Town Hall, in the Oudezyds-Voor- burgwal. Admission daily before 10 a.m. or after 4 p.m., 50 cents. Occupies the site of the old Convent of St. Cecilia, was converted into the Town Hall, and contains some paintings by Dutch masters, but most of the pictures and other works of ait have been transferred to the Rijks Museum (see below}. The Bourse, situated in the Damrak, between the Railway Station and the Palace, is a new massive brick building, 460 feet in length, opened in 1903. The large main hall is the Produce Exchange; beyond, on the left, are the Corn and Shipping Exchanges ; on the right is the Stock Exchange. On the first floor IS the Chamber of Commerce. Admission, during business hours, 1.45 to 2.30, 60 c. ; i to 1.45 p.m., 35 cents. The National Museum {Rijks Museum) in the southern pirt of the city, is a modern and commodious building in the Dutch Renaissance style, by P. J. Cuypers, erected (1877-85) specially for the accommodation under one roof of the princi^ pal collec i>ns of works of art belonging to the State. Like all the other buildings in the city this one is built on piles. In laying the foundations 8,000 piles of between ten and eighteen metres in length were used. The fa9ade is adorned with decorations in coloured tiles, sculpture, etc., representing appropriate allegorical subjects and historical incidents con- G 2 84 HOLLAND. J -.u r>„.^h art The interior has been arranged so ""T^ -low of the wo ics of the Great Masters brought here der Hoop, me ri^auc , advantage and collections, etc., being ^^^" ^^ Jj^ ^TiW d^^^^^ the following without overcrowding. Open iree aauyuui.i^ hours:— to to i 1 6th November to 1 5th February II I 1 6th February to 30th April ... - Jo » 4 ist May 10 30th September ... ••• ° » ^ ist October to 15th November ... .-• 1° n ^ On Sundays and fete-days the time of opening is 12.30 p.m^ r ^cSs t° Dutch: .gulden f English or French, extra ; guide to the whole museum 50 «nt|- The Picture Galleries are on the First Hoor. The Ground Floor in var.ous rooms in the eastern half Passing through '^e HaU leavmg the ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^° l.'*^ tTou^? Xning a'SlleS^ of i?«/./i iN^<«f-f C.S "rnr;er;°irsfing J^^^^JVa^^ W OW a glass cabinet are the i?.J«^y Zembla in .595-96 in an /?.,;«.W who exploded ^J> ^^ ^^^ ^orth Cape. The7eU« w"efe 'diSed in Barents' winter house on the Il'and in iSrby Captain Karlsen, a Norwegian navigator. ^CSe:i^l£TD!^ZeM, which illustrates the Ihe Ecclesiasi cai i^ i^ Netherlands from the SSS piriodtr levenleenth century. Several rooms '"stuUr Architecture, and include a highly interesting series of apartments in the OUi Outch style^ ^^^ /JJ?^Jv SUV^en^D-M^SGen CV.».. i AMSTERDAM. 87 Returning by the staircase and the East entrance, The Western main entrance leads to the Western Half of the Ground Floor (in the Western Wing of which is a convenient Restaurant), where will be found (Room 203) a valuable collection of Porcelain and Lacquer Work, principally Chinese and Japanese ; and adjoining the next room (Costumes) is the Cabinet of Engravings, an extensive and highly valuable collection, chiefly of works by Rembrandt and his contem- poraries and pupils. The collection includes 400 Albums ot the works of different masters, 400 drawings, and 150,000 plates. To the south of the Cabinet of Engravings^ in a projecting IVing, is the Library, the upper rooms containing Collections of Coins, Adjoining the Cabinet of Engravings is the Admirals* Room (No. 189), containing pictures of sea fights, portraits of naval heroes ; then follow rooms occupied by the Antiquarian Society, with furniture dating from the seventeenth century, porcelain and some paintings. Descending the staircase the ^ West Court (No. 209) contains a valuable collection of Casts, Models of Sculptures in terra-cotta, etc. PICTURE GALLERY, FIRST FLOOR. The handsome staircase in the east and west vestibules leads to the first floor, which is occupied by the Gallery of Paintings. The Gallery now contains 1,700 pictures, of which Rembrandt's "Night Watch" (the Sortie of the Company of Frans Banning Coq), the ** Syndics of the Drapers," and the ** Anatomical Lesson," and B. van der Heist's "Banquet of the Archers," and the "Company of Captain Roelof Bicker," are the masterpieces. Changes in the hangmg arrangements are frequent; it is therefore difficult to give a reliable list of the position and numbers of the paintings, but with the help of the catalogue, by Dr, A. Bredius, and the accompanying plan, the following brief description of the Gallery will be found useful. The new annexe, specially lighted and reserved for Rembrandt's pictures (see plan), was opened (September, 1906) shortly after the Tercentenary celebration (July, 1906) of the painter's birth {see also p. 61). S8 HOLLAND. From the large vestibule, adorned with stained glass windows and hung with tapestries, the visitor enters the Hali of Honour, in the centre of the building, with four rooms on each side, giving access to the various saloons. At the end of the Hall or Gallery is the Rembrandt Annexe containing the large and well-known canvas called Rembrandt's "Night Watch," (No. 2016), painted in 1642, representing the ** Sortie of the Company of Frans Banning Coq," also, in separate ruoms, the ** Anatomical Lesson" (No. 2018), and the ** Syndics of the Drapers," (No. 2017). The "Night Watch" was painted in 1642 and measures II ft. 9 in. by 14 ft. 3 in. It is, if not his greatest, Rembrandt's best known picture. In the room preceding the annexe is another celebrated picture (already mentioned), B. van der Heist's "Banquet of the Archers," No. 11 35. To the left, No. 1085, a fine work by Franz Hals, "Captain Reael's Company of Archers," and opposite the entrance is P. van der Heist's "Captain Bicker's Company of Archers" (32 figures). No. 1134. Leaving this room, pass through Room 236 to the International Room, No. 235, containing paintings by Van Dyck^ MurillOy Rubens, Teniers, De Crayer, Neeffs, Jordaens and others. Room No. 228 is occupied by the Early Dutch Masters, and No. 227 by Dutch paintings ' of the sixteenth century, many of them of no importance, some by unknown masters. The Room of Anatomical Paintings, No. 220, depicts anatomical lectures, with portraits of eminent professors of medicine and surgery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries at Amsterdam. To the right is the Portrait Room, No. 214, of no particular interest. Adjoin- ing the Portrait Room are five rooms of Dutch Cabinet Pictures by Mieris, Ruysdael, Wouver- man, Van Haerlem Van Ostade, J, Steen, Kalff, F, Hals, Van der Neer^J, Hackaer^— small paintings, but many of them very beautiful. 1 AMSTERDAM. 89 ' Crossing the vestibule to the western half of the building are other five rooms of Dutch Cabinet Painting^s, more or less similar to those described above. The rooms to the left, Nos. 269, 265 and 263 contain the Van der Hoop Collection, bequeathed to the city by Mr. A. van der Hoop and his widow in 1880. This splendid gift contains examples by Rubeiis, Rembrandt, /. Steen, D. Tenters, Van Delft, Ruysdael, Van Mieris, Van der Neer, Van der Hoop, Wouverman, Don, Van de Veldt' ^ Maes ; and in the next room, Cuyp, Berchem, Van Ostade, Van de Velde, F. Bol, Maes, and Van der Voort. The Orange Room, No. 26c, contains a number of portraits of Princes of Orange-Nassau, miniatures, etc. The Historical Gallery is a long room. No. 255, divided into 5 sections. Room No. 248, called the Regent Room, displays furniture of the seventeenth century, marble medallions, busts, etc., and in the adjoining cabinet a few paintings and curiosities. The Van de Poll Room, No. 261, contains fifty-two Dutch pictures of the seventeenth century by Van Dyck, Paul Potter, Van de Velde, Hondecoeter, Ruysdael, Mieris, and others. The collection was bequeathed to the museum in 1880 by Baron J. S. H. van de Poll. The Dupper Room, No. 262, the contents bequeathed to the museum by M. L. Dupper of Dort, contains sixty-four good examples of the seventeenth century Dutch paintings by Van de Velde, Jan Steen, Van Ostade, Don, Ruysdael, Van Hoogstraten, Wouverman and others. A collection of Modern Paintings, by Dutch masters, belonging to the Museum, is housed in an annexe. A number of pictures hy Jozef Israels, including "The Jewish Wedding," has lately been presented to the Museum by Mr. J. C. J. Diucker, of London. They are in the " J ozef Israels " room. Entrance behind the main building in the Hobbema Straat. To the south of the Rijks Museum the Paulus Potter Straat leads to / The Municipal Museum erected in 1895. Admission free daily, 10 to 5 (or 4) except on Tuesdays; Sundays and holidays, 12.30 to 5 (3 in winter). It rcntains, on the ground floor to the left, in nine rooms, a varied assortment of Tortoise- J 90 HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM. 9' > shell, Japanese, Chinese, and Dutch fumituie, portraits and porcelain bequeathed by Madame Sophia Augusta Lopez- Suasso. On the right of the vestibule the Medico- Pharmaceutical Museum is displayed in five rooms. In the rear of the building is the National Guard Museum, in three rooms, consisting of weapons, uniforms, pictures, and musical instruments. On the first floor is the Picture Gallery containing a valuable collection of some 200 paintings, chieflv by modern Dutch artists, including Therese Sclnvai tze, Israels, Verschiiur, Van Os, Mesdag, Bisschop, Meyer, Mieris, Bilders, Ary Schtffer, Gieive and others. The pointings are displayed in nine rooms. Admission to the Picture Gallery free daily (except Tuesdays) from 10 to 5 ; Sundays and Holidays, 12.30 to 5. Admission to the Lopez-Suasso Collection, i gulden; to the other parts free. Near the Rijks Museum and the Municipal Museum is the pleasant Vondelpark, which was laid out in 1865, and covers an area of 75 acres. Entrance from the Stadhouders Kade. Beautiful shady drives and walks, picturesque views. Public Concert every Friday evening, from 7 to 9, in summer and on Sunday afternoons. On the east the park is bounded by the Vossiusstraat, containing the new building of the Blind Asylum. In the middle of the extensive grounds rises a statue, erected in 1867, oi Joosi ran den Vondel, \he most celebrated of Dutch poets (d. 1679). He was born at Cologne in 1587, and afterwards went to Holland with his parents, who were Mennonites. His principal works are tragedies with choruses, one of which, "Gysbrecht van Amstel," founded on the tradition of the destruction of the city of Amsterdam, is still annually performed. Near the monument is the Paviljoen Cafe. Further on is the Melkhiiis, a small farm where fresh milk is sold. On the south side of the Vondelpark new grounds have been laid out named the Willemspaik. The Museum Fodor. on the Keizersgracht 609, founded by a wealthy merchant named Fodor, contains a valuable collection of pictures by ancient and modern masters, drawings and engravings, preserved in a building erected and maintained with funds left by the donor for the purpose. For the study of the French masters of the nineteenth century this gallery is second to none, save the Hertford collection in London. Meissonier, Decamps, Rosa Bonheur, Ary Scheffer and others are here represented by admirable works, while the gallery also contains numerous fine cabinet pieces of the modern Belgian and Dutch schools. Admission daily (except Tuesdays), to to 4, 50 cents. ; Sundays and holidays, 11 to 4 (or 3), 25 cents. Pictures bear the name of the artists. Catalogues, 50 and 25 cents. The Willet.Holthuysen Museum, situated at 605 Heerengracht, consists of a choice collection of furniture. Delft ware, old gold and silver ware, glass, porcelain, ivories, and a valuable library bequeathed to the town in 1895. Admission week days (except P>iday), 10 to 4, 25 cents. Sundays and holidays, 1.30 to 4, 10 cents. Catalogue 40 cents. The Laren Art Gallery, 495 Heerengracht, is worth a visit. Tickets 50 cents, obtainable at Cook's office. The Felix Mentis, Kiezersgracht 324, the property of a scientific society dating from 1777, contains pictures, casts, mathematical instruments, observatory, library, reading room and a concert room. Fee, 50 cents. There are numerous good Private Collections of paintings in Amsterdam. Visitors are admitted to the saloons on sending in their cards, and are expected to give a small fee for charitable jmrposes. The most important collection, that of Baron J. P. Six (511 Heerengracht) contains examples by Re7nbra?idt, Wouvermau, Bakhuyseju Gov. Flinck, Jan Steen, Troost, F. Hals, Ruysdael, Cuyp, F. van Mieris, Paul Potter, Berchem, J. van der Neer, G. Don, Maes, etc. Many of the pictures were painted expressly for the Six family, and the founder of the collection, Jan Six, Burgomaster of Amsterdam from 1691 to 1702, was a liberal patron and friend of Rembrandt and Flinck. Admission by order signed by British or United States Consul, daily 10 to 11.30, and in July and August (in the family's absence) 10 to 3 ; fee, i gulden. The University (Municipal), or Athenaeum, occupies an old Gasthuis or Hospital near the Kloveniers-Burgwal ; it possesses a well-appointed school of natural science, including chemical and physiological laboratories. There are about 20 professors and 600 students. The Botanic Garden belongs to this institution. The University Library, in an adjacent building, 421 Singel, which was restored in 188 1, contains about 100,000 g^ HOLLAND. printed volumes, including the Rosenthal Collection of 8,000 books on Indian literature. It also possesses numerous valuable MSS. (Csesar's Be//um Ga/iia^m of the ^^th ^^nt Svriac New Testament; a Sachsenspiegel of the r 4th cent. , letters of Dutch scholars). The library is open free daily, 9.30 to 5. . . The Arti et Amicitiae Society of Painters, ^'^ Rokim, possesses an Bisfonca/ Gallery of 200 pictures and scenes from the history of the Netherlands, comprising many work, of great merit. Other exhibitions of art also take pl'-^^^ ^f/f ' sometimes affording an admirable opportunity of ^nspecting valuable old paintings and other works of art lent >y R"^^^^ individuals. Admission, 25 cents. In the vicnity is he Lees Museum (Reading room), with newspapers. Introduction by a member necessary. The Zeemanshoop (Seaman's HoiH at the corner of the Dam and the Kalverstraat, is a society consisting of upwards of 600 members, mnny of whom belong to the best faniihes of Amsterdam. Those who are captains recognise each o^her s vessels at sea by the flag of ihe society. As every member s flag bears his number on the lists of the society, the name and destination of the vessel, although beyond haiUng d.s ance, are easily ascertained, and a report of the meeting is then sent home. A fund for the widows and orphans of seamvn is also connected with the Society. Visitors may obtain access to the building by applying to the custodian in the forenoon (tee 50 cents). A A The Burger Weeshuis (Orphan Asylum) is a carved and , decorated building with fine gates situated in Kalverstra^ Van Speyk (... pp. 69, 83,) ^vas brought up at this establishment The children from the Weeshuis are rendered very conspicuous in the streets by their quaint half-red and half-black attire. The Harbour and Quays along the banks of the Ij display a scene of busy life. The vast Dykes P^^^^eM^/^^, '^J^J^ should be inspected. These enclose the Oostelijk and Westelijk Docks. The Zoological Gardens in the Kerklaan are 28 acres in extent, and are among the finest in Europe. Admission daily, in summer from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., 50 ^''^ }^^ Aquarium, 25 cents. Founded by the Society A^/^r^^r//^ Magistra\A popularly called the "Artis," this splendid property is entirely supported by its members. In addition to AMSTERDAM. 93 the magnificent collection of large animals, birds, reptiles, etc., and the aquarium, there is a Museum containing Chinese, Japanese, and Indian curiosities, also a collection of insects, stuffed animals, library and fish breeding tanks, a Zoological Museum adjoining the Restaurant. A fine aquarium was added in 1 88 1 beyond the Deer Park. Concerts take place in summer on Wednesday Evenings from 8 to 1 1 p.m. Admission on these days i gulden. The Parks. Besides the Vondel Park, p. 90, there are the Sarphati Park in the Ceintuurbaan, the Easter Park in the Linnaeus Straat, the Wester Park near the Haarlem merpoort, and the small Wertheim Park at the entrance of the Plantage. The Botanical Gardens are situated opposite the south side of the Park, open daily, 10 to 5, admission 25 cents. In the summer evenings visitors are attracted by the display of Victoria Regias, grand palms and other wonders of the vegetable kingdom. The Crystal Palace (Paleis voor Volksvlyt) in the Frederiks Plein, is a popular resort, built of glass and iron, with a dome 1 90 feet high, surmounted by a statue of Victory. The great hall for exhibitions, concerts and theatrical per- formances is capable of holding 6,coo visitors. Behind the Palace is a large garden containing a covered gallery with shops. Of other things in Amsterdam which the tourist may notice a few must be briefly strung' together. The Panorama of the Siege of Haarlem almost opposite the ** Artis " {see above). Admission 50 cents, daily until dusk. The Panopticon in the Amstelstraat, containing an interesting gallery of statues. Admission 50 cents (in September only, 25 cents). The Metal Cross, in the Middle of the Dam, erected in memory of Dutch soldiers who fell in the campaign of 1830-31. The Criers' Tower dating from 1482, is the spot from whence the women used to watch the vessels containing their husbands pass out of sight, or watched wearily when their return was long delayed. The National Dockyard, on the island of Katten, the largest naval depot in Holland. Order to visit must be obtained through a Consul. The Naval Academy on the Prins Hendrikkade, for the 94 HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM. 95 1^ |i P I L I instruction and training of lads to become sailors. Can be visited daily except Saturday and Sunday. The Statue of Rembrandt in the Rembrandt Plein, erected in 1851. Rembrandt's house is in the Joden-Bree Straat No. 4 (now No. 68). The house in which he died stood in the Rozengracht ; he was buried in the Westerkerk, October 8th, 1669. The House of De Royter is in the Prins Hendrikkade, No. 131. The Muider Poort, near the Ooster Park and the Haar- lemer Poort, near the Wester Park, are the only remaining specimens of the ancient city gates. The English Pilgrims who sailed from Delfshaven {see p. 28) in the ''Mayflower" in 1620, li^ed for some time in the Engelsche Pilgrims' Steeg. No one visiting Amsterdam should omit gaining some little insight into its great local industry— that of diamond cutting. To witness this process used formerly to be the object of many journeys to Holland. Almost every foreigner when he arrived at Amsterdam, especially if he were accom- panied by a lady, before visiting the paintings, would be driven to the street where was situated the late famous cutting and polishing establishment of M. Coster at 12, Zwanenburger- straat, now a limited company. Open to visitors 9 to 5. The famous Koh-i-noor diamond was cut by this firm. The largest establishment now^ belongs to MM. Boaz Brothers, having 400 cutting machines and 600 workmen. The gross value of the diamond trade here is estimated at thirty- five millions of -florins. The famous CuUinan diamond was cut and polished here by MM. Ascher & Co. in 1908. AniSterdam has other characteristic features, some of deep importance to the social reformer, not the least interesting being the numerous orphanages, 'Providers' Houses," and other philanthropic institutions numbering over 100, for the Dutch are really a kindly-hearted as well as intellectual people. Charles II exclaimed when informed that the armies of Louis XIV were threatening the city, " I am of opinion that Providence will preserve Amsterdam, if it were only for the great charity they have for the poor." The Society for Public Welfare was founded at Edam by a Baptist minister, but transferred to Amsterdam in 1784. It is a remarkable institution for the promotion of education and for raising the moral character of the people. Members pay a small annual subscription, afid in provincial towns sub- committees are appointed all over Holland. The society includes 300 of such committees with 18,000 members, w^ith the central board of management at Amsterdam. As regards the cultivation of intellectual pursuits, we are told that '' no city, for its size and population, abounds with more societies for the cultivation of literature, science, and the fine arts than Amsterdam." It has an academy of painting, sculpture, engraving and architecture. Visitors to the Jewish quarter in the east of the Old Tow^n will be interested to know that the small house, consisting of only two rooms, occupied by Rembrandt from 1640 to 1656, in the Joden-Bree Straat, No. 4 {see p. 94), was purchased in 1905 for ;^3,750 by the Town Council of Amsterdam, to be turned into a Rembrandt Museum. Some ;i^900 of the purchase-money is set down as the value of its " historical associations." The Harbour and Ship Canals. The water of the Zuyder Zee does not flow freely in and out of the Y, being regulated by enormous sluices. In severe winters the Y is frozen over. It w^as so in 1794-95, w^hen French cavalry and artillery attacked and captured the frozen-in Dutch fleet opposite Amsterdam. The finest view of Amsterdam is obtained when steaming across the Ij.' {see p. 75). It is thus described by H. Havard in his Dead Cities of the Ztiyder Z^e :■ — " Amsterdam is a marvellous sight as viewed from the Y. The long black band of buildings stretching out under a greyish-blue sky of infinite softness, the thousands of high- pitched roofs and gables, and above them the steeples and church towers displaying their elegant campaniles ornamented with dark balustrades, and the joyous ringing of the many peals of bells possessed an indescribable charm for us early voyagers. To the right, the squat dome of the Southern Church ; in the centre, the more elegant but heavy cupola of the King's Palace ; on every side belfries and clock towers, launching high in air their graceful spires, apparently dominating the Protestant churches of the town, which have abdicated the names of the saints, under whose invocation they were built and consecrated, to adopt the more simple names of the East or West Church, New Church or Old Church, etc. ^ This view is now interfered with by the new Central Railway Station and Docks. 96 HOLLAND. "In the front plan the long narrow houses leaning one against the other, with their thousands of windows framed in white-painted wood, appeared to look curiously at the great gulf which is the source of the riches of this strange city. Some of these houses incline forward and some backward, like a band of tipsy soldiers, from the failure of the foundations of piles upon which they are built. The great spreading trees shading the old and massive grey steps and gateways form a wall of verdure in front, under which we saw circulating numerous promenaders, mixed with groups of sailors, merchants and the labourers of the port actively following their various vocations." Originally all the commerce of Amsterdam was carried on by way of the Zuyder Zee, but as that gulf got shallower, and a dangerous bar accumulated at the mouth of the Y, and ships got bigger, the good citizens found their trade gradually slipping away to Rotterdam. In the year 1819 it was decided to render Amsterdam inde- pendent of the Zuyder Zee by forming a canal to the sea. The King wished to select the direct route since adopted, but private interests prevailed, and the Grand Ship Canal of North Holland was constructed in six years from Amsterdam to Nieuwe Diep, near the Helder, a distance of 46 miles. It was a great enterprise, and of enormous benefit to the Hollanders. Still it had its disadvantages and delays — large vessels had to leave a part of their cargoes at Nieuwediep, and the Hollanders nursed a growing desire for a more direct and more expeditious route between their capital and the German Ocean. This desire has been realised by the construction and opening of the North Sea Canal, 15 miles in length, from Amsterdam to the seaport town of Ijmuiden (Ij mouth). This new canal was commenced in March, 1865, and was opened on the ist November, 1876, by the late King in person. The late Dutch Minister Thorbecke, M. Jitta, President of the Company, Sir John Hawkshaw, Mr. Julius Dircks, and the contractors, Messrs. Lee & Sons, of ^Vestminster, all deserve honourable mention fur their strenuous exertions to achieve the project. The cost of the North Sea Canal was ^£'2,000,000, but a considerable portion of this outlay has been returned by the transformation of adjacent lakes and marshes into fertile AMSTERDAM. pyt • " polders " worth ^80 an acre. Wheat, colza, and other crop^ are now produced from land which a few years ago was the bottom of a lake. The canal has been formed chiefly by dredging m the marshy portions, and by spade industry first and dredgmg afterwards amongst the sand-hills. Inclusive of the 10 collateral canals, there are 40 miles of banks in the whole system. No less than 13,000,000 of cubic loads of earth were shifted in the construction of this great canal. The canal is about 15 miles in length, 65 to no yards in width, and 30 feet in depth. Its level is about 20 inches below the mean level of the water at Amsterdam. Three huge gates, completed in 1872, one of them 24 yards and each of the other two 1 2 yards in width, protect the west entrance of the canal against the incursion of the sea. The breakwaters which shelter the entrance are three-quarters of a mile in length. At the entrance are four lighthouses. The locks are all opened and closed by electricity, and the lighthouses lighted by electricity. The whole outlay, including the cost of the protecting dyke at the east end, near the village of Schelling- woude, amounted to 35,000,000 fl., of which 6,000,000 fl. were contributed by the city of Amsterdam, and upwards of 10,000,000 fl. defrayed by the sale of reclaimed land (at an average price of 1,200 fl. per acre), while the remainder is borne by Government. Near the locks lies ijmuiden, with 2,500 inhabitants, a place which has sprung into existence since the formation of the canal. A new system of locks has been constructed on a parallel branch of the canal between the old locks and the iron-clad fortress that defends the entrance. These magnificent works are well worth a visit to all who take an interest in large engineering undertakings. Steamboats leave the De Ruyter Kade (behind the Central Station) two or three times daily for Ijmuiden, making the trip in less than two hours, or the return journey can be made by train. British Vice- Consul, S. C. L. Reygersberg. In order to protect the North Sea Canal from the Zuyder Zee, a huge dam, i J miles in length, .has been constructed across the east mouth of the Ij at Schelling:woude. The middle of this embankment is broken by five huge locks, three of them intended for the passage of vessels, while the two others are used in regulating the amount of water in the canal. The largest of them is H 98 HOLLAND. about no yards in length, 22 yards in width, and deep enough for vessels of very large tonnage. The two heaviest of the c6 ponderous lock-gates, 22 of which are constructed of iron and 34 of wood, weigh 34 tons each The cost of the locks alone has amounted to nearly 6,000,000 fl. Steamers from the Viaduct at the south-east corner of the Central Station at Amsterdam about every hour from 6.30 a.m. to noon, and from 2.30 to 7.30 p.m. In the month of November, 1900, the Dutch Government submitted to the States Council a new Bill proposmg the draining of the entire Zuyder Zee, which, if carried out, will be one of the greatest enterprises of modern times. Excursions from Amsterdam. From the De Ruyter Kade, near the Central Railway Station, by steam ferry every quarter of an hour, may be visited The old Tolhuis, or Custom House, a popular Caf6 and Tea Garden, where during summer a military band plays on Sunday and Thursday evenings, and concerts are given occasionally. Here are the massive gates at the entraiice of the North Holland Canal, which extends to the Helder, a distance of 46 miles {see p. 96). Another pleasant excursion by steam tramway can be recom- mended to Muiden, ^\ miles to the east of Amsterdam, at the mouth of the River Vecht, with an ancient Castle (admission, 25 cents) Beyond Muiden the tramway goes to Hakkelaarsburg and on to Muiderberg, a bathing resort, with beautiful shady walks and a celebrated echo ; or to Naarden, a small fortified town, with a curious Church ; then to Laren, passing Jan Tabak and Larenberg. Laren is much frequented by artists, and the village people still retain their ancient costumes. In the neighbourhood are shady, pleasant woods. The villagers' religion is Roman Catholic, and Laren is said to be the only spot in Holland where a public procession headed by the clergy is allowed annually at the great church festival. Laren is connected by tramway with the fishing village of Huizen on the Zuyder Zee (on the north), and with Hilversum (on the south-west), a prosperous town of 16,000 inhabitants, and a fashionable summer resort of Amsterdam's wealthy merchants, sheltered by woods of beech and fir, by steam tramway. AMSTERDAM TO UTRECHT. 99 (Hotel, see pp. vii-viii.) 5team Trams to Laren, Huizen and 's Graveland. At about J a mile from Hilversum station is a 9 -hole golf course. Horse trams from the station through the town. The return to Amsterdam from Hilversum may be made by railway. A short but enjoyable excursion may be mentioned to the thriving and thoroughly Dutch town of Zaandam which can be reached by steamer from Amsterdam m half an hour, or by train in thirteen minutes. Zaandam is a large town of 24,000 inhabitants, known for its extensive wood and grain trade, and its hundreds of windmills. The chief attraction, however, is a visit to the Hut where Peter the Great dwelt in 1697 when he was learning the trade of a shipwright. Fee 25 cents. The Emperor Alexander I., when he visited the hut in 1 8 14, caused a tablet to be placed over the mantelpiece on which was inscribed *' Nothing too small for a great man," and wrote his name on the wall, as thousands of others have done. Zaandam is at the mouth of the Zaan, up which steamers run (passing the villages of Koog, Zaandijk, and Woormerveer — numerous windmills) to Alkmaar (see p. 67). Other excursions conveniently made from Amsterdam as a centre are those to Broek in Waterland, Monnikendam, Marken, Volendam, Edam (^^^ pp. 72, 120), to Leyden and circular steamer trip from there {see p. 121), to Lemmer {see p. 121), to Zaandijk {see p. 121). See also p. 122. AMSTERDAM TO HAARLEM. See p. 66, route reversed. AMSTERDAM TO UTRECHT. (i) via Breukelen (2) via Hilversum (3) by steamer Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from the Prins Hendrikkade. (i) Distance 22 miles in 50 min. to i hour 10 min. Stations passed: Duivendrecht^ Abcoude, Loenen- Vreeland^ Nieuwersluis^ Breukelen (junction for Gouda, &c.), Maarssen, H 2 lOO HOLLAND. (2) Distance 28 miles, in about i hour. Stations passed : JVeesp, JVaarden-Bussum, Heerenstraat^ Hilversunl (junction for Baarn and Amersfoort, &c.), Maar- tensdijk, Nieuwe Watering, Groenekanschedijk. The railway line crosses the Watergraafsmeer Polder and the NaJirder Meer and passes a number of private residences before reaching Hilversum {^see p. 98). UTRECHT. (Hotels, see pp. vii-viii.) Railway Stations. Central Station (State Railway whose head offices, a fine building, are at Utrecht), for all trains ; Oosterspoorweg (Holland Railway) for trains to Amsterdam via Hilversum. Post Office, Domtrans. Open 6.30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays, 8 to 9.30 and 12 to 2. Teles:raph Office, Wester Straat. British Vice- Consul.— John Twiss. The new Episcopal Church (built in 19 12) is situated in the Van Limberg Stirumstraat, near the Prinsen straat. Cabs per hour i gulden, plus 25 cents for each \ hour beyond ; from station to town 60 cents, three persons 70 cents, four persons 80 cents. Electric Tramways, three lines, one making the circuit of the town ; combined tram and barge service to Vreeswijk vicL Jutphaas several times daily ; to de Bilt and Zeist. Steamers to Amsterdam and Haarlem, Mondays, Wednes- days and Fridays ; to Rotterdam, daily except Sundays ; to Vreeland daily ; to Vreeswijk and Ijsselstein (from Jutphaas) daily (see Tramways above). Utrecht (pop. 1 08,000) is one of the oldest of Dutch towns. It was called by the Romans Trajectum ad Rhenum^ and sub- sequently Ultra Trajeclum^ whence its present name. It stands where the Rhine sends part of its waters by the Vecht to the Zuyder Zee and part by the Old Rhine to the German Ocean. The town is intersected by two canals, the Oude and Nieuwe Gracht. Unlike most other Dutch towns, the houses of Utrecht stand on a decidedly higher level than the surface of the adjacent waters. Utrecht is noted for its manufacture of velvets and soft carpets. UTRECHT. lOI It is recorded that the first bishop of Utrecht was St. Wilibrod, an Englishman, who came here in the seventh century, baptised thousands of pagan persons, and received from Charles Martel the Castle of Utrecht as an episcopal residence. Florizoon, the tutor of Charles V., and afterwards Pope Adrian VI., was born at Utrecht. Several of th- German Emperors resided here. In 1579 this town was the scene of the Confederation of the Seven United Provinces and the election of William I of Orange as Stadtholder. Towards the end of the seventeenth century the town suffered much from the exactions of the victorious Louis XIV. In 1713 the celebrated Peace of Utrecht, which terminated the Spanish W.r of Succession, was concluded at the residence of the British Minister. Utrecht will have a special interest to students of church history as being the headquarters of the sect of the Jansenists, dissenters from the Roman Catholic Church. The Old Catholics, as they are called, number 9,000. with Bishops at Haarlem and Deventer, and an Archbishop at Utrecht. The tourist will scarcely fail to notice the peculiar costume of the country people in this district. The men wear a kind of half vest and old-fashioned short coat and thick black hat with narrow brim ; the women being attired in a neat dress, with small, neat-looking cap and great wooden shoes. Shoes are cheap in the Low Countries ; a pair of children's wooden shoes costing only three half-pence, while a pair of men's shoes may be procured for half a franc. The Cathedral of St. Martin, in the Dom-Kerkhof, was founded in a.d. 720, but the present edifice dates from 1254-67. (sacristan, 10, Achter den Dom ; fee 25 cents.) There are several monuments, including that of Bishop Egmond. The fine organ is surmounted by a statue of King David with his harp. A gallery round the pillars spoils the general impression. In 1674 a fearful storm destroyed the nave, completely cutting the church in two. A picture of the complete building is shown inside. ' The noble Gothic choir is a fine fragment. The lofty Tower, 338 feet in height (458 steps) dating from 1382, is detached from thi main building and pierced by a passage through which pass the electric tramcars. Splendid view from the summit. Entrance at the foot, fee 10 cents. Carillon of 42 bells. The beautiful Cloisters have lately been restored, and should be visited. 103 HOLLAND. In the corner of the Dom-Kerkhof, opposite the University, is a statue of Count Jan van Nassau. The University (1636), enlarged in 1894, numbers oyer f,o30 students. Admission on week days, 10 to 2. The Union of Utrecht signed here in 1579. The University Library, VVittevrouwen Straat, contams 250,000 volumes and r,5oo MSS. (some very valuable). The reading-room is open on week-days, 11 to 4, Sundays. 10 to 3. The Archiepiscopal Museum, Nieuwe Gracht 20, admission daily, 10 to 4, 5° cents, contains illustrat'ons of all the branches of sacred art practised in the Netherlands, including altar-pieces, embroideries, ivory carvings and paintings. The Museum Kunstlielde, close to the Jacobsbrug (admission 10 to 4 daily 10 cents, Sundays and holidays, 1 to 4, free), is a picture gallery of the Utrecht School. Catalogue by Dr Bredius, 50 cents. There are three rooms on the ground floor and one large room above. The latter contains a large picture (occupying the whole of one wall) representing the siege of Leyden {see p. 5?)- The Antiquarian Museum is in the Hoogeland Park (open daily 10 10 4, admission 10 cents. Sunday and Wednesday, I to 4, free). Catalogue i J gulden ; small guide, 30 cents. The building is in the Greek style, and the fine collection consists of Roman and German antiquities, coins, medals, wood and ironwork, etc. Seven rooms on the ground floor, ten rooms on the second floor. ' At No. 84, Oude Gracht is the Huis Oudaen, dating from 1680, now used as an asylum for old people (may be visited). The Buurkerk, in the Buurkerkhof (sacristan No. 1 1), dates from about iioo, and has a much obliterated fresco and a broken altar in the wall, which is partly whitewashed. St. Janskerk, in the St. Janskeikhof, is a not very interesting Romanesque building. Contains tomb of Cardinal Wassnaer. In the Stadhuis (1830) are a few curious pictures and sketches an i a very interesting collection of antiquities; ad- mission, 10 cents. The National Mint (73, Oude Gracht), can be inspected on application to the director; 5c cents gratuity expected. The Boulevards have been formed out of the ancient ramparts. The Mall (Maliebaan) is one of the finest promenades in Europe. It is half a mile in length, AMSTERDAM TO AMERSFOORT. 103 forming an immense avenue, planted with triple avenues of lime trees. When Louis XIV spared little else in Holland, he spared this beautiful avenue. Bust of Burgomaster Reiger (d. 1908) close to the Maliebrug. Public concerts are given in the Hoogeland Park and in the Lucas bol Nerk during summer, also in the Tivoli Gardens, Sunday and Wednesday. Admission, 50 cents for the concerts. Environs. The neighbourhood of Utrecht is very well provided with en- joyable walks amidst gardens, parks and cultivated pastures. An interesting excursion by train or tramway may be recom- mended to — Zeist, the seat of a Moravian settlement numbering some 250 members, possessing many of their goods in common. They lead a simple, retired life, and in some respects resemble the Quakers in England. Tw^elve miles from Utrecht, near Baarn, (about J hour by rail) is the Chateau of Soestdyk {see below), presented to the Prince of Orange in 18 16 for services at the Battle of Waterloo. It is now the property of the Queen, and may be visited when the Royal Family is not in residence (fee 75 cents). Other excursions to de Bilt, Vreeswijk (huge locks of the Merwede canal connecting Amsterdam with the Rhine) and Ijsselstein. AMSTERDAM TO AMERSFOORT, {^nd Hilversum and Baarn). Distance 28^ miles, in 40 min. to i hour 10 min. Stations passed : as far as Hilversum, see p. 98 ; Baarn, Baarn ^ Hotel, ^ee pp. vii-viii), with a population of about 8,000, is a charming summer resort, frequented by Amsterdam residents. It is one of the healthiest places in Holland, and is surrounded on three sides by fine woods and the Royal Park (Baarnsche Bosch) which is always open to visitors. In the Park stands the Soestdijk Palace (see above), the summer residence of H.M. the Dowager Queen of Holland. Steam trams to Soestdijk and Soest. There are a number of interesting villages in the neighbourhood. Two may be specially mentioned for the picturesque costumes worn by the inhabitants, namely, Bunschoten and Spakenburg, small fishing villages within easy walking or riding distance, about 6 miles. 104 HOLLAND. Amersfoort (where the Utrecht and Amsterdam lines meet, 14 miles from the former, and 28^ miles from the latter) is a prosperous town of 24,000 inhabitants, situated on the Eem. The tower (3 1 2ft.) of the Church of St. Mary is one of the best examples of Gothic towers in Holland. The old ramparts, as in other towns, have been converted into gardens and walks, but some of the mediaeval gates remain. The Museum contains antiquities, chiefly from the neighbourhood. A few miles from Amersfoort, near the village of La^e Vuursche, is a i6th century chateau, the Slot Drakestein, well worth visiting. UTRECHT TO ROTTERDAM (Maas Station) Distance 33 miles, in 55 min. to i| hours. Stations passed : Vleuteity Har?nekn (junction for Amsterdam and Haarlem), IVoerden (junction for Leyden), Oudeivater^ Hekendorp^ Gouda (junction for The Hague), Moordrecht^ Nieuwerkerk^ Capelie, Kralingsche Veer, GOUDA. Steam Trams to Bodegraven. Steamers to Boskoop, etc., and Amsterdam several times daily, except Sundays ; to Haarlem daily, except Sundays ; to Rotterdam several times daily ; to Leyden and Haastrecht daily; to Leimuiden, Thursdays. Qouda (pop. 23,006), noted for its Qroote Kerk of St. John (fee 25 cents), containing over 40 fine stained-glass windows, dating from the sixteenth century, presented by princes, private persons, and cities after a fire in 1552. A descriptive catalogue is sold by the verger. The Town Museum has a good collection of antiquities, pictures and portraits. Admission 25 cents. The Stadhuis is a remarkable Gothic building with a Renaissance outside staircase. In this town dwelt Jacqueline of Bavaria. Her residence is now the Hotel de Ville. The manufactures are cheese, bricks and tobacco pipes. Boskoop (reached in about an hour, see above) is noted for its nursery gardens, which are well worth visiting when the flowers (lilacF., azaleas, rhododendrons, etc. ) are in bloom. 1 UTRECHT TO ZWOLE. 105 UTRECHT TO ZWOLLE. Distance 55 miles, in about i J to 2 J hours. Stations passed : de Bilt (junction for Baarn), Soesterberg, Amers/oorf (junction for Hilversum and Amsterdam, Apeldoorn and Zutphen, Kesteren, &c.), Nijkerk, Fuften, Ermdo-Veldivijk, Harderwijk, Hiihhorst, Nuns pee t, FJ/mrg-Oldebroek, Wezep, Hattem (junction for Apeldoorn and Dieren-Doesburg on the line between Zutphen and Arnhem). The line passes throusrh the Veluwe district, where the tobacco plant is extensively cultivated, before reaching Harderwijk, a small seaport on the Zuyder Zee, formerly the seat of a University, closed about a hundred years ago. Crossing the Ijssel the train arrives at Zwolle (Hotel, see pp. vii-viii) the capital of the province of Over-Ijssel, with a population of about 33,000. Trams in various directions through the town. Steam Trams to Coevorden and Nunspeet. Steamers to Kampen (see below) and Amsterdam ; to Meppel and Assen ; to Blokzijl ; to Den Ham ; to Genemuiden ; to Hasselt ; to Steenwijk. The Qroote Kerk (St. Michael) in the market place is a spacious Gothic building dating from 1406. Fine choir screen, carved pulpit and organ. A picturesque monument of the middle ages is the Sassen Poort, an old brick gateway with four towers. The Stadhuis (1447) contains an elegant Council Room, lavishly decorated, and elaborate chimney-pieces. The celebrated painter Gerard Terburg was born at Zwolle. Thomas a Kempis, the reputed author of ** De Imitatione Christi " (1380-147 i) died in a monastery on the Agnetenberg, 3 miles from Zwolle. Zwolle is the junction for Almtlo, etc. Branch line from Zwolle to Kampen, S miles. Kampen was formerly a highly prosperous port before the harbour became silted up ; it is now a quiet typical Dutch town. The fourteenth-century Gothic Church of St. Mary is a very handsome building as regards both the exterior and the interior. The Stadhuis, with a fourteenih-century fa9ade and a good deal of carved furniture in the principal rooms, contains a small collection of antiquities, tapestries, and portraits. Stean.ers to Amsterdam, Urk, Enkhuizen, Zwolle, Deventer and Zutphen. io6 HOLLAND. ZWOLLE TO LEEUWARDEN. Distance 58^ miles, in about i hour 40 min. to 2 hours 40 min. Stations passed : Berkum, Dedemmiart, Siaphorst, Meppel (junction for Groningen, etc.), Nijeveen, SteenwuK yviUem- soord, Peperga, Wolvega, Oudeschoot, Heerenveen (steam trams to Sneek, to Drachten, thence Veenwouden ; steamers to Sneek, Tuesdays and Saturdays, and Leeuwarden Thursdays), Akknim, Grouiv-Irnsum, Idaard-Roordahuizum, IVirdum. LEEUWARDEN. (Hotels, see pp. vii-viii.) Post & Telegraph Office, in the Tweebaks-Markt. Steam Trams to Franeker, Harlingen and Sneek, St. Jacobi-Parochie, thence BerHkum. Steamers to Dokkum, daily except Sundays ; to Grouw four times weekly ; to Heerenveen, Thursdays ; to Kollum vta Dokkum Fridays; to Langweer via Sneek Fridays; to Oosterend Fridays ; to Warga daily except Tuesdays and Sundays; to Wommels Fridays; to Woudsend, vta bneek Fridays. The Frisian language has little resemblance to that of the rest oi Holland, and is a good deal like English. The Frisian women, who are noted for their beauty, wear caps of silver or silver gilt, with ornaments, which are handed down from mother to daughter. These head dresses are bes*: seen on market-days (see below). Leeuwarden (junction for Harlingen, 15J miles), the ancient capital of Friesland, is an interesting old town of 36,000 inhabitants, with a large trade in agricultural produce, cattle and the manufacture of gold and silver wares. The cattle- market here (held on Fridays), is one of the largest m Holland. The Frisian Museum in the Koning-Straat contains a good collection of portraits, coins, antiquities and ethnographical specimens. Open daily 10 to 4 ; admission 25 cents; to porcelain collection 25 cents. Catalogue 25 cents. On the Ground Floor of the main building, in four rooms, are portraits, silver ware, faience and ivories. The Entresol of the main building contains portraits, water colours, etchings, and printed works. The First Floor has a collection, in six rooms, of antiquities and weapons, and in one room, No. 12, pictures of the nine- LEEUWARDEN TO GRONINGEN. 107 teenth century, by C. Bisschop^ D. Bles, W, Rorlofs, L. Apol^ H. W. Mesdag^ J. Israels^ and C. Daubigny. On the Second Floor a Natural History collection. In the Annexe a collection of Chinese, Japanese and Indian china ; in the gallery coins, medals, glass and tiles. Opposite the Museum, in the Kanselary, is the Provincial Library, containing the National Archives. The Stadhuis, Law Courts, the Old House of Correc- tion, and the Commercial Schools are the principal public buildings. The Park (Noorder-Plantage), on the site of the old bastions, is tastefully laid out. Concerts in summer on Sunday afternoons, 50 cents. Railway from Leeuwarden to Amsterdam, 126^ miles, in about 4J hours, via Meppel, ZwoUe, and Amersfoort {see pp. 106, 105, 104). Leeuwarden to Harlingen, 15^ miles, by railway, in about 40 minutes (or by steam trams in about 65 minutes.) Passing stations Deinum and Dronrijp the train arrives at Franeker, once the seat of a University until suppressed by Napoleon in 181 1. The fifteenth century church and the Stadhuis, containing portraits and an astronomical model of the motions of the sun, moon, and planets, are interesting. Steam trams to Leeuwarden, Harlingen and Sneek. Harlingen (Hotel, see pp. vii-viii), built on the site of a city that was destroyed by an inundation in 1134, is a town of 10,000 inhabitants, with a harbour, completed 1877. British Vlce-Consul.— Dirk Fontein. Harlingen is in direct communication with England by steamer, Wednes- days an-1 Saturdays to London ; also to liuU and Leith (see p. 3). Steam tramway to Sneek (p. 73). Steamer to and from the adjacent islands of Terschelling (British Vice-Consul.- Dirk Fontein) and Vlieland, daily. The statue, called de Steenen Man, on the sea-wall, was erected in memory of the Spanish Governor, Robles de Billy, who caused the town to be surrounded by dykes, after an encroachment by the sea in 1566. Leeuwarden to Stavoren {see p. 72) route reversed. LEEUWARDEN TO GRONINGEN. Distance 33^ miles, in about i to i^ hours. Stations passed : Tietjerk^ Hardegarijp, Veenwouden (steam trams to Drachten and Heerenveen and Dokkum), Zwaagwesi- einde, Buiienpost^ Visvlitt, Grijpskerk^ Zuidhorn^ Den Horn^ Hoogkerk- Vierverlaten, io8 HOLLAND. The route between Leeuwarden and Groningen is very monotonous. From Groningen the line continues eastwards to Nieuwe- schans, the Dutch frontier station (thence to Bremen, etc.) GRONINGEN. (Hotels, see pp. viiviii.) Railway Stations : Central (Hoofd Station) for all trains (buffet); Noorder Station for branch lines to Delfzijl (iSj miles) and Roodeschool (15^ miles). Post Office in the Poststraat ; open 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Telegraph Office in the Kattenhage; open 8 a.m. to 10 P.M. British Vice-Consul.— A. P. Schilthuis. Concerts in the summer in the Noorder Flantsoen and Sterrebosch alternately on Sunday afternoons. Electric Tramways : Several lines, including one from the Central Station, to the Noorder Station via the Groote Markt ; Steam Trams to Zuidlaren ; to Eelde ; Diligence to Siddeburen on Tuesdays. Steamers to Appingedam, and de Leek daily except Sundays ; to Delfzijl daily, except Sundays ; to Amsterdam, vta Sneek and Lemmer, daily except Mondays ; to Kollum, on Tuesdays; to Zoutkamp, Tuesdays and Fridays (and in summer to Schiermonnikoog, a small island, via Zoutkamp). Groningen (with a population of about 80,00 d) is the capital of the province of the same name, and is situated at the confluence of the Hoornsche Diep and the Drentsche Diep. A large trade is done here in rape-seed and other grains, and the canal connecting the town with the sea is navigable for vessels of considerable size. Groningen, the birthplace of J. Israels and H. W. Mesdag, the celebrated painters, is n jt only the most considerable town of the N. Netherlands from a commercial point of view, but is well laid out with wide streets, magnificent houses, pleasant gardens, and the extensive park (Noorder- Flantsoen) on the site of the dismantled ramparts, all of which, with the Sterre- bosch and its open-air restaurants, afford many attractions. In the large Market Place is thq GRONINGEN TO ZWOLLE. 109 Church of St. Martin, a handsome Gothic structure, with a tower (320 feet) like that of the Cathedral Tower at Utrecht ; opposite is the Stadhuis. restored in 1787. The University, founded in 1615, was rebuilt in 1909 after being destroyed in 1906, and is frequented by 500 students, with 52 professors. The University Library (open on week-days 10 to 4), contains a New Testament of Erasmus, with annotations by Luther. In the University building is the Museum of Natural History, open 10 to 5. In the Guyot-Plein is the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, one of the largest institutions of the kind in Europe, founded in 1790, which supports and educates over 200 inmates, who are examined in public every Wednesday morning. Beyond, in the Praedinius Singel is the Museum of Antiquities, a spacious brick building, erected in 1894, containing prehistoric and Roman antiquities, also works of modern art, as follows : — Basement, in three rooms, fonts and Roman antiquities, vases, stoneware, and architectural remains. Entresol, in six rooms, paintings by If. IV. Mesdag, chimney-pieces, portraits, instruments of torture, tapestry and porcelain. First Floor, in three rooms, porcelain, coins, gold and silver ware, glass, costumes; pictures by W. Maris, H. W. Mesdag^ A. Mauvre, A. Verwee, P. Gabriel, C. Bissckop, J, Maris, J, Israels and L. Alma-Tadema. Open daily, I to 5 ; 25 cents. Sundays, 10 cents. Catalogue, 10 cents. GRONINGEN TO ZWOLLE. Distance 65 miles, in 1 hour 40 min. to 2| hours. Stations passed : Haren, De Punt, Vries-Zuidlaren, Assert (junction for Stadskanaal, whence Zwolle via Coevorden ; steamers to Veenhuizen and Zwolle, daily except Sundays), Hooghalen, Beikfi, Wijster, Hoogeveefi, Echten, Koekange, Ruinerwold, Meppel (steam trams to Balkbrug, steamers to Zwolle and Assen, to Amsterdam, to Zwartsluis, all daily except Sundays); from Meppel to Zwolle, see p. 106, route reversed. no HOLLAND. Assen, (pop. 12,000), the capital of the province of Drenthe, a district remarkable (of the tumuli and burial places of the Stone Age, of which, at J^o/de, Gieten, Borger and other parts, more than 50 can be visited. The town of Assen has few buildings of interest, except the old thirteenth-century church now used as the Stadhuis, with an annexe containing the Town Archives and a Pro- vincial Museum. In the latter are some urns taken out of tumuli in the neighbourhood. ZWOLLE TO ALMELO. Distance 28 miles, in } to i hour. Stations passed : Zuthem, HeinOy Raalte, Haarle^ Hellen- doorn-Nijverdal^ Wierden. Almelo, a small town with about 10,000 inhabitants, has a fine church, wnth the family vault of the Rechteren-Limpurg family, whose castle is close by. The line continues to Hengelo for Oldenzaal, Enschede, Winterswijk. ALMELO TO DEVENTER. Distance 21 miles, in 35 min. to i hour. Stations passed : Wierden (see above), Rijssen (junction for branch line to Goor, Neede and Winterswijk), Holten^ Dijker- hoeky BathmeUy Colmschate, De venter (population about 28,000), is a prosperous town, famous for its carpets and honey-cakes (koeks). Its Gothic Qroote Kerk has an eleventh century crypt and a fifteenth century tower. In the Brink Square is the Waag (or Weigh- house), with an exterior staircase. The painter Terburg (born at ZwoUe, see p. 105), died here in 1681. Steam trams to Borculo ; Steamers to Zutphen daily except Sundays. DEVENTER TO AMERSFOORT {via Apeldoorn). Distance 37^ miles, in about ij hours. Stations passed : Ijsselbrugy TwellOy de Teuge, Apeldoorn (junction for Zutphen, Dieren-Doesburg, Hattem), Asse/y Stroe, Barneve/d- Voorthuizen (junction for Nijkerk and Ede). ZUTPHEN. Ill Apeldoorn (population about 35,000) an attractive town with numerous villas and two fine Parks (Oranje Park and Wilhelmina Park) is on the border of a forest and close (about 2^ miles) to the royal chateau (steam trams from Apeldoorn) of Het Loo, the summer residence of Queen Wilhelmina. Visitors are only admitted to the chateau in the Queen's absence, but to the grounds daily on application. DEVENTER TO ZUTPHEN AND ARNHEM. Distance : Deventer to Zutphen, 10 miles in 20 minutes ; Zutphen to Arnhem, t8| miles in 30 min. to 45 min. Stations passed : Snippeling, Colmschaky Epse, Gorssel, Zutphen (junction for Hengelo, Oldenzaal, Bentheim, Germany, etc.; for Winterswijk, Borken, etc., for Apeldoorn, etc.), Brummeny Dieren-Doesburg (junction for Apeldoorn ; steam trams to Velp, to Gendringen, Ijsselbrug, Germany, etc.) Steeg, Velpy Velperpoort. ZUTPHEN. (HoteL see pp. vii-viii.) Steam Trams through the town to Doetinchem and Emmerich ; to Eefde ; to Hengelo (passing Warnsveld, the scene of the battle of Zutphen, in which Sir Philip Sidney was mortally wounded in 1586). Steamers to Deventer and Amsterdam daily except Sundays. Zutphen, with a population of about 19,000, is situated at the confluence of the Berkel and Ijssel and has a large timber trade. The most important building is the Qroote Kerk (St. Walpurgis : for admission, 25 cents, apply at No. 9 opposite) dating from the twelfth century, but now being restored. It has a brass Renaissance Font, a Gothic candelabrum of partly gilded iron, a sculptured pulpit and a fine organ (both about 1700). There are a few frescoes round the pillars and on the walls. In the Chapter-house (notice the painted figures on the capitals of the columns) is an old pre-Reformation 'Library of about four hundred books (including old Bibles, 112 HOLLAND. illuminated missals, etc.), all of which are chained to the reading desks. Opposite is the Stadhuis (fifteenth century). In the Groenmarkt is the Wijnhuis, containing a collection of local antiquities (open daily lo to 12 and i to 4 ; admission 10 cents) ; the Tower (police-office on the ground floor) has- a good set of chimes. There are a number, of ancient brick dwellings in the Zaadmarkt, Groenmarkt, etc., which are interesting from the architectural point of view. Notice the Watertoren and the Nieuwstads-Poort. Through the latter Frederick of Toledo, son of the Duke of Alva, entered the town in 1572. Between Dieren-Doesburg and Arnhem the train crosses fine avenues of trees four or five time?. At Steeg the station is close to the side of the river Guelders Ijssel. ARNHEM. (Hotels, see pp. vii-viii.) Hotel Omnibuses meet trains. Post Office. — Jans Plein ; open 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 p.m. Sundays, 8 to 9.30 and 1 2 to 2 p.m. A fine new red-brick building. Telegraph Office. — Willems Plein. English Church Service.— In the Lutheran Mission Hall, Tuinstegg. Concerts on Sunday and Wednesday evenings in the Casino on the Reeberg (introduction necessary). Golf Links (9 holes) at Velp (see p. 114). • Cabs.— In the town 75 cents; outside, t J gulden the first hour, I gulden each succeeding hour. Electric Tramways through the town and to Velp. Steam Trams to Lent, Ede, VVageningen, and Driebergen (whence Zeist), Oosterbeek. Steamers to Amsterdam, Nijmegen and Bois-!e-Duc Mon- days, Wednesdays and Fridays ; Nijmegen daily ; Wageningen daily ; to Lobith Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Satur- days ; to Doorwerth daily ; to Rotterdam daily ; to Cologne, etc. (see p. 23). Arnhem, once the residence of the Counts and Dukes of Guelders, is still the capital of Guelderland (pop. 64,000). It is ARNHEM. I,- essentially a Dutch town, but has about it a dash of beautv and p,cturesqueness which few places in Holland present It t'he S °The ^ ^''"'' "^" '''' J""-^""" °f thft r'e" with me ijssel. The town was once strongly fortified but the ramparts are now turned into promenadls'and handsome ne^ thZ^l T®;*'" , "all is adorned with such monstrous figures that It IS locally called the Devil's House. The I.ibra^ is behind the Town Hall. i"e i.iorary is The Qroote Kerk (built in the fifteenth century, exterior Duke of Guelders, a handsome carved seventeenthcenturv pulpit and has a wonderful carillon, also a large organ (1760^ on which public recitals are given fortnightly on Tuesly afternoons (sacristan at No. 6, fee 25 cents) New stained glass window (1907) with twelve apoftles in ^asr^hef round "nol s'cJaoer Th"" ''''*=' "f '"^^^^'^ whitewashed but Ln n u^ k" • ^^^'^ ^'^ '°'"* ('tscoes, but in bad preserva- tion Oak choir screen. Near the Duke's tomb han^in^ against one of the columns is a figure of the Duke h; kneel nl posture in a suit of armour. The^ tower is 300 feet in heigh" info" ^^^ Z^^"" 'P^'^l '■^""'^ ^''^ ^^°°'« Kerk and extending into the K.ppenmarkt and Walburgstraat, a heterosenouf market of second-hand furniture, carp'ets, books, oddXs u2t ' " ^^- '^^' ^"^^'"'"^ '"^^'^«' -^ '" 'he Groote The Oemeente- Museum in the Market Place contain.; m one room on the first floor-staircase is very steep-port a "s sUver guild-cups, models, coins and seals. Admission free on Wednesdays 2 to 4 (May to October) and Sundays 10 30°" 1.30; other days 10 to 12 and 2 to 4, 25 cents. P.°,Vffi^ '°"i''u'''l^T °^ "'^ ^""'^^^ Place, between the old s2t?f D ^"f ""n ^°''' ^""^ P^y^-^^a^' '^ a" °'d gateway, °he Sabels Poort, all that remains of the town walls Walburg Straat leads from the Groote Markt to the St Walburir Kerk. the oldest Roman Catholic church in Arnhem, with two towers, fine stained-glass windows (irved pulpit and richly-gilt altar. vinaows, carved T> J^l ^^^ ^' Sonsbeek is beautifully wooded, with Lake Belvedere Tower and Cafe, ' ' Ill, : 114 HOLLAND. The Reeberg. west of the town, has extensive pleasure grounds aiid a Casino. Concerts on Sunday and Wednesday evenings in summer. The Environs of Arnhem are delightful ; they abound with villas, parks and gardens, and streams that do not seem to lund still, as in other parts of Holland, but actually flow. Among the spots to be visited by those who can spend a few hours here are Hartjesberg, with fine prospect from the Belvedere ; Klarenbeek, the Chateau of Rozendaal , the village of Velp (golf, 9 hole course of the Arnhem Golf Club) Stecg (for the Chateau of Middachten), etc. Many of the parks and woods in this neighbourhood are freely open to the public. From Arnhem, Cleves (see The Traveller's Handbook for the Rhine, ^z.) is bu^T^h^rt dis ance via Zevenaar and Elten. At Elt^n the line branches off to Emmerich (German Custom House), &c. The Dutch Custom House Examination takes place at Zevenaar commg from Germany. NIIMEGEN. 15 ARNHEM TO UTRECHT. Distance 35J miles, in 50 minutes to i hour 25 minutes. Stations passed : Oosttrheek (Hoog), Wolfhezen Ede (steam trams to Wageningen), Veenendaal-de Klomp, Maarsbergen Maarn, Drithergen (golf course-^steam trams to Arnhem) Bunnik, ARNHEM TO VENLO. Distance 50 miles, in i hour 40 minutes to 2J hours. Stations passed : Oosterhtek (Hotel, see pp. vii-viii), Elst (junction for York, Kesteren, Geldermalsen, for Rotterdam and Amsterdam), Ressen-Bemmel, Lent, Nij fnegen {]nnCtxon Jox Bois-le-Duc and Cleves), Mook-Middelaar, Cutjk, Kruispunt Beugen, Beugen-Rijkevoort, Boxmeer, Vierhngsbeek, Venraij, Meerlo- Tienraij, Grubbenvorst-Lottum Grubbenvorst-K hosier, BUrik, NIJMEQEN. (Hotels, see pp. vii-viii.) Post and Teleg:raph Offices in Van Brockhuizen Straat Concerts, in summer, on Sunday afternoons in the Valkhof grounds, free. Steam Trams to. Wamel, Beek, Neerbosch, Berg-en-Dal (fine view). ^ Omnibus to Grave on Mondays. Steamers to Bois-le-Duc, Arnhem, Lobith, Rotterdam, Tiel. Nijmegen (pop. 55,000) was the Roman Noviomagus, and in the seventeenth century was one of the Dutch frontier fortresses. At the siege of Nijmegen in 1672 Marlborough served as a capiam under the great Turenne. In 1884 the old fortifications were demolished, and broad promenades laid out in their place. A few hours may be well devoted to Nijmegen the environs rivalling those of Arnhem in beauty. Town Hall (1554) ; exterior covered with statues of German Emperors. Inside are shown the sword with which Counts Egmont and Hoorn were beheaded ; a painting called the Riddle of Nijmegen ; portraits of the Ambassadors of France Spain and Holland, who drew up the Treaty of 1678 : and a few Roman antiquities. The Groote Kerl< (St. Stephen) dates from 1272 ; ancient choir and monument of Catherine of Bourbon. Fine view from tower. In the vicinity are a few fragments of ruins. Notice especially the chapel once appertaining to the Castle of the Valkhof, traditionally associated with Charlemagne and Julius Ciesar. The views from the Belvedere (ascent 10 cents) of the Rhine, Waal, Ijssel, and Maas are very striking. Venlo is a town of about 17,000 inhabitants and the station for the Dutch Custom-House examinations for travellers coming from Germany. It has often been besieged in the sixteerith and eighteenth centuries, but its fortifications were demolished in 1868. Venlo is an important railway junction, lines branchino: at this point to Eindhoven (see p. 119) Wesel Grefeld and Diisseldorf, Munchen-Gladbach, etc. See T/ie Traveller's Handbook for the Rhine, etc. Steam Trams to Steijl, to Beringen. Steamers to Roermond and Rotterdam; to Cologne (see P- 23). I 2 ii6 HOLLAND. VENLO TO MAASTRICHT. Distance 43i niiles, in ij hours to 2 hours 10 minutes^ <;r,tmns oassed • Tegelen, Bdfeld, Reuver, Swalmen, -R^mZd (Eon for Vheim. Dusseldorf, Hamont-for SWrrTounction for Herzogenrath), Geken, Beek-Elsloo, Geulle, Bunde. Maastiicht is perhaps more conveniently reached from Liege in W^Sum (see n. Trai^eUer's Handbook for Belgium) from whSuTdttanTabout ,6 miles only but being in Holland a description of the town is of course included here. The line from Venlo almost parallels the course of the Maas river. , Roermond (pop. 13,°°°) «'>" P-'-^erves ^e ^^T^*^ ° an old Limburg town. It is on the r.ght bank of the Maas at its junction with the Roer. , , . , k.>^„ The Munster Kerk dates from 1224, but has lately been restored Tomb of Gerard of Nassau (d. 1229) and h.s wife Margaret of Brabant. MAASTRICHT. (Hotels, see pp. vii-viii.) The Railway Station (buffel) is in the suburb of Wijk, about a mile from the centre of the town. Post and Telegraph Office : St. Jacob Straat Horse Tramway from the Station to the Vrijthof. Ca"rSc to the Petersberg Caverns (... p. ii8) and back, ^ Sulmersto Liege several times daily (see The Traveller's Handbook for Belgium). ^ Maastricht (or Maestricht) derives its name ^^om the r.^^^^ Maas on which it stands ; population 37,000. The town was toCn hv assault in i^oo by the Duke of Parma, and 8,000 ot wXSllTf England attempted it and failed. It is strongly SS and conne^ with the. suburb f ^i k by a b^^^^^^^^^^ nine arches. Just before crossing the nvcr the Recht btraat MAASTRICHT. 117 leads (right) to the modern brick-built Gothic Church of St. Martin. Fine interior. Crossing the river by the Maas Bridge the Brug Straat leads into the Kleine Straat and brings us to the so-called Old Stadhuis, at the corner of the Joden Straat, containing a small Museum of Antiquities (admission 25 cents). Turning right the Munt Straat leads to the Groote Markt in which is the Stadhuis (open week-days 9 to 6 ; Sundays and holidays 9 to i ; fee, 50 cents) dating from the seventeeth century. The central hall is finely proportioned. Bronze balustrade round three sides of a gallery on the first floor. In the Burgo- master's Room on the ground floor are a few pictures, also in several other rooms on the same floor. The Salle de la Reine contains portraits of former burgomasters ; silk hangings on the wall. On the south-west side of the Vrijthof (following the tram lines from the corner of the Toden Straat) ara the Church of St. Servatius and the Protestant Church. This square witnessed the beheading of William de la Marck, the " Wild Boar of the Ardennes," in 1485 (cf. Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward), St. Servatius is the oldest church in the Netherlands, although much modernized ; part dates from the sixth century (Sacristan, No. 5 Keizer Karlplein at the side of the south porch. Fee, including both crypts and the treasury, i gulden). The two eastern towers were restored in 1842. The Emperor's Hall is a chamber with a domed roof above the organ, reached by two winding staircases (i gulden extra or \ gulden if visited without attendant). Statue of Charlemagne in front of the narthex. In the raised choir behind the high altar is a reliquary of St. Servatius in the form of a church, ornamented with precious stones, etc. In the Treasury are a number of articles belonging to the patron saint and other relics, also a few pictures. There are two crypts, the lower with the tomb of St. Servatius. The Protestant Church (fifteenth century) has a tower 250ft. in height. On the way to the Church of Notre Dame through Breede Straat (leading from the Vrijthof) the Theatre is passed on the left. It dates from 1612 and was restored or rebuilt in 1889. ir8 HOLLAND. Notre Dame (eleventh century), was restored in 1895. The large crypt under the raised choir dates from the thirteenth century ; another and older crypt is under the western tower. Carved pulpit. (Sacristan, Haven Straat 15, fee for treasury and crypt 25 cents). c^ * n- . Leaving Notre Dame the Korte Straat leads to St. Pieter Straat, where is the Minderbroederskerk (thirteenth century), restored in 1880. o. *. Continuing (right) along the Oude Mmderbroeders Straat brings us to the Helpoort (dating from 1229, but restored) and some other remains of the old town walls, adjommg the Stadspark (Concerts several times weekly in summer), by the side of the Maas river. In the vicinity of Maastricht are some very wonderful sub- terranean caves of old sandstone quarries, which honeycomb the Petersberg, whose windings measure some ten or twelve miles. They can be reached by steamer, carriage (see p. 116), or on foot, from Maastricht, but should never be visited without an experienced guide. Several lives have been lost through neglect of this i)recaution. For Maastricht to Liege, see T/ie Traveller's Guide to Belgium. MAASTRICHT TO AIX-LA-CHAPELLE. Distance 22 J miles, in about i hour, allowing for alteration in time. Stations passed : Meerssen, Houthem-St. Gerlach, Valken- hurg, Wijlre-Gulpen (buvette), Simpelveld, Bocholtz. Re- staurant at Aix-la-Chapelle (in Prussia, German Custom House Examination or at Simpelveld in the reverse direction), where Mid European time, 40 min. in advance of Dutch (Amsterdam) time, is kept. Meerssen is where the treaty between Lewis the German and Charles the Ba^d was made in 870. Fine Gothic Church. Valkenburg, an old town situated on the Geul, now a summer resort and sanatorium, is a delightful centre for excur- sions (Hotel, see pp. vii-viii). In the *' Berg " (close to the Grendel-Poort, entrance near the monument commemorating the jubilee of the union of the province of Limburg with Holland) are the Valkenburg Qrottoes, resembling those of the Petersberg {see above). TILBURG TO ROSENDAAL. 119 Admission, one or two persons, i gulden ; reduction for larger parties. Smaller grottoes may be visited, the charges varying from 10 cents to 30 cents. The highest point in Holland (790 feet), is in this neigh- bourhood. At Simpelveld is the Dutch custom-house. The German frontier is crossed and the train reaches Aix-la-Chapelle (Restaurant at station). (For description see The Traveller's Handbook for the Rhine ^ etc.) VENLO TO TILBURQ. Distance 55^ miles, in about 1J-2 hours. Stations passed : Blerik^ Horst-Sevenum^ America^ Helena- veen, Deurne, Helmond^ Nuenen-Tongelre^ Eindhoven (junction for Achel, Belgium), Acht^ Best, Boxtel (junction for Bois-le- Duc, Goch, etc.), Oisterwijk, Helmond (pop. 7,000) is on the Zuid-Willems-Vaart, one of the largest of Holland's canals. Steam Trams to Veghel and Bois-le-Duc, to Eindhoven and Asten. Eindhoven is a small manufacturing town (pop. 5,500), pleasantly situated, with a modern Gothic church. Steam Trams to Bois-le-Duc, Helmond and Asten, to Reusel, and Belgium. Boxtel (pop. 8,000), at the confluence of the Beerze and Dommel, is a railway junction (buffet) for various lines, to Bois-le-Duc and Utrecht, to Goch, etc., to Tilburg and Rosendaal. At Tilburjf railway lines diverge to Bois-le-Duc, Breda, Baarle-Nassau, Turnhout (Belgium), etc. Steam Trams to Breda, to Bois-le-Duc, Esbeek, and Belgium, etc. TILBURQ TO ROSENDAAL. See p. 33, part of route reversed. From Rosendaal train is taken to Flushing (see pp. 29-32, route reversed) whence steamer to Folkestone or Queenboro', (see p. 2), or to the Hook of Holland (see pp. 35, 38 and 20, route reversed) whence steamer to Harwich (see p. 2). 120 HOLLAND. DAY TOURS IN HOLLAND (From Amsterdam). Recommended by Thos. Cook & Son, of whom tickets may be obtained in advance at fares ranging from 30 cents to 25 gulden 95 cents, at their Offices, 83, Damrak, Amsterdam, where arrangements may also be made for Motor Car Excursions. To the Isle of Marken, Volendam, Monnikendam, and Broek. In summer an express service runs to the island, visiting Volendam, Monnikendam, and Broek. A very good lunch can be obtained at Volendam, Hotel Spaander, where Cook's Coupons are accepted. From Amsterdam by steam yacht on the Zuyder Zee to the Isle of Marken and Volendam, returning by the canals, stopping at and visiting the " dead cities " of Monnikendam and Broek daily during the season, leaving 9.30 a.m., returning to Amsterdam at about 4.45 p.m. New Circular Tour to the " Dead Cities," Isle of Marken, &c. Since June, 1905, a new Circular Excursion has been organized from Amsterdam by steamer, steam tram, " hotter " (native sailing boat), and " treykschuyt " (towed houseboat), or tram, stopping at the following " dead cities " : Broek, Monnikendam, the Isle of Marken, Volendam (the great attraction for painters), and Edam. To Ijmuiden. From Amsterdam by screw steamer via the North Sea Canal, a trip of i^ hours. The huge breakwater, with its 56 locks, is one of the sights of Holland. Leave Amsterdam four times daily. From Ijmuiden four times daily. To Zaandam. From Amsterdam by steamer, leaving at frequent intervals, the journey occupying 30 minutes each way. In this interest- ing town is the hut occupied by Peter the Great in 1697 while studying the paper-making and ship-building industries of Zaandam, working as a ship carpenter to facilitate his observa- tions. TOURS. 121 To Zaandijk. From Amsterdam by steamer, leaving at frequent intervals, a journey occupying one hour each way, along the pictuiesuue Z.aan River, on whose banks there are no less than 400 wind- mills, used for all manner of purposes, from grinding corn to pulpmg paper. ^ To Alkmaar. By train in 50 minutes ; by boat in 2f hours, or by train one way and boat the other. The market day is Friday, iivery Friday (if more than three persons book on Thursday) a Conducted Excursion will be made to Alkmaar and Zaandam. To the Helder. From Anisterdam by train (i^ hours), returning in the after- noon vta Alkmaar and Zaandam. This, the most exposed end of North Holland, is protected in all directions by massive granite dykes, giving a graphic idea of the difficulties encountered by the Dutch people in saving their land from the encroach- ments of the sea {see p. 69). To **Het Qooi." From Amsterdam by train (l hour) to Hilversum, where a number of Amsterdam merchants reside ; then steam tram to Laren, Blaricum (Jan Tabak restaurant in pretty wood). Muiden and Amsterdam, 2J hours. To Leyden, etc. Train to Leyden (40 minutes) ; thence by steamer about noon z^/^ Hermans Wetering, Braassemer and Kager Lakes, returning to Leyden about 4.30 p.m. Lunch on board if desired. Boating Excursion by Fop Smit's Steamers. From Rotterdam daily (March to September) to Dordrecht (I J hours) and Gorcum (3 hours) and back. Special tickets for Loevenstein Castle, June ist to September 15th. Day and night service across the Zuyder Zee from Amsterdam to Lemmer, in connection with Friesland steam trams. 122 HOLLAND. N.B.-Special arrangements for Yachting Tours in Fries- land, &c. Motor-car excursions to any part of the Netherlands and other countries. TOURS FOR LONGER THAN ONE DAY Tickets available fur 30 days and Hotel Coupons can be issued in connection therewith. Tour No. I. By train from Amsterdam to Amhem (ij hours), for ex- cursions in its beautiful environs to Nijmegen ^nd Beek &a By afternoon train to Zutphen (J hour). On the fol'o^ "g morning to Apeldoorn (25 mins.), ^"•"^"^^'.^^'^^"'^f ^^^^^^. Oueen eoing same afternoon to Hilversum (li hours; J?« below To' carriage drives), and thence to Amsterdam (30 mins.). Tour No. 3. By train from Amsterdam to Amhem (.1 hours), re^am^^^^^ over night and proceeding by morning tram to Zutphen (i hour ^^ or to Deventer (i hour), thence to Gromngen by afternoon train (about 3 hours) ; next day in the afternoon to Leeuwarden rio li hour's) ; nexi morning vtd Sneek to Stavoren, connec mg boat to Enkhuizen, and connecting tram to Hoorn (2J hours), returning in the afternoon to Amsterdam (li hours). Tour No. 3* Same trip, but from Zwolle or Deventer direct to Leeuwarden. Tour No. 4. From Amsterdam to Hilversum in i an hour (for carriage drives see below); in the afternoon to Apeldoorn (ij hours), the Queen's summer residence, and same day on to Zutphen (2q mins.) : from there 7>m Deventer and Zwolle to Leeuwarden ( Aours), and from Leeuwarden to Harlingen (30 mms.) and back ; returning from Leeuwarden to Amsterdam, as mentioned in Tour 2. TOURS. 123 Carriage Drives recommended round Hilversum, THROUGH ITS BEAUTIFUL ENVIRONS:- Sg.lo^cenL^''''^ Laienberg): i or 2 persons, 5 gul. ; 3 or 4 persons, II g.'^SoTenti'"'^ ^"""""^ : I or 2 persons, 6g. 7$ cents ; 3 or 4 persons, 6^ co^?n?«^1'' ^^^ ^"""^^'^ ^^^^''' ''Soestdijk"): i or 2 persons. o g. 50 cents ; 3 or 4 persons, 1 1 g. r » i..r^t!;T' ^'''^ ^^^ Queen's Palace, - Soestdijk") : i or 2 persons. 10 g. 75 cents ; 3 or 4 persons, 18 g. 25 cents. Coachmen's Fees extra. The Park and Palace of " Soestdiik " can be ViSited (small entrance fee) when the Royal Family is not in residence. These carriage drives can be made in one day from Amsterdam by takmg train to Hilversum and back (30 mins.). Special Notice.— Thos. Cook & Son give notice that all tickets or coupons sold by them for conveyance by rail, steam- boat, boat, coach, carriage, diligence, or car, or for hotel accommodation, are issued by them on the express condition that they shall not be liable for any injnry, loss, accident, delay, or irregularity which nay be occasioned by reason of any defect in any vehicle, or through the neglect or default of any Company or person engaged in conveying the passenger or of any hotel proprietor, or of any other person engaged in carrying out the purpose for which the tickets or coupons are respectively issued. 124 HOLLAND. CONDUCTED TOURS IN HOLLAND. Conducted Tours to Holland and the Dead Cities of the Zuyder Zee leave London frequently during the summer, visiting Amsterdam, the Isle of Marken, Monnikendam, Broek, Purmerend, Hoorn, Haarlem, Leyden, The Hague, Scheveningen, Rotterdam, etc. Conducted Tours leave London fortnightly from June to September to Holland, The Rhine, and Bels:ium for a Thirteen Days' Tour, visiting The Hague, Scheveningen, Amsterdam, the Isle of Marken, Monnikendam, Broek, Cologne, The Rhine, Bingen, the Castle of Rheinstein, Wiesbaden, Brussels, and Antwerp. Short Conducted Tours to Holland leave the Provinces fortnightly during the season, visiting The Hague, and Amsterdam. Write for illustrated booklets of Conducted Tours, sent post free. INDEPENDENT TOURS IN HOLLAND, To start any day. I — London, Harwich, Hook, Rotter- dam and back, available 2 months ... 2 — London, Harwich, Hook, The Hague and back, available 2 months ... 3 — London, Queenboro, Flushing, Rosendaal, Dordrecht, Rotter- dam, The Hague and back, available 2 months 4 — London, Harwich, Hook, Rotter- dam, Gouda, Breukelen, Amster- dam and back, available 2 months ... 5— London, Flushing, Middleburg, Breda, Bois-le due, Nymegen, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leyden, The Hague, Delft, Rotterdam, Dordrecht, Flushmg, I^ndon, available 30 days First Class. L s. d. 210 6 2 10 10 Second Class. £, s- d. 1 13 10 I 13 II 2 10 TO I 13 II 2 15 II ; I 18 7 2 10 TOURS. 125 7- 8 9— 10- — London, Hook, Rotterdam, Nymegen, Arnhem, Zwolle, Groningen, Stavoren, Amster- dam, The Hague, Hook, Harwich, London, available 60 Udya ... ... ,,, ,, -As No. 4, with extension to Volendam, The Isle of Marken, Edam, available 2 months, via Harwich Ditto, via Flushing London, Harwich, Hook, Rotter- \ dam. The Hague, Leyden, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Enkhui- zen, Stavoren and back same way, available 60 days ... London, Flushing, Rosendaal, Delft, Rotterdam, The Hague, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Enkhui- zen, Stavoren, Leeuwarden, Groningen, Meppel, Zwolle, Deventer, Amersfoort, Am- sterdam and back to London, available 60 days London, Hook, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amersfoort, Deventer, Zutphen, Arnhem, Amster- dam, Haarlem, The Hague (for Scheveningen), Schiedam, Rotterdam, Hook, London, available 60 days 4 5 3 3 2 2 3 4 3 3 3 II 3 Second Class. £» X. d. 2 2 4 10 4 10 2 18 8 6 Fares liable to change. Fares for any other routes will be quoted on application to Thos. Cook & Son, Ludgate Circus, London. 126 FESTIVALS, KERMESSES, FETES, FAIRS, ETC. [The Editor will feel much indebted to travellers who will kindly favour him with information of other events to add to the list. J Placb. Amsterdam DATK. DKSCRII'TIOX. Whitsun-week The " Niederrheinische Musikfest." Bois-ie-Duc ... July 7-16 Journey through the town, with statue of Virgin, each evening. Goes Haarlem Middelburs: Early in Sept. Kermesse. 1st Sunday in Aug. to 2nd Monday after Kermesse. 4th Thursday in July... ... Fair b sting 10 days. Rotterdam ... 2nd Monday in Aug. and 1 1 following days Kermesse. *s Hertogenbosch {see Bois-le-Duc). Viaardingen ... June 14 ... Prayers for success of the herring fishing. June 15 ... General Holiday. Fleet of herring boats sets sail. 127 CLASSIFIED VOCABULARY OF WITH THEIR DUTCH EQUIVALENTS. See a/so p. 7. Dutch pronunciation is more guttural than German. The vowels a, e, /, t >> I* »> u i> PAGE Amsterdam and Grange- mouth 3, 77 ,, Haarlem 99 „ Hull 3, 77 „ Leith 3, 77 ,, Liverpool 77 ,, London ... 4, 77 ,, Southamp- ton ... 77 ,, Utrecht ... 99 Admirals' Room (Rijks Museum) $7 Antiquarian Society ... 87 Aquarium 93 Arti et Amicitiae, Society of Painters 92 Blind Asylum 90 Botanical Gardens... 91, 93 Bourse 83 Burger Weeshuis 92 Cabs 76 Canals to the Sea 95 Carriage Drives ... 80 City Gates 94 Coins Collection S7 Concert.*; ... 77, 90, 93, 98 Consuls 76 Coolc's Offices ... 76, 80 Criers' Tower 93 Crystal Palace ... 77, 93 Dam 81 De Ruyter's House ... 94 Description (General) ... 78 Diamond-Cutting 94 Docks and Dockyards ...92, 93 Dutch Museum 84 Dykes 92 Ecclesiastical Art 84 English Church 76 138 INDEX. PAGE Amsterdam (confinned) — Engravings, Cabinet of ... 87 Excursions 98 Felix Meritis ... ... 91 Glass and Jewellery Col- lections ... 84 Haarlemer Poort ... ... 94 Harbour and Quays •■•92,95 History ... ... 77 Jewellery Collection ... 84 Katten Island 93 Laren Gallery ... ... 91 Lees Museum . 77. 92 Library ... 87 ,, (University) ... 91 Lopez-Suasso Collection ... 90 Medico - Pharmaceutical Museum ... ... ... 90 Metal Cross (Dam) ... 93 Muider Poort 94 Municipal Museum ... 89 Museum Amstelkring ... 83 Museum Fodor 90 „ of Chinese, Japanese and Indian Curiosities .. 93 Museum Willet-Holthuysen 91 National Guard Museum .. 90 National (Rijks) Museum... 83 Naval Academy 93 Nieuwe Kerk ... ... 82 North Holland Canal ... 96 North Sea Canal ... ... 96 OldTolhuis ... 77.98 Orphan Asylums ... 92, 94 Oude Kerk 82 Panopticon... ... ... 93 Panorama 93 Parks ... .. .». 93 Picture Galleries ... 87, 90 Porcelain and Lacquer Work 87 Post and Telegraph Office 76 Private Collections of Paintings ... ... 91 Quays 92 Railway, Electric ... ... 76 Railway Stations 75 Reading Room ... ... 77 Rembrandt Annexe (Rijks Museum) 88 Rembrandt's House ... 94 Statue ..1 ... 94 Amsterdam {continued) — Rijks Museum „ „ Plan of Royal Palace Scottish Church Secular Architecture Shops " Six " Collection ... Stadhuis Steamers ,, Ocean ... Theatres, &c. Tolhuis, Old Tower of Royal Palace Tramways ... University II PAGE . 83 . 85-6 81 . 76 . 84 n 91 . 83 . 76 . 77 77 77.98 82 . 76 . 91 Van den Vondel's Statue ... 90 Van der Hoop Collection.. 89 Variety Theatres 77 Vondelpark 77. 9^ Willemspark ... ... 90 Willet-Holthuysen Museum 91 Zeemanshoop 92 Zoological Gardens 77, 92 ,, Museum ... 93 Anna Paulowna ... ... 69 Antwerp ... 3°. 32, 33. 116 Antwerp (Dam) 32 Apeldoorn ... 105,110,111 Appingedam ... ... ... 108 Area, Population ... ... 16 Arkel ... ... ... ••• 37 Army and Navy 18 Arnemuiden ... ... ••• 3^ Arnhem 23, 29, 34, 38, 77, 1 12, 114, 115 and Utrecht ... 114 „ Venlo ... 114 Cabs 112 Casino (Reeberg) 114 Concerts 112, 114 English Church Service ... 112 Environs ... 114 Gemeente Museum ... 113 (iolf Links II2, 114 Groote Kerk 113 Library ... ... ... 113 Markets ... ... ... 113 Omnibuses... 112 Park (Sonsbeek) 113 Post Office i;2 INDEX. 139 PAGE PAGE Arnhem {continued \ — Beugen ■ a • • • • 33 Reeberg • • • ... 114 Beugen- Rijkevoort • • • • • • 114 Sabels Poort ... 113 Beverwijk • • • 66,67 . 77 St. Walburg Kerk... •. 113 Blaricum • • • • •• 121 Steamers . . . • • • ... 112 Blerik • • • 114, 119 Telegraph Office • • ■ ... 112 Bloemendaal ... • • « 62, 65 ..66 Town Hall... • • • ... 113 Blokzijl • ■ • • • ■ 105 Tramways ... • • « ... 112 Blokker ■ • • ■ • • 72 Asperen • • • ... 38 Bobeldijk-Berkhout • • • • • • 70 Assel ... • • • ... no Bocholtz ... • • • 118 Assen 105. 109, 1 10 Bois-le-Duc 23, 33, 35. 37, 38, 112, Asten • • • ... 119 114, 115, 119 Avenhorn ■ > • 73. 74 Bolsward « • • 73 ». n .Axel ... ... • • ■ 30 Bommel (Den) ■ • • • • • 23 Books relating to Holland, B. List of ... • • • ... 13 Borculo • • • • t • no Baarle-Nassau • • • ... 119 Borger • • a • • • no Baarn 100, 103, 105 Borken • • • ... III Baarnsche Bosch ... 103 Boskoop • • • 77, 104 Baggage Forwarding De- Bo venkarspel -G roote broek . . 72 partment ,. ... 7, 12 Boxmeer « • • ... 114 Baggage Insurance 6 Boxtel ■ • • 33. 119 Balk - n Bozum • • • 72 Balkbrug ... 109 Braassemermeer ... 61, 121 Banking 8 Breda 32, ZZy 35, 119 Barendrecht ... ... ... 38 Brederode Castle • ■ • • • • 66 Barneveld-Voorthuizen ... no Brederodesche Berg (Castle) 66 Bathmen . . . ... no Breskens ■ • • 29 Ptattle of Zutphen ... ... Ill Breukelen * • 1 • • • 99 Beck ... 115 Brielle(Briel)... • • • 20, 23 Beek-Elsloo ... ■ . * ... 116 Broekerhaveu • • • 72 Beemster (Polder) ... ... 74 Broek-in-Waterland 74. 75. 76, 99. Beers . . . ... 72 120 Beerze River ... ... ... n9 Brouwershaven 32 Beesd ... ... - 37 Brummen III Beilen ... ... 109 Budel ... 75 Belfeld ... ... n6 Buiksloot 75 Benningbroek-Sijbekarspel ... 71 Buitenpost 107 Bentheim ... Ill Bunde . . . 116 Berg-en -Dal ... ... 115 Bunnik 114 Bergen aan Zee ... I 9. 67. 69 Bunbchoten 103 Bergen -op-Zoom 30.32 Burg (Den) 70 Bergen 67,69 Bussum 76 Beringen ... 115 Berkel-Enschot ••• 33 c. Berkel River ... ... Ill Berkum ... 106 Calmpthout ... ■ • • • ■ • 32 Berlikum ... ]o6 Canals • •• ■ • • 18 A^C9 C • • • • ■ • .. 119 Capelle • • • • • • 104 Betting • •• .. 19 Cappellen • • ... • • t 32 140 INDEX. FAGB Castricum 66, 67 Churches 13 Circular Tours (Cook's) from Amsterdam 120-123 Cleves 114 Climate iS Cockadorp (Den) 7° Coevorden 105, 109 Colmschate no, iii Cologne ... 23, 35, 112, 115 Colonies 18 Conducted Tours ... 124 Crefeld "S Cuijk ... .. ... 114 Culemborg ... ... 23, 38 Currency 8 Custom House Examina- tions 4-6 Cycling II D. 116 18 Dalheim ... Dams or Dykes Day Tours in Holland (from Amsterdam 120-1 " Dead Cities of the Zuyder Zee" 95. 120 De Bilt 100, 103 De Corksdorp 7° Dedemsvaart ... ■•. 106 De Haak ... ... .•• 20 Deinum ... ... ••• io7 Delfshaven 28, 94 Delft 23, 38, 39. 41, 56 ,, and The Hague ... 40 Cemetery 40 Gemeente Museum . 39 Huis Lamliert van Meerten 40 National Arsenal 40 New Church 40 Old Buildings 39 Old Church 39 Post and Telegraph Office 39 Prinsenhof 39 Stadhuis ••■ 40 Steamers 39 Tramways 40 Delfzijl 108 De Leek ... ... ••• 108 PAGE 39 23 70 105 107 109 De Lier Den Bommel ... Den Burg Den Ilam Den Horn De Punt De Steeg {se^ Stoeg). De Teuge Deurne Deventer ... 77» io5» ■ '<>' ^^^ ,, and Amersfoort ... no ,, ,, Arnhem ,, ,, Zutphen De Vink no 119 Dieren-Doesburg Dijkerhoek Doetinchem ... Dogs Dokkum Domburg Dommel River Doorwerth 105, ... ni ... ni 56 no, ni ... no ni 7 106, 107 30. 32 ... n9 ... n2 Dordrecht .23, 33, 35, 38, 121 Dordrecht and Arnhem or Nijmegen ... ••• 37 Dordrecht and Rotterdam 23, 37, 38 Consul 35 Dordrecht Museum ... 37 (Iroote Church (Gothic) ... 36 Groothoofds Poort 36 Nieuwekerk 37 Old Catholic Church .., 37 Oud-Dordrecht Museum ... 36 Post and Telegraph Office... 35 Railway Station 35 South African Museum ... 37 Stadhuis ... ... ... 36 Statue ... ••• ••• 36 Steamers 35 Steam Ferries 35 Tramway ... .-. ■•• 35 Dorst ... ... ... •■• 33 Dort, see Dordrecht. Drachten 106, 107 Drakestein, Slot 104 Drentsche Diep 108 Driebergen n2, n4 Driehuizen 66 Dronrijp 107 Duivendrecht 99 Dundee and Rotterdam ... 3 INDEX. 141 PAGE Dunes ... ... ... 62 Dtisseldorf ... ... n5, n6 Dutch and English Voca- bulary 127-136 Dykes or Dams 18 E. X-jOiI L ••• ■•• ••• ••• IIO Echteld ... ... ... ^y Echten ... ... ... 109 Edam ... 7^, 74, 75, 76, 99, 120 Ede no, n2, n4 18 • • • ■ • J ^ 5 Ill 108 104 • 19,67,69 • • • • • "k 34, 115. ii9 Flushing: PAGE 23, 28, 29, 30, 1 19 Education Eeckercn Eede Eefde Eelde ... Eem River Egmond aan Zee Eijsden Eindhoven Elburg-Oldebroek 105 Elst 38, n4 Elten 114 Emmerich ni, n4 English and Dutch Vocabulary ... 127-136 English Churches ... .. 13 Enkhuizen ... 69, 70, 72, 105 „ and Stavoren and Leeuwarden ... 72 " En Pension " Arrangements 9 Enschede no Epse Ill Ermelo-Veldwijk ... ... 105 Esbeek n9 Esschtn ... 32 Etten-Leur 33 F. Fairs, &c 126 Fees 10 Festivals, Kermesses, Fetes, Fairs, &.c, 126 Fiienoord 38 Fishing 12, 70 >j j> and Amsterdam ... 29 ,, Rosendaal ... 30 ,, ,, Terneuzen ... 30 Consuls 28, 29 Statue of De Ruyter ... 29 Steamers ... ... ... 29 Tramways ... ... ... 29 Flushing Route 2,28 Folkestone Route 2, n9 Fort Kykduin 69 Friesland 73 Franeker 72, 73, 106, 107 Q. Gambling and Betting Geertruidenberg Geleen Geldermalsen Gendringen Genemuiden ... Gennep Geulle ... Geul River Gieten Gilze-Rijen Ginneken Goch ... Goes ... Goestande Chateau ... Golf Links Goole and Amsterdam ,, ,, Rotterdam Goor ... Gorcum {see Gorinchem) Gorinchem 23, 35, 37, 38, 121 Gorssel in Qouda 23, 56, 77, 99, 104 Groote Kerke of St. John 104 Stadhuis 104 Steamers 104 Town Museum 104 Tramways 104 Government ... ... ... 17 Grangemouth and Amsterdam 3 ,, ,, Rotterdam 3 Grave ... ... ... ... 115 'sGraveland 99 'sGravendeel 35 • • • 19 • 23 ,35 • • • n6 37. 114 • • • III • •• 105 • • • 5 • • « n6 • • • n8 « . • no ■ • • 33 • • • 33 33, 119 , 30, 32 • • • 32 • • • 12 ... 3 ... 3 no 142 INDEX. PAGE 'sGravenhage {see Hague, The). 'sGravenzande ... ... 4^ Grijpskerk ... ... ... 107 Grimsby and Rotlerdam ... 3 Groenekanschadijk ico Groesbeek ... ... ... 5 Groningen 73. 76, 106, 108 ,, and Zwolle Antiquities Museum Church of St. Martin Concerts Consul Deaf and Dumb Asyhun . Diligence ... Library (University) Natural History Museum. Park Pictures Post Office ... Railway Stations ... Stadhuis ... Steamers Sierrebosch Telegraph Office ... Tramways University ,, Libraiy... Grouw... Grouw-Irnsum Grubbenvoorst-Klooster Grubbenvorst- Lot turn Guelders Ijssel 109 109 .. 109 ,. 108 .. 108 109 .. 108 109 .. 109 .. 108 109 .. 108 .. 108 .. 109 .. ic8 .. 108 .. 108 .. 108 .. 109 ... 109 73, 106 ... 106 ... 114 ... 114 ... 112 H. Haag, Den (see Hague, The). Haarle ... ... ••• no Haarlem 23, 56, 62, 67, 76, 77, 82, 100, 104 „ and Alkmaar ... 66 ,, ,, Amsterdam 62, 66 Art Industrial and Colonial Museum ... 65 Bulb Gardens 65 Cabs ... ... ... 62 Concerts 63, 65 Dreef 65 Environs ... ... ... 65 Episcopal Museum ... 65 Flora Park ... ... ... 65 Haarlem —(£W///««> ,1 ,, ,, ,, ,, ... 59 ... 61 ... 61 ... 33 ... 62 34, 38 112, us 99 121 4 4 2 28 ao 41 4 38, M. 114 114 . ... ... w 100 116 Maas River 20, 21, 25, 28, 35, 38, 40, n5, 116, n8 Maaslandsche Dam ... • 41 Maassluis 20, 39, 41 British Consular Agent ... 20 L Maarn Maarsbergen .. Maarssen Maartensdijk .. Maasbracht 146 INDEX. INDEX. 147 PACK [ Maas Sluis 20 ] Maastricht 116 j Maastricht & Aix la-Chapelle 118 Antiquities Museum ... 117 Concerts ... 118 Helpoort ... ... ... 118 Minderbrocderskerk ... 1 18 Notre Dame ... 118 Petersberg 116, 1 18 Post Office 116 Protestant Church ... 1 17 | Railway Station 116 Stadhuis "7 Stadspark ... ... ... II8 Steamers ... ... ... Il6 St. Martin Church ... 117 St. Servatius Church ... 117 Theatre II7 Tramways ... ... ••• Il6 Makkum ... ... ••• 73 Mantgum . 72 Marken, Isleof74,75>76,99, 120 Mark River 33 Marsdiep (Strait) 70 Mastbosch 33 Meerlo-Tienraij 114 Meerssen ... ... ... Ii8 Medemblik 72 Meppel 76, 105, 106, 107, 109 Merwede Canal I03 Meuse River {see Maas). Middachten (Chateau) ... 114 Middelburg 23, 29, 30 ,, and Flushing 29, 30 Middeldijk 35 Middelharnis 23 Middelie 73. 74 Middelweg 7° Midwoud-Oostwoud ... 71 Moerdijk 23, 35 Money 8 Money Table ... ... ... 8 Monnikendam 74, 75, 76, 99, 120 Mook-Middelaar 1 14 Moordrecht ... ... ... 104 Motor Car Excursions 120, 121 Motoring n Muiden 76, 98, 121 Muiderberg 76> 9® Munchen-Gladbach 115 N. Naarden Naarden- Bussum Naarder Meer National Costumes ... ^eeue ... «•• *•• Neerbosch Newcastle to Rotterdam Nieuweschans Nieuwfjdiep Nieuwendam ... Nieuwerkerk ... Nieuwersluis ... Nieuwe Waterweg .. Nieuwe Wetering Nieuwlandsche Polder Nieuwstadt Nieuwveen Nijeveen Nijhuizum Nijkerk Nijmegen PAGE 98 100 ... 100 19 ... IIO ... 115 4 108 67, 69, 70, 77, 96 ••• ••• / Y 104 99 20 ICO 20 116 57 106 ... 76, 105, no 23. 35.38, 112, 114, "5 Belvedere . . . Concerts Groote Kerk Omnibus Post Office ... Ruins Steamers ... Town Hall... Tramways ... Valkhof Castle Noord Kraaijert Noord .Scharwoude Noordwijk aan Zee Noord wijk-Binnen North Brabant North Holland 19. • 115 • "5 • "5 . 115 . 115 • 115 • 115 • 115 • 115 • 115 • 30 69 56, 62 62 • • • • « ■ J J Canal 68, 70, 96, 98 North Sea Canal 66, 67, 68, 96 Nuenen-Tongelre ... ... 119 Nunspeet ... ... ... 105 O. Obdam Oegstgeest Oisterwijk Oldenzaal no, 70 56 119 III Oosterbeek (Hoog) .. Oosterbeek (Laag) .. Oosterend Oosterhout Oosthuizen Oostvoorne Oostzaan Opperdoes Oud-Beijerland Oud Delfshaven Oudega "OudeMaas" River Oudenbosch ... Ouderkerk Oudeschild Oudeschoot ... Oudesluis Oudewater Oudewetering Ovei-Ijssel Overschie P. •Papendrecht ... Passports Peperga Pernis Philippine Piet-Gijzenbrug Pijnacker Poeldijk "Polders" Population Poorters Haven Postage Practical Information Princenhage ... Principal Towns Public Holidays ... Purmerend 63, 67, 69, Purmer (Polder) Putten... PAGE 112, 114 ... 38 - 33 73,74 23 73,76 ... 71 23 33 . 25 38 72 23 . 35 77 70 106 69 104 57 105 39 73, 35 7 . 106 23 30 62 . 38 . 41 19 . 16 20 10 • 1-14 33 17 13 76, 77 74 • 105 Q. Queenborough Route 2, 28, 119 R. Raalte Raamsdonk ... Railway Map an'l Belgium Railway Time Religion Ressen-Bemmel Reusel Reuver Rhine River 38, Rijssen Rijsoord Rijswijk Rilland-Bath. Roelofs-Arendsveen Roermond Roer River Rolde Rosendaal ... >> J, PAGE IIO of Holland ... facing title. 10 17 38, 114 119 116 23, 40, 57, 61, 100 103,113, 115 no 35 39, 40, 41, 56 30 57,77 23, 115, T16 ii6 ... no 32.33,35,119 and Antwerp ... 32 and Dordrecht 35 Ro.sendaal and Tilburg, Bois- le-Duc 33 Rotterdam 22, 29, 33, 34, 35, 38, 63, 77^ 100, 104 112, 114, Plan of and Amsterdam Antwerp ... Dundee Flu.shing ... Goole Grangemouth Grimsby ... The Hague Hull Leiih Liverpool ... London Newcastle... Antiquities Museum, Municipal ... ... 27 Binnen Haven ... ... 25 Boompjes ... ... ... 24 Boymans Museum ... 26 Brunenstad . . . ... ... 26 Buitenstad 26 Cabs 22 Cafe-Concert 23 ,, ,, J, », ,, », • , ,j ,, f> », ,, ,, J, 1^5 22 28 22 3,22 30 3,22 3,22 3,22 3,22 3,22 .22 4/22 4,22 148 Rotterdam {coiitinntii) — INDEX. PAGE 23, 27, 22, Concerts Consuls D* Ifshavcn Dockyard . . . English Churches Entrepc)t Haven Erasmus, Statue .. ,, House where born Exchange ... ... Fish Market Flower Market Groote Kerk (s^^ St. Lawrence) Groote Markt Harbour ... Hogendorp, (1 Statue Hoogstraat ... Kermesse ... King's Bridge 28 22 28 28 38 25 26 26 25 26 27 van, 26 25 27 26 23 25 Koningsbrug {see King's Bridge). Konings Haven ... ... 25 Maas Haven 25 Maritime Museum... ... 27 Park, The 23, 27 Plantations ... ... ... 28 Post and Telegraph Office 22, 25 Railway Stations ... 22,25 Ryn Haven ... ... 25 St. Lawrence, Church of . . . 26 Scottish Church . . . Spoorweg Haven ... Statues, &c. 25, Steamers ... Theatres, &c. Tower of Groote Kerk Tramways Willem's Kade Willem's Plein ... Zoological Gardens Routes to Holland Rozendaal ( Chateau ) . . . Ruinerwold S. Santpoort Santpoort-Meerenberg Sas-van-Gent Schagen 22 •• 25 26, 27, 28 22 ... 23 26 22 27 ... 27 27 2-4 114 109 23> .. 66 ,. 66 5. 30 6^, 70 Schagerwaard . . . Schardam Scharnegoutum Scheldt River... Schellingwoude PAGE . 69 73. 74 72 29 17. 97 Scheveningen 19,37,41,52,54 ,, and The Ha^^ue Bathing Concerts Consul English Church Services . . . French Plays Golf Club Kurhaus Kursaal Pier Post, Telegraph and Tele phone Office Theatre of Varieties Tramways ... •• Schagerbrug ... Schie River ... Schiedam ... 20, 22, 23 Schiedamsche dijk Schiermonnikoog Sea-side Resorts Seppe 54 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 56 Shooting Siddeburen Simpelveld Sittard... Skating Sleeuwijk Sliedrecht Sluiskil Sneek ... 72 Snippeling Soest Soestdijk, (Chateau) Soesterberg ... Spakenburg ... Spaarne River Special Notice Spicrdijk St. Jacobi-Parochie St. Nicolas ... St. Oedenrode St. Pankras ... Stadskanaal ... Staphorsl Stavoren ... 54 55 54 67 39 .38 20 108 19 • •• ••• ••• 33 ••• ••• ••• / ^ 118, 119 116 ••• •• ••• \ £ >•• ••• •>• \o 1»7 ••• !•• ••* J^ 73, 77. 106, 107, loS Ill .. 103 -• 103 .. 105 .. 103 •• 63 .. 123 70 .. 106 .. 30 69, 70 .. 109 .. 106 69, 73 i INDEX. 149 Steeg ... Steenbergen . . . Steenwijk Steijl Stellendam Slroe ... Surface of Holland Susteren Swalmen PAGE III, 112, 114 32,33 105, 106 ... 115 23 IIO 16 116 116 T. Tegelen Teilingen Castle Telegrams Terneuzen Consular Agent Terneuzen, Selzaete and Clinge Terneuzen and Flushing Terschelling ... Teuge (De) Texel, Island of Tholen 116 62 10 29 29 30 30 .. 107 .. no 69, 70 23, 30, 32 ™ 23, 37,38, 115 Tietjerk 107 Tilburg ... 33,34,35,119 Til burg and Rosendaal ... 119 Time ... ... ... ... 10 Time Tables 10 Tours in Holland (Con- ducted) 124 „ (from Am.ster- dam) 120-123 ,, (starting any day) 124-5 Travelling Coupons (Cook's) 9 Turnhout 33, 119 Twello ... • no 1 WISK .•• ... ,,, ,,, 71 tt t» U. Udenhout Uitgeest Uithoorn Urk ... 33 66, 67, 76 ... yy 72, 105 PAGE Utrecht 23, 37, 63, 77, 82, 100, 104, 119 104 », ,, and Rotterdam ,, Zwolle Antiquarian Museum Archiepiscopal Museum Boulevards Buurkerk Cabs Cathedral of St. Martin Concerts Consul English Church ... Environs Hoogeland Park ... Huis Oudaen Lucas bol Nerk Mall, The(.\laliebaan) Mint, National Museum Kunstliefdc Post Office Railway Stations . . . St. Janskerk Stadhuis Statues Steamers ... Telegraph Office ... Tivoli Gardens Tower Tramways ... University ,, Library... ... 105 ... 102 102 ... 102 ... 102 loo lOI ... 103 loo 100 ... 103 ... 103 I02 ... 103 ... 102 ... 102 ... 102 ... 100 ... 100 ... 102 102 102, 103 ... 100 ... 100 ... 103 ... lOI ... 100 ... 102 ... 102 98, V. Valburg Valkenburg (Grottoes) Valkerswaard Van Ewijcksluis Vecht River Veenendaal-de Klomp Veenhuizen ... Veenwouden ... Veere Vegetation Veghel 34 Velp Ill, 112, Velperpoort Velsen Veluwe District 37 118 5 69 100 ... 114 ... 109 106, 107 ... 32 17 119 114 III 66 105 ISO INDEX. PAGE PAGE Venlo .. 23, 33, ii5f 116 Wieuwerd 72 ,, and Maastricht ... 116 Wijk ... ... 34 „ „ Tilburg ... ... 119 Wijk ann Zee ... 19, 66, 67 Venraij • • • ... 114 Wijlre-Gulpen ... 118 Vianen • • ■ ... 38 Wijster ... 109 Vierlingsbeek . . . • • • ... 114 Wildert ... 32 Vink (de) 56 Willemsdorp ... .- 35 Visvliet • • • ... 107 Willemsoord ... ... 106 Vlaardingen ... ... 20,21,23 Willemstad 23, 35 Vlake • •• 30 Winterswijk no, ni Vleuten • • • ... 104 Wirdum ... 106 Vlieland • • ■ ... 107 Wireless Telegraphy 2 VIodrop • • • 5 Woensdrecht ... .. 30 Vocabulary of English and Woerden 56, 104 Dutch Words, &c. .. 127-136 Woestduin ... 62 Vogelenzang-Bennebroek ... 62 Wo^num 69, 70 Volendam ...74, 75, 76, 99, 120 Wognum- Nibbixwoud ... 71 Voorburg 41, 56 Wolfhezen ... n4 Voorhout ... 62 Wolvega ... 106 Voorschoten ... 41, 56 Wommels 73, i«6 Vork ... 37i 114 Woormerveer . . . ... 99 Vreeland ... 100 Workum ... 72 Vreeswijk 100, 103 Wormer (Polder) ... 74 Vries-Zuidlaren ... 109 Woudrichem ... 38 Vught . 33, 34 Woudsend Wouw 73, 106 30 INDEX. W. Waal River Waalwijk Wadenoijen ... Wageningen ... Walcheren, Island ot... Wamel Warga W^armond Warmsveld Warns... Wassenaar Watergraafsmeer ( Pclder) Weesp ... Wesel Westcappelle . . . Westwoud Wester Blokker Westiand Wezep When to visit Holland Wierden 23,115 23, 34, 35 - 37 n2, n4 29, 32 115 73, 106 62 ui 72 41 100 100 115 32 72 71 56 105 4 no Y. V, The {see Ij). Vmuiden {see Ijmuiden). Vssel [see Ijssel) Ysselmonde {see Ijsselmonde). Vssel River {see Ijssel River). Vsselstein {see Ijsselstein) Zand ... Zaandam Zaandijk Zaan River Zaanbrug Zalt-Bommel Zandvoort Zeeland z. 67 63, 66, 67, 73, 76, 82, 99, 120, 121 67,99, 120 99, 120 ••• 73 23, 38 19, 62, 66 30,31 Zeist Zetten-Andelst Zevenaar Zevenbergen ... Zierikzee Zijdewind Zorgvleit Zoutkamp Zuiderraeer Zuidhorn Zuidlaren Zuid-Willems-Vaart Zunderdorp ... 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Loadoo Stations: Charing Cross aod Victoria (West End); Hoiborn and St. Paul's (City); Heme Hill (South Loodoo). LONDON rTPAilisTiil^ hours. Express Services leave LONDON at 9.0 a.in., 10.0 a.m., 11.0 a.m., 2.5 p.m., 4.30 p.m., and 9.0 p.m. BRUSSELS IN 8 HOURS. ^teSr^^'a!?:£|: SWITZERLAND AND ITALY. Services Daily via the St. Gotliard. Mont Cenis, Lotschberg and Simplon Tunnels. FLUSHING MAIL ROUTE To QERIHANY, AUSTRIA, etc., from Victoria and Hoiborn Stations. ACCELERATED RESTAURANT CAR SERVICES. Two Express Services, leaving HOLBORN and VICTORIA at 10.0 a.m. and 8.30 p.m. (Sundays inclusive.) MAGNIFICENT NEW TWIN-SCREW STEAMERS. DIRECT COMMUNICATION with BERLIN and NORTH and SOUTH GERMAN TOWNS. All the Steamers plying between Dover and Calais, and Folkestone and Boulogne, run in connection with the Trains to and from the South-Eastem and Chatham Company's London Stations. The Fleet includes the magnificent Turbine Steamers " ENGADINE " "RIVIERA," "INVICTA," "EMPRESS," ''VICTORIA," '• ONWARD »' and " THB QUEEN," and the SS. " LE NORD,"and "LE PAS DE CALAIS." Average Sea Passage between Dover and Calais, 60 minutes; between Folkestone and Boulogne, 75 minutes. FOR FULL DETAILS of the various Services to the Confluent, see the Company's Continental Time Tables, to be obtained for three stamps, on application at the Enquiry Offices at Victoria Station (S.E. A C), London, S.W., or Charing Cross Station, London, W.C., or London Bridge Station, S.E. CHIEF CONTINENTAL AGENTS- PARIS— Major HiLDYARD, 14, Rue du 4 Septerabre. BRUSSELS— M. Uytbobck, 19. Rue de la Rteence. COLOGNE— M. Ch. Niesskn, C.V.O., 6, Domhof. ROME— Signor Comm. Dott. Carlo Gbillo, 9, Via del Parlamento. Also th« various Tourist Offices of THOS. COOK k SON. FRANCIS H. DENT, Gmural Manager. ii Real Travelling Comfort. I A5^ k^ '" known to be one of the greatest safeguards of Health. wor?5 , !r ^u'*"*^ ^^ Travellers and Explorers in all parts of the world, and there are- several big Expeditions-Arctic. Antarctic f» .ui l?*"*;!^ -"^^ carrying it. In addition to its value for Health. It also has the important features of Charm. Comfort and Economy. OUTFITS FOR ALL CLIMATES. u^.^ Evcrjrthing — Underwear, Outerwear, •N .' ";* Nightwear, for Men, Women and "^ ' Children, also Bedding — can be had ** Jaeger," as well as the various ^1^^ " sundries ** required by Travellers. In addition to the Jaeger Catalogue. r^!!??^ Ladies should make a point of asking ' \/.ioT the new list of Knitted Coats >|, V* 1^ specially suitable for Winter Sports, etc. Gentlemen should ask for that of Travel- ling Coats, etc., all of which are fully illustrated ; also Dr. Jaeger's ** Health Culture." Copies are sent post free. To be seen at the JAEGER DEPOTS : 126, Regent St., IV. 456, Strand, JV.C. 30, Sloane St., SW. 102, Kensington High St., W. 115, Victoria St., S.W. A very light coat (3 lbs.) for Spring and Summer, in light shower-proof cloths in a variety of colours. For convenience in carrying, it can be rolled into a bundle 12 inches by 17 inches, from 52/6 to 67/6 85 & 86, Cheapside, E.G. And at the Jaeger agent in every important town. Address on application. 6 AD VERTI8EMENTS. TRANTER'S HOTEL (UNLICENSED), 6, 7, 8 & 9, Brldgrewater Square, Barbican, Xiondlon. MOST CENTRAL FOR BUSINESS OR PLEASURE. Two minutes' walk Aldersgate Street Station, Metropolitan Railway (In con- nection with all Tubes and Main Lines) ; seven minutes' walk from St. Paul's Cathedral. General Post Office. Quildhall. and City Temple ; ten minutes' walk from John Wesley's Chapel, Bank of England, and Mansion House. Inclusive Charg:e— Bedrooms, Single, 2/6 to 3/6 ; Double, 4/6 to 6/6. Breakfast or Tea, 1/3 to 2/0. Electric Light throughout. Night Porter. Absohitely quiet and home- Uke. Establiahed 1859. Write for " HOW TO SPEND A WEEK IN LONDON," with Tariff and Testimonials, post free. Telephone— No. 959 Central. Telegraphic Address — " Healthiest, London." Scotch Proprietorship— yfm. LOSSOCK, Resident Proprietor. LON II« WILD'S HOTEL (Fi rst-Class Temperance). 30-40, LUDGATE HILL. (Central for Charing Cross, Cannon Street and Holborn Viaduct Stations, for the Continent.) Bed and Breakfast 5/- each person. Four-course Luncheon 1/6 daily, Sundays excepted. Open to non-residents. 'Phone— 4695 Holborn. Teleg. —Wild's Hotel, London. ADVERTISEMENTS. TURKISH BATHS, NEVILL'S. The CHARING CR055 BATHS Entrance: NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE. Pronounced to be the Finest in Europe. ELECTRIC BATHS, LIGHT BATHS, DOUCHES, MASSAGE. THESE Baths stand on what was formerly part of the grounds of Northum- berland House, have occupied three years in building, and involved an expenditure of nearly £30,000. The Baths comprise a suite of rooms, having a floor space of about 12,000 square feet for gentlemen, with a smaller set in a separate contiguous building for the use of the ladies. The cooling rooms, which are surmounted by a lofty dome designed to permit free circulation of air and to ensure perfect ventilation, are fitted in the most luxurious manner. The whole of the decorations of both cooling and hot rooms have been designed by eminent authorities, while the heating and ventilation of the hot chambers are brought to a state of perfection by the use of the system first introduced by the proprietors. A.IjSO thb LONDON BRIDGE BATHS, 7 6: 8, Railway Approach, London Bridge Station. ALDQATE BATHS, GENTLEMEN 1—44, High Street, Whitechapel. LADIES :— 7, Commercial Road, E. EDQWARE ROAD BATHS, 16, Harrow Road, Paddington. WOOL EXCHANGE BATHS, Coleman Street, and Basinghall Street. BROAD STREET BATHS, Broad Street House, New Broad St., City, E.C. ROYAL YORK BATHS, 54, York Terrace, Marylebone Road, N.W. Hairdresdng Booths attached, and Chiropodists in attendance at all the Baths. At Charing Cross are also Light Baths, Electric Baths, Aix and Vichy Pouches aud Yibro Massage, GENTLEMEN'S FUR-LINED OVERCOATS READY FOR IMMEDIATE WEAR At prices ranging from SlO Suitable for Travelling, for Motoring, for Driving. &c., also Carriage and Motor Rugs (extra large) in great variety, made in Black Goat, Wallaby. Japanese Fox, and many other Furs. TAXIDERMY. To Sportsmen and Travellers Abi^ad. Special Department for Curing and Preserving Raw Skins intended for mounting into Animals or for use as Rugs. &c. The International Fur Store 163 & 165, REGENT STREET. Continental Ibotels. 9 AIXLESBAINS. HOTELS SPLENDIDE, ROYAL AND EXCELSIOR. Patronised by Royalties. Entirely new. Most modem comfort. Unique position. Large Gardens. Tennis. Garage. Special terms for families. Apply to— Cook's Coupons accepted. L. BOSSIQNOLI. Manager. AIX-LES-BAINS (Savoie). HOTEL DE EUSSIE ET DES COLONIES. T., ^f."f^®" ^^ famille. Renowned cooking. Very moderate terms. Near the Thermal Establmliment and the Casinos. Large Park, open all the year round. Electric Light. Central Heating. Motors meet all trains. Telei)hone : 212. J. C. GUERRIER, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons, Seines R, accepted. AIX-LES-BAINS. GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE AND SAVOY. This flrst-class Hotel, L50 rooms and sitting-rooms, beautifully .situated near the Baths and immediately opposite the Gardens of the Casinos, commands splendid views of the Lake and Moumains. Care and Cuisine first-class, with open-air Restaurant in the Garden of the Hotel. Complete sanitary arrangements. Highly recommended. Lift. Electric Light throughout. Bathrooms. POLLI ET FRANZ ETTI, Proprietors. Cook's Coupons accepted. AIX-LES-BAINS. THE REGINA GRAND HOTEL, BERNASCON. Elevated position, near Baths and Casinos. Entirely first class, opened in 19()0. Latest comfort and luxury. 2.'j0 rooms with hot and cold running water. .50 private Ijaths. Splendid view of the Lake and the Valley. Large shady Gardens and Dining Terraces. Garajres for 50 cars. Branch House, the handsome " VILLA REGINA," opene«i in 1907, and standing in its own magnificent grounds. BERNASCON, Proprietor. GRAND ALGIERS. (MUSTAPHA SUPfiRIEUR.) HOTEL CONTINENTAL. (Hotel de Luxe.) Largest and most up-to-date Hotel. 200 Rooms. 50 Bathrooms. Most of the bedrooms fitted with running hot and cold water. Full information sent on application to— MM. KIRSCH & EDLIGH, Proprietors. Cook's Coupons accepted. 10 CONTINENIAL HOTELS, ALGIERS. HOTEL ST. GEORGE (Mustapha Sup^rieur). Hotel de Luxe. 200 Rooms. 50 Bathrooms. 2 Lifts. Electric Tram connection with the Town every ten minutes. Cook's Coupons accepted. Large Garden. Golf Links. AMSTERDAM. BRACK'S DOELEN HOTEL. Rebuilt and refurnished 1911-1912. Now 120 Bedrooms. 50 Bathrooms. Running hot and cold water in bedrooms. Patronised by the highest class of English, Amen<»n and Continental Families. Own Auto-Garage. Auto-'bus Central Station. Moderate charges. Telegrams : " Doelenhotel, Amsterdam." Cook''s (W) Coupons accepted. , ANTWERP. HOTEL CAFE RESTAURANT MILLE COLON NES. AVENUE DE KEYSER II (Central Station), ANTWERP. Telephone : 1289. Comfortable Rooms. Moderate Terms. Bathrooms. Dinners at fixed prices and 4 la carte. Suppers after Theatres, etc. Shipping information^ .^^r^^^r^^r^ Branch Establishment-HOTEL CAF^ RESTAURANT NEPTUNE ANTWERP. ACHILLE DDYVER-CLAUS, Propnetor. Motor-'bus to Boat and Station. Lift. Central Heating. CooKs Coupons, Series R, accepted. ^ " ARCACHON. GRAND HOTEL DES PINS ET CONTINENTAL. RECENTLY BUILT. Most comfortable and modern. Sanitary installations. Open all the year round. Private Apartments. Sitting Rooms and Bathrooms on every iloor. Electric Light. Lifts, Auto-Garage, First-class attendance. Principal Foreign Languages spoken. Moderate prices. Steam Heating. Garden. Terrace. Telephone 46. , * B. FERRAS, Managing Propnetor. Cook^s Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS, ASSISI. MODERN HOTEL '^GIOTTO" AND PENSION BELLE VUE. New, quiet, first-class modern Family Hotel. Electric Light, Steam Heated. Baths. Large and lovely Garden. It is situated near the Church of St. Francis, and commands one of the finest panoramic views of Italy. Service of very gooti carriages for Perugia, etc. Automobiles for Excursions. TERMS MODERATE. Cook's Coupons accepted. 11 AUGSBURG (Bavaria). 150,000 inhabitants, formerly Iree Imperial town. One of the most interesting German towns. Many mediaeval constructions (Renaissance) in good condition. Old historical points of interest. Numerous souvenirs of Luther and the time of the Reformation. Royal Picture Gallery of old masters (llolbehi, Burgkmair, Rubens, etc.). Famous monuments of past and modem times. Picturesque street scenes. Magnificent old fountains. Fine Parks. Highly developed industries. GOOD THEATRE, CONCERTS, Etc. GOOD HOTELS. Information and Guide Bix)ks by the Verkehrs (Travel) Bureau of the FREMDEN- VERKEHRS-VEREIN AUGSBURG, BUREAU-HOUSE II. Representatives of the AMTL. (Agency of Thus. Cook &, Sou). BAYER REISEBURO, formeriy Schenkkr & Co. AXENSTEIN (Lake of Four Cantons), Switzerland. GRAND HOTEL. PARK HOTEL. Strictly FIRST-CLASS. 2,360 feet above sea-level. Most prominent situation abova Brunnen, commanding magnificent panorama. New buildings. Large and beautiful Park of world-wide renown. Open May — October. *' Axenstein is the most beautiful spot I met with on my journey through Switzerland." — QuKEx Victoria. Best English and American Society. Spring terms from 9 frs. in Grand, and from 7 frs. in Park Hotel. Divine Service in AH Saints' Church, Axenstein Park. Heating throughout. Auto-Garage. Terminus of the Electric Railway BRUNNEN— AXENSTEIN. Cook's Coupons accepted. BADEN-BADEN. HOLLAND HOTEL. First-class Establishment. Up-to-date, with a large park. Next Kurhaus and Baths. Apartments and Single Rooms with Private Bath and Toilette. Cook's Coupons accepted. bale. THREE KINGS HOTEL. FIRST CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT. The leading and most aristocratic Hotel at Bale, with universal reputation. Situated in tlie only quiet and magnificent jKisition on the Rhine. Rooms and suites with Private Bath. English Church Service held in summer in the Hotel. Auto-Garage. Three minutes from Station in Auto-'bus. Managed by the Proprietor, L. A. BOSSI. Cook's Coupons accepted. BALE. BAR-ROOM (BUFFET) OF THE CENTRAL STATION. Highly praised. Re-stauration a la carte and at fixed prices at any hour. Table d'hdte (luncheon), 12 to 2 o'clock p.m., 3 frs. Table d'hote (dinner), 7 to 10 o'clock p.m., 4 frs. First-class cookery, choicest wines, etc. Tourist-baskets (containing dinner provisions) prepared in advance. ^ ,, „ CH. PFOSI. Cooks Coupons accepted. 12 CONTINENTAL HOTELS, BALE. GRAND HOTEL AND HOTEL EULER. Very tirst-class House, Family opposite the Central Railway Station, in best and quietest position. Electric Light. Central Heating. Lift. Rooms with Bathrooms attached. Entirely renovated. Open-air French Restaurant. Garden. OSCAR MICHEL, new Proprietor. Cool^t Coupons accepted. BALEARIC ISLANDS. Palma de MaUorca. GRAND HOTEL AND VILLA VICTORIA. Facing the Sea. First class. Open all the year. Mild climate. Finest Winter Resort. Steamer from Marseilles every Wednesday, from Barcelona five times a week. Cook's Coupons accepted. BARCELONA. GRAND HOTEL FALCON. Beautiful Situation in the Rambla. First-class Hotel, entirely rene>»ed during summer, 1911. All meals served at separate tables. New Drawing Room for ladies, with Piano. Steam Heating throughout. Otis Electric Lift. Modern sanitary arrangements. Bathrooms on every floor. Moderate t«rms. Interpreters and Special" Omnibuses of the Hotel at every train. Cook's Coupons, Series R, accepted. BARCELONA. PALACE HOTEL. All modern comfort. 150 Private Bathrooms. Pension from lu Pesetas. Private Bathrooms and Pension 12.50. y. SAUBI. Manager. Telegrai.hic Address : -** PALHOTEL." Cook's Coupons accepted. BAVENO (Lago Maggiore). PALACE GRAND HOTEL. (On the Main Simplon Line between Milan and Geneva.) This magnificent Hotel occupies an enchanting position on the lake, commanding a view of the Borromean Islands and Mountains. HJO Rooms and Salons. Equippe-date comfort, a not and cold water supply, telephone, etc. 30 Rooms have Private Bath and Toilette attached. Splendid PuMic Rooms and Hall. First-class Restaurant. Pension. Prices are moderate. ERNST REISSIG. BIARRITZ. HOTEL VICTORIA & DE LA GRAND PLAGE. CONTINENTAL HOTELS, 15 FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Finest situation, opposite the British Club and the Grand Casino. 150 Rooms and Salons. Central Hot Water Heating. Running Water, Bathrooms. Electric Light. Lift. Large Garden and Veranda. Tennis. Near Golf Links. Cook's Ctupons accepted. J. FOURNEAU, Biarritz. BOLOGNA (Italy). THE GRAND HOTEL, BAGLIONL VIA INDIPENDENZA, 6-8. The new Leading and " Up-to-date " Hotel of Bologna. 120 Rooms and Suites. 30 Private Bath and Toilette Rooms. Splendid Hall. Modern Garage for eight cars on premises. Three Autu-buses at Railway Station. Every comfort. Cables :" Hotel Baglioni, Bologna." GUIDO BAGLION I, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. BOLOGNA. HOTEL BRUN. First-rate, of old reputation, in one of the finest antique Palaces of Bologna, in the best position, and with every modern comfort. Highly ret'ommended. Omnibus for day and night trains. Large and small Apartments. Public and Private Bathrooms. Bologna is a convenient point for visiting Ravenna, Ferrara, Modena, Parma, or for breaking the journey to Brindisi. Lift. Jennings' sanitary arrangements. Guide to Bologna forwarded free. Premises for motor-cars in the Hotel. Auto-'buses at Station. J. F. FRANK, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. The City of Palms and Pearls. BOMBAY. New Fields for ^j- Sport, Travel, etc. ^ TAJ MAHAL HOTEL, BOMBAY, INDIA. The leading Hotel in Asia. Moderate charges. Pension rates from Rs. 8 and upwards per day. Cook'* Caiupons {Indian. iSeries). BORDIOHERA. HOTEL CAP AMPEGLIO. Up-tiuing Private Bathroom and Toilette. Open from Ist October to 15th May. G. ALBRECHT. Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. BORDIGHERA (Italy). HOTEL ROYAL. FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Hydraulic and electric Lift to secure continuous working. Situated full South on elevate*! ground over " Strada Romana," in a most sheltered position, commandinff the finest view over the tovv-n and the whole coast. All the front rooms have balconies and fireplaces. Electric Light and Central Heating throughout. Private Suites of Apartments with Bathrooms and Toilet. Large Lounge Hall. Billiard Rooms. Large Terrace with Sun-box. Omnibus to all trains and, on request, also at the Frontier Station of Ventimifflia Garage tor motor-cars. Special arrangements for prolonged stay. For Tariffs apply to L. PALOMBI, Proprietor. BOZEN. HOTEL BRISTOL. Leading first-class Family Hotel. In best position, facing the Dolomites In Summer ^i;^:?^''*^^"*"^?^™!'' ^'^^ daily Evening Concerts. Best French and Viennese cSg' Apartments and Single Rooms, with Bathroom and W.C. Cook's Coupons accepted. HOTEL OKEIP. Well-known House with old reputation. HOTEL KONia LAURIN hnnS«^"*^*°^*''^/i^K"*'^^''^''i^''' *°*^ ^^^^^- Opened Spring, 1911. Latest up-to-date building, surround^ by magnificent parks, overlooking the Dolomites and adjoining mountains. Quite fireproof. Private Bathrooms throughout. Every comfort. Fine old Park and central Garage for the three Hotels. F. STAjft-LER, ManagTnTpropn^etor. BRIGUE (Brig;, Switzerland. GRAND HOTEL COURONNE ET POSTE. th« owfpf lJ^p^nnr?K* n ^^^ ^,^*"°!?' i^^ ^^'^ *°<* Telegraph Office. Carriages for the Glacier du Rhone, the Gnmsel, and Simplon. Electric Light Central Hating American Bar. Apartments with Private Baths, Toilette. iwit. xieaung. Pension from 8 frs. Lift. Grand Auto-Garage free. Facing the Simplon. JOS. ESCHER, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. le CONTINENTAL HOTELS. BRUGES. GRAND HOTEL AND GRAND HOTEL DU COMMERCE. 39, Rue St. Jacques, 39. entirely renovated. Highly patronise*! by English and American Society. All nio^leni comfort. Electric Light and Central Steam Heating in all the rtwras. Apartments with Bath and Toilette. Hot and cold water supply in most of the rooms. Splendid Garden. Automobile at every train, Auto-Garage at the Hotel. , „ , x. CableandTelegraphic Address— "Grand Hotel. Bruges. Vve. C. VAN DEN BERGHE & SON. Proprietors. Cook's Coupons accepted. LIFT. BRUGES (Belgium). HOTEL DE FLANDRE. LIFT. Bstablishment of the Highest Class. Largely r>atronised by Royalties and the ilite of English and American Society. Steam Heating and Electric Light. Splendid Winter Hall. Absolutely P«"fpct sanitary arrangements. Suites and Apartments with Private Bath and Toilet. OTIS ELECTRIC LIFT. HOT AND COLD WATER SUPPLY IN MOST OP THE ROOMS. Auto-Garage, A.C.P., R.A.C.B., A.T.C., N.A.C., M.C.B., Aero C.F.A.C. America, Germany. Austria. Cable and Telegraphic Address— "Flandre, Bruges." Beautiful Garden with Terrace Restaurant. LIFT. Cook's Coupons accepted. Mm. E. H. BENSEL, Proprietress. LIFT. BRUNATE-COMO. ONE HOUR FROM MILAN. GRAND HOTEL AND MILAN RESTAURANT. 2,625 feet al>ove sea. Funicular rail from Como every half-hour. Open all the year round. Magnificent situation. Splendid view of the Snow Mountains. 150 Rooms. Apartments with Bath. Central Heating. Lift. Large Hall with open fireplace. Ice Kink. Skating Bink. Beautiful Walks. ,, ^ Moderate Terms. E. TROMPE O & CO., Proprietors. BRUNNEN. Lake of Lucerne. GRAND HOTEL BRUNNEN. First-class Hotel. Frequented liy T>est English. American, and Parisian families. Centre of Excursions and Sports. Recom- mended by leading medical authorities as an ideaf resort for after-cure after Carlsbad, Bad Nauheim, Aix-les-Bains, &c. BRUSSELS. GROTTO OF HAN. Station:— ROC HEFORT, BELGIUM. Travellers passing throuijh Belgium can, by stopping a few hours, easily visit the "Grotte de Han." According to all guide- books the Grotto of Han with its chaos, ith multiform concretions, its abysses, its sub- terranean rivers, is the most enchanting and impressive in the world. An electric- lighting system, recently installed, provide* indescriba»)le fantastic effects. A Ime, commanding a magnificent panorama, crosses the Rochers de Faul* from Rochefort to the entrance of the Grotto. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 17 BRUSSELS. HOTEL DE BELLE VUE and DE FLANDRE. First-class Hotel, in the best and healthiest situation of the town ; near the King's ?tec?';rh?° rf/^^.^^'^if"*!*^^ ?^^^ ^^^'*'^- ^""^'y desirable accommodation. 7^rZ^l^u\ ^]i^- ,f ^®T ^^^^'J^S' Apartments with Bath and Toilet. Most of the rooms with hot and cold water. Winter Garden. Auto-Garage and Pit. E. DRE MEL, Proprietor. Address letters or telegrams—" Hotel Belle Vue and de Flandre, Brussels." Cook's Coupons accepted. THE BRUSSELS. GRAND HOTEL. Tariff for Rooms, Attendance, Light and Heating included. ROOMS One bed, 1 person from One bed, 2 persons Two beds One large bed, bathroom, lavatory & w.c. Two beds, lavatory, bathroom & w.c. Drawing-room » » »» 1st Floor. 10 frs. 13 18 18 20 25 »» »» 2nd Floor. 9 frs. 11 13 15 17 20 «3rd Floor. 4th Floor. 7 frs. 5 frs. 9 „ 8 •! 12 „ 10 „ — 10 „ 15 „ — Grill Room, American Bar, Railway Ticket Oflice, Lavatories, hot and cold water in every ^ "*^"^' (^oo^'^ Coupons accepted. J. CURTET, M anager. BRUSSELS. HOTEL DE LA POSTE. This excellent Establishment, situated Rue Fosse aux Loups, will be found very convenient to visitors who prize cleanliness and comfort. It is very substantially furnished has an excellent cuisine, and displays every attention to visitors, the charges being moderate' Omnibus to and from the Station. Smoking and Sitting Booms. Electric Light in all the Rooms. Telephone No. 392. Steam Heating. Lift. CooJ^t Coupons accepted Mme. TILMANS, Proprietor. BRUSSELS. THE METROPOLE HOTEL. THE LEADING HOTEL OF BELQIUM. Best situation. Latest improvements. Great luxury. Five o'clock Tea. American Bar. Lifts. 500 Apartments, provided with Bath. Offices of the Sleeping-cars at the Hotel. Telephone to Foreign Countries in all rooms. Cook's Coupons accepted. BRUSSELS. HOTEL DE BORDEAUX. 136, RUE DE MIDI. Healthily situated, old-established Hotel. Very comfortable and clean. First-rate cooking. Very moderate charges. English, German, Dutch and French spoken. Baths. Winter Garden. Electric Light in all the rooms. Telephone 1392. New Dinine Room for 200 guests. Large Hall and Steam Heating. ^ "um iw ED. GOMPEL. Proprietor. Cook's Coupons, Series R, accepted. 18 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. BRUSSELS. HOTEL BRISTOL AND MARINE. 9, Bd. du Gardin Botannique. This excellent Establishment is situated at tlie Nord Station, in the finest and healthiest part of the town. First-class cooking, and old wines. Every modern comfort. M(Mlerate charges. Reading Saloon with English and American newspapers. Smoking and Conversation Saloons. Baths and Garden. Electric Light throughout. All langtiages spoken. Electric Tramway communication with all parts of the City. Pension if desired. Nitfht Porter. Central Heating. Telephone No. 2354. Telegrams—" Marine Hotel, Brris^sels." JOS. KEKULE. Proprietor. Cook's Coupons, Series R, rnxepted. Same Proprietorship — Hotel Gd. Monarque & Empereur. BUDAPEST. GRAND HOTEL ROYAL. In the centre of the City and close to all places of interest. Well-known Family Hotel of the first class, provided w ith all the m if»t nuxlern comforts. Private Suites with Bath. Beautiful Reception Rooms Large Public Rooiris, Large elegant Restaurant, with Concert every evening. 32o Rooms, tt<>m 4 kr. upwards, incluiling Electric Light, Central Heathig. Lift, and Service. BUDAPEST. HOTEL BRISTOL. First-Class Family Hotel. With splendid Views of tlie River and Mountains of Buda, near the Steamboat Stations. Suites with Private Bath and Toilette. Winter Garden. Hall. Large Terrace on the Danulje. Fine Restaurant . Kooms from 5 kr. inclusive. Electric Light. Central Heating, Service, and Lift. CADENABBIA. Lake of Como. HOTEL BELLE VUE. Leading House in the District. Un.surf>assefl for its appointments. Cuisine, service and c*jmfort. Un- rivalled position. Best Golf Links in Italy. A. FEDELE, Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. CAIRO (Egypt). BRISTOL HOTEL AND HOTEL DU NIL. First-class Family Hot«:I. Situated opposite the famous Esbekieh Gardens, in the heart of the town. Home comfort. Mwleratr » huiiii^. Full i»ension from li is. .M. per day. Cook's Coupons acciptid. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 19 CAIRO. SHEPHEARD'S HOTEL. TUB PREMIER HOTEL IN EGYPT SEMIRAMTS HOTEL. THE MODERN HOTEL IN EGYPT GHEZIREH PALACE. - _jrHE IDEAL WINTER RESORT. CALAIS. TERMINUS HOTEL AND BUFFET (Gare Maritime). The only one on Pier Splen- did view of Sea & Port. 1st CI. Entirely renovated. Elec. Lift & Light. Central Heating. Apart, with Bath. Renowned Cuisine and Cellar. Hall, Reading-room, Terrace, Bracing Air. TravuUfrshave time for liincliingat Buffft, Official notice is given of the aeimrture of trains 5 niins. beforehand. CANARY ISLANDS. -Finest Climate in the World. GRAND HOTEr, QUISISANA. TENERIFFE. reserved. Illustrated Ixioklets t,«rifF a»,i uii r.^„^;^.,1zl,^^l"^.^ "> ^". ""«s^ Rooms ISL. (Telepl [Telephone, Gerrard 8616). ' tslREET, STRAND, London, W.C. CANNES (French Riviera). OPEV "HOLE HOTEL VICTORIA. V,r>-'^ll'J?I ."l"""'""- •■"'■'<■ Garden. Near Sea. Comfortable Rooms. Electric Li»hf "^^JX ii'if-wa^rK,:^ ;i;^,^rhout^"'^""' '"-^ "'-■ '- ^^^S'tss >i'^o L. W. PILATTE. Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. OPEN WHOLE YEAR. CARLSBAD. SAVOY WESTEND HOTEL Mnni.1, JoriT,^!;^''''^^"^' ^'''''^ Carlton, and Villa Hohenburg. o,_ „ ,. FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT. ^arlslml. Telegrams-- Savoyhotel." Telephone No. 333. Cook's Coupons accepted on terms according to^^Fn^^^^' Proprietor. B 2 20 C0N2INEN1AL HOTELS, CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 21 CHALONS s. MARNE. HOTEL DE LA HAUTE-MERE-DIEU. Very ffood Family Hotel, on the way to Switzerland via Calais and Basle. Excellent Dlace to break the journey. Hotel well known in England for its comfort, excellent cooking and delicious wines. The cellars contain one of the finest selections of wines and spirits in France Visitors by train or motor must not pass through or close to Chalons s. Marne without stopping at the Haute-Mere-Dieu. The Hotel has just been enlarged and improved, ind its rooms newly decorated and furnisheii. New sanitary arrangements. Mwlern Bath- room Shower Bath. Lavatories with hot and cold water. Room with Private Toilet, Bath.' and w.c. Steam Heating throughout. Electric Light. Table d'hdte. New Restaurant. Reading and Smoking Room. Garage. Pit. Garden. Post Office close to the Hotel. Telephone No. 4. Telegraphic Address: "Hotel Meunier." ^<^1^°^^S!^1''^^'^\ M« tt£UNI£x»i Fropri6tor> CHAMONIX. CHAMONIX-PALACE. Opening the Ist of May, 1914. GRANDS HOTELS D'ANGLETERRE ET DE LONDRES. All First Class. Large Park. Splendidly situated. Lifts. Tennis. Hot and cold running water. Garage-boxes. Orchestra. Cook's Coupons accepted. Apartments with Private Baths. Open-air Restaurant. Excellent H. 8TUTZ, Manager. CHAMONIX. GRAND HOTEL COUTTET ET DU PARC. First-class and most comfortable Hotel, finely situated in a large and shady garden with splendid view of the Mont Blanc. Apartments, with Baths, Electric Light, Lift. Tennis court, Garage with boxes, Central Heating. Open in the Winter time. Skating Rink belonging to the Hotel. Skating, Hockey, Tobogganing, Bobsleighing, Tailing, etc. COUTTET BROTHERS. Proprietors. Cook's Coupons accepted. CHAMONIX. GRAND HOTEL ROYAL AND DE SAUSSURE. First class English Family Hotel. Delightful free situation, with a large sheltered Park and Garden. Magnificent view of the Mont Blanc. High-class cuisine. Restaurant. Smoking and Reading Rooms. Baths. Excellent telescope for free use of visiters. Electric Light throughout. Moderate charges. Special arrangements for families. Lawn Tennis. COUTTET FRiSRES, Proprietors. Cook's Coupons accepted. CHAMONIX. HOTELS BEAU-SITE AND CONTINENTAL. Excellent second-class Hotel, recommended to families for great comfort. Beautifully situated in a large garden facing Mont Blanc and its Glaciers. Good sanitary conditions. First-rate cooking. Most moderate terms. Bathrooms. Smoking and Reading Rooms. Electric Light throughout. Telephone No. 16. Auto-'bus. Winter season. Central Heating. Patronised by English families. Garage for Automobiles. J. CURRAL-COUTTET, Proprietor. Coof^s Coupons, Series R, accepted CHAMPERY (Suisse), 3,600 feet. Electric Railway from Aigle and Monthey. Summer and Winter Resort. Charming centre for excursions. GRAND HOTEL DENT DU MIDI. First class. 350 beds. Private Apartments with Bath and Toilet Rooms. Central Heating. Lift. Electric Light. Recreation Rooms. Orchestra. Tennis. Pension from 7 frs. in Summer, from 10 frs. hi Winter. Manager, TH. EXHENRY. Proprietor of the Hotel du Cerf, Monthey. Cook's Coupons accepteil, • -I — — III- " - — - ___^_ ,„ ,„ . — ^^ ^ ^^^^^^^ ^ COBLENCE. HOTEL ZUR TRAUBE. Renovate«l 1910. (Landing Stage.) Close to the Piers. Beautiful view Bon the Rhine. Central Heating. Electric Light. Telephone No. 42. Every comfort. Omnibus at the Station. Auto-Garage. A. FL0R7. Proprietor. Cook's Coupons, Series R, accepted. COLOGNE (Rhine). Hotel Disch First-class House, near Cathe- dral and Station. Rebuilt and renovated in 1911/12. 170 Rooms, 40 having Baths and Lavatories attached. Cook's Coupons, Series W, accepted. Oom-Hotel DOMPLATZ. COLOGNE (Rhine). 200 Rooms. 28 Private Batha. OPPOSITE THE UILWAY and BOAT STATiORS. Cook's Office in the Buililing. COMO. HOTEL METROPOLE AND SUISSE, "MONOPOLE" AU LAC. Well-known Swiss house, open the whole year. Unrivalled position on border of the lake, commanding theTJosntesmnnrTscene^onTake and mountains. Rebuilt with com- plete sanitary installations. Modern comfort combined with really moderate terms. Motor shetl. Renowned Open-air Kestiiurant. Ask for booklets of Uomo and its lakes. R. CASSANI-DANIOTH, Proprietor, from Lucerne. Cook's Coupons accepted. 22 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. CONSTANCE (Bodensee), Germany. INSEL HOTEL iM See. The leading Hotel of the Lake. The principal first-class Hotel in Constance. In an ancient Dominican Convent dating from the year 1235. Considered unique in its kind from the historical and architectural point of view. Up-to-date arrangements and new rooms tastefully furnished have of late greatly increased the comfort and the homeliness of the Hotel. Fashionable Family Hotel. Uniier the iwrsonal management of M. BRONNER. Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. CONSTANTINE. GRAND HOTEL DE PARIS ROYAL. First-class Hot«l. The best situated in the town, near public buildings; ten minutes from entrance to the Gorges du Klumel. Recommende«1 to tourists for its cleanliness and comfort. Very interesting stAlactite grottoes in the Hotel itself, at a depth of 25 metres. Lift. Electric Light. Omnibus meets all trains. Languages spoken. Very advantageous rates for tourists. Cook's Coupons accepied. CORTINA (d'Ampezzo 4,025 feet above sea-level), TYROL. QUEEN OF THE DOLOMITES. GRAND HOTEL MIRAMONTI. First-class new Hotel, situated amongst beautifully green Alpine meadows and near extensive forests. Orand panoramic view of the Dolomites. 150 spacious, lofty and well- furnished rooms. Apartments with private Bath, private Sitting Room. Numerous Bal- conies. Large, elegant Dining Koom with separate Tables. Central Heating. Electric Light. Baths on every floor. Large Vestibule and Public Rooms. Verandas and Restaurant. Tennis- court. Auto-Garage. Telephone. Carriage horses and guides in the house. Moderate terms. R. MANAIGO. Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. MISURINA (5,760 feet), DOLOMITES. 12 miles from Railway Station, Toblacb, Tvrol, and 7i miles from Cortina. HOTEL ALPENHOF. First-elass new Family Hotel, on the Lake of Misurina, with every modem comfort. Beautiful views of Dolomites. Apartments with Bath. Balconies near every room. Lifts, Electric Light. Open fireplaces and Central Heating throughout. Vestibule. Public rooms. Veranda and Restaurant. Carriage horses and Mofcir Garage. Open also for Winter Sports. E. F. YECELLIO. Proprietor. Hotel Misurina, in Misurina — same Proprietor. Cooh's Coupons accepted. Lifts. DAVOS PLATZ. Luts. GHAND HOTEL AND BELVEDERE, Largeht first-class English Hotel (open the whole year), particularly recommended to English travellers. I'OU Bedrooms. Splendid Saloons (renovated) and vast Assembly Hall, with stage tor theatricals. Symphony Concerts. Beautiful views. Terraces, Verandas, Lawn Tennis ground. Sleighing, Skating, Curling. Two full-sized English Billiard Tables. Librarj'. English sanitary arrangements carried out by English firm and English workmen. Pension for a week's stay. Electric Light throughout. For fjirther infurmation apply to CH. ELSENER, Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 23 DIEPPE. GKAND HOTEL. On the Front and facing Sea. Apartments with Bathrooms. Magnificent Trout Fishing for clients of the Hotel. Garage. Telephone 1 . 64. G. DUCOUDERT, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. DRESDEN. THE NEW SENDIG HOTEL. 365 Rooms. SENDIGSchandau (Swiss Saxony). EUROPAISCHER HOF. 100 Bathrooms. Telegrams: "SENDIG, DRESDEN." SENDIG'S Hotel Quisisana, etc. 150 Rooms. Cook's Coupons {Series W) accepted. DRESDEN. GRAND UNION HOTEL. Near Central Station. One of the best managed Hotels. ITnrivalled i>osition. Garden in front and back. Magnificent high-class Family Establisliiiieut, m the nuostpait ol the town (the English Quarter). Suites and Rooms wiU^Pnva^^ath. Latest improvements. Garden. Garage (lx)xes). Moderate charjies. A. BECKER- LANDRY. Cook's Coupons accepted. EL KANTARA. HOTEL BERTRAND. Entrance to the Gorges, Oasis of 90,000 Palm Trees. Three very important villages. Excursions to the Gorges de Tilatou, Maafa, Beni Terrah. Observation tower of the Metlili, Alabaster mountains. Moufiilon and gazelle hunting. Omnibus meets all trains. Cook's Coupons accepted. Telephone 0.01. EMS (Bad). THE ROYAL KURHAUS." a Rebuilt 1912-13. The most modern Hotel. Suites and Rooms with Private Bathrooms and Toilet. Cold and hot running water. Central Heating. Three Lifts. Telephone in every room. Vacuum Cleaner. Electric Light throughout. The Royal Drinking Springs, Mineral Baths are in the Hotel. Most central and finest situation. The Hotel is connected by covered corridors with the Kursaal and Theatre. Cookh Coupons accepted. 24 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. ENGELBERG (3,300 feet— 1,019 m. above sea). HIGH-CLASS ALPINE KESOKT. GRAND HOTEL AND KURHAUS AND HOTEL TITLIS. The two leading Hotels, with 600 beds and all modern comfort. Patronised by distinguished English families. Three Tennis-courts. Large Ball and Concert Room. Own Orchestra from the Scala in Milan. Summer Season, Alay to October. Winter Sport. November to March. Kindly apply for prospectus and Poision terms. CATTANI BROS., Proprietors. Cook's Coupons accepted . EVIAN-LES-BAINS. The beautiful and high iv patronised watering-place in Savoy on the borders of Lake Leman. Complete Thermal Establishment. Kecommended by most of the leading Doctors of England, France, and Germany, and frequented by European aristocracy. Theatre. Golf. Tennis, Casino, splendid Excursions. Two daily trains de luxe. Over i:i,( bottles of water annually exporte0,000 A Palace of Luxury unrivalled in Europe. SPLENDIDE HOTEL. •• The Home of Comfort." These two Hotels are under the management of the Ritz and Carlton Hotels of London. Cook's Coupons accepted. PINS-HAUTS (Switzerland). GRAND HOTEL BRISTOL. First class. Lift. Bathrooms on every floor. 120 Beds. GRAND HOTEL DE FINHAUT. First class. 80 BhIs. Near the station of the Martigny-Chamonix Railway. Altitude 1,2.17 metres. Electric Light. LONPAT BROTHERS, Proprietors. FLORENCE. THE GRAND HOTEL BAGLIONI. Near the Railway Station, central and quiet. Sunny. Modern Hotel with the l)est and ui>to-tlate comfort. Rooms and Suites, with connecting Private Bath and Dressing-room Complete Auto-Garage in the Hotel. Large Smoking and Lounging Hall. A. k G. BAGLIONI BROS.. Proprietors. Branch House :— BOLOGNA, Hotel Baglioni. Cook's Coupons accepted. FLORENCE. GRAND HOTEL PORTA ROSSA ET CENTRAL. Most complete second-class Hotel. Every comfort. Full South. Centrally situated. Lift. Electric Light, and Central Steam Heating in every room. Safe for jewellery. Hot and cold Baths. Douches. Omnibus at the station. Rooms with Bath and w c Garage. T 489. ' * G. CASPARIS, Manager, ERNESTO CHECCHI. new Proprietor. Cook's Coupons, Series R, accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS, 25 FLORENCE. GRAND HOTEL DE LA VILLE. FIRST CLASS. Lung 'Aruo and Piazza Manin. Best and quietest situation. All latest comforts. French Restaurant. Evening Concerts. Open all the year. T. RITTER, Proprietor. FLORENCE. HOTEL ROMA. Place S. M. Novella No. 8. Near Central Station and Galleries. Central. Entirely renovateti. Apartments with Bath and Toilette. Moago. etc., can be carrietl out in wint/cr under ideal climatic conditions. The best Hotel at Helouan. English home comforts. Nearest to the Golf Links, which are considered the best in Egypt. Apartments and Single Rooms with private Bath and Toilet. Excellent cuisine. Special diet according to doctor's orders. Terms from 14s. 3d. upward s per day inc lusive. Write for illustrated pamphlet gi\ ing all particulars. Comfortable Family Hotel. Opposite the Baths. Beautiful Gardens. Terms from 8s. 3d. t o 128. 3d. per day inclusive. Cook's Cou pons. A. PETRY, Mgr. A. WILD. Gen. Mgr. INNSBRUCK. HOTEL KEEID. Near the Railway Station. Every modern comfort. Lift. Baths. Garden. Veranda. Arrangements for families. Special Pension terms during the Winter Season. Omnibus at Station. Coiik's Office in same l>uilding. . ' J. KREID, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons (Series A, B, C) accepted. 32 CONTINENTAL MOTELS. INNSBRUCK. WINTER AND SUMMER RESORT. Climate in Winter Bunny, dry, cold, bracing, with- out cold winds, especially recommended for weak conetitutions, aneemia, reconvaleecence, throat diseases, etc. All sorts of Winter Sport— Tobog- ganing. Skating, Sleighing (splendid skating rinks), amusements, theatres, balls, concerts, etc. Excel- lent Educational advantages, University, Oymna- slum, Music, etc., etc. Schools, private lessons Summer Season, beautiful Walks, Excursions, etc. Most beautiful drive to the Bavarian castle and Ober Ammergau. HOTEL TYROL. Ftrst-class modern comfort. Lift. Electric Light Home comforts. Central Heating. Historical Pamphlet, Illustrated, sent on application. C»o*'« • ' w" CaitiMm aec^ted. CABL LANDSBB. Proprietor. INTERLAKEN (Switzerland). GRAND HOTEL ROYAL— ST. GEORGE'S. (PENSION.) Situated on the main Promenade (Iloheweg). Magnificent new building with every fort. Firepr(X)f. Telephone in each room. Fire alarm. Cuisine and cellar excellent. com Diet Cuisine if required. Prospectus on application. Large Restaurant. Automobile Garage. Moderate terms. LICHTENBERGER BROS.. Proprietors. Cook's Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS, 33 INTERLAKEN. GRAND HOTEL METROPOLE. First class, in central position, on Hoheweg, MODERATE CHARGES. SUITES WITH PRIVATE BATHS. E. SEILER, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. INTERLAKEN. Savoy Hotel, smtes wuh "Bath. 400 •Beds. Hotel National. Cook's Coupons accepted. IN WINTER: WYDER'S GRAND HOTEL, MENTONE. INTERLAKEN. GRAND HOTEL (and BEAU RIVAGE). Fine and quiet situation on the Hdheweg. First class throughout. Fine Restaurant. Table dlifite at separate tables. Large Garden. Open 1st May to 30th September. Garage free of charge. ALBERT DOEPFNEB. Proprietor and Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. INTERLAKEN. GRAND HOTEL VICTORIA. A unique position on the HSheweg, offering a grand view of the Jungfrau and its incomparable panorama. First-class Hotel. Apartments of Sittina:. Bed and Private Bathrooms. French Restaurant. American Bar. English Billiards. Lifts, Electric Light. Central Heating. Concerts. Balls. Splendid Sporting Grounds. Motor-car Shed. Pension Terms in Spring and Autumn. Cook's Coupons accepted. GRAND HOTEL JUNGFRAU. Situated in the centre of the Hoheweg, with a magnificent view of the Jungfrau. Recently enlarged and improved with every modem comfort. Private Bathrooms. Grand Restaurant, with Terrace and Grill Room. Large Hall. Rooms from 4 frs. Large shady Gardens. Lawn Tennis. Motor-car Shed. Pension prices for a prolonged stay. Cook's Coupons accepted. INTERLAKEN. HOTEL DU PONT. Close to the Central Station. Large shady Garden along the river. Undoubtedly the finest view of the glaciers. Billiard-room. Saloon. Electric Light. Baths. Perfect sanitary arrangements. Rebuilt and enlarged in 1897. Eighty beds. Front rooms only. Moderate charges. Pension. Open all the year. BRUNNER. Proprietor and Manager. Cook's Coupons, Series R, accepted. '— ' — ■ — ■ — — — — I , JERSEY. THE GRAND — IS — The only MODERN and BEST APPOINTED HOTEL hi the Channel Islands. Unrivalled situation facing sea. Golfing. Tennis. Reduced terms during Winter months on' application to Manager. Telegraphic — " Grand, Jersey." Cook's Coupons accepted. Omnibuses meet all boats. JERUSALEM (Palestine). GRAND NEW HOTEL. The leading Hotel in Jerusalem. Situate near Jaffa Gate, Tower of David, and all places of interest in the Ci^. Blectric Light throughout. Bathrooms, etc. Latest sanitary improvements. Thos. Cfook & Son's travellers are accommodated at this Hotel. To avoid disappointment apply for rooms in advancei Interpreters meet all steamers at Jaf^a and train at Jerusalem. A. A J. MOBCOSi Proprietors. 84 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. KLAGENPURT (Austria). HOTEL MOSER (Verdino). FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Cook's Coupons accepted. J. VERDINO. Proprietor. bM>w«* KREUZNACH. HOTEL ROYAL BtAH^ Bia** D'ANGLETEERE. iW!^ THE NEWEST. THR LARGEST AND THE LEADING HOTEL OF THE TOWN. 200 Rooms aud Saloons. Apartments with Private Bath for Radimn. Brine and Fresh Water Baths. Quiet and dust-free position, facing the Kurpark. NEW ! Im- posing lounge with large terrace attached. Winter Garden. Garage with Lock-up Boxes. Prospectus. Cook's Coupons accepted. LANDECK (Tyrol) 813 m, POST HOTEL. Modern Alpine Hotel. Newly built. Apart- ments with Bath and w.c. 130 Beds. Central Heating. Post. Telegraph. Telephone. Tourist Agency. Starting - point of all post motor - cars. Diligences. Mail coaches via Finstermunz to the Lower atui Upper Engadin. Stilfserjocli and Italian lakes. Fempass— Bavarian Kings' Castles. Private travelling motor-cars. Map of Western Tyrol free of charge. Club Hotel of all first-class Automobile C^nh&. J. MULLER. Proprietor. Cook's Coupons acc epted. LAUSANNE. HOTEL EDEN. •* %*u^i' °®^IJ[ o'^l*'; ^iV* spacious rooms and vestibule ; undoubtedly the best situated Hotel near the Station (Avenue de la Gare). Every modern comfort. Lift, Electric Light. Baths, and Central Heating throughout. Delightful view on Lake and Alps. Suit- S*K, ^"^ZJf^'^ through and for families en pension. Apartments with Private Baths. Table d'H6te at separate tables. Moderate charges. WILLIAM ERASIMEHEIM. Cook's Coupons accepted. LAUSANNE. HOTEL GIBBON. p.»i™*af.^; K«S"'*MQ"- AU modern comfort. Delightful central situation, near Railway Station. ,^ne view on Lake and Alps. Large terrace. Veranda and Garden flwaily residence of the historian, Edward Gibbon. u* ««« vjarueu. L. LIEBERMANN. Manager. CoolCs Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 35 LAUSANNE. HOTEL METROPOLE. AVENUES DE FLOBIMONT ET DES ALPES. New first-class Hotel. view^oTrtht"!S ind • Afn«"^fe*^ '" * fashionable and quiet part of the town. Unrivalled Vipofrin T<„hf ^'^V . ,'?T- ?^^® minutes from Railway Station and centre of town Electric Light and Central Heating in every room. Large Public rooms Lift Ter?^^" LE PONT VALLORBE, JURA (Vaud), SWITZERLAND^ On the principal Line-Paris-Lausanne. .3.600 feet above sea-level. High-class Summer and Winter Health Resort. GRAND HOTEL DU LAC DE .JOUX. M^.™ „ . - 'm*'*^ FIRST-CLASS FAMILY HOTEL. OuriiM WH^tf-F^Sl"^ '"'"S? toboggan run and special Canadian tobosgan run). Ie/"?f.- 0Srh?s?r'a'^-,nfa?lierS',1Z- lO^rtpiafds.'"''"'"^- ^■^"^' «"-*' . P. BRAGGER. Proprietor. First-class Hotel, facing the River Tag Extensive imoro' LISBON (Portugal). GRAND HOTEL CENTRAL. us. Unsurpassed position 100 Bedrooms. Under new management. ?;,♦«.,*. • " — ''ive minutes from the Central Station, haule^i ai?d hrV.!!J^t°''%"^'^^! have been made and the sanitation has been thoroughly over- Telegrams: " CentralhoteL" Cook's Coupons accepted. LISBON (Portugal). THE GRAND HOTEL D'INGLATERRA. OPPOSITE CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION. T . t!^^^ ^^^^ modern and most central Hotel in Lisbon. Overlooking the famous Avenida. Lift Electric Light throughout. English sanitary in- stallation. Central Heating. Pension from 12.50 frs. New Restaurant Fran^ais and French Cuisine Apply to— A. BARROS, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. LOURDES. GEAND HOTEL HEINS AND GRAND HOTEL DU BOULEVARD. s.hi*.'^i!^*'i:'?'^"^ establishment. Well known for its excellent management and its irreproach- iltr^^'^^U * ^u^"^?"^ ^^'^ Saloons. Omnibus and carriage at all trains. SpecSSv iwnT''2'^*l,f°h*^^S^®'*«^iJ?''*^^,V*i;^'^^P^^^^^- Elect3*c Light. Baths SeSS U t-spanol. English spoken. Man spricht Deutsch. ^^i^u la r.ni^ o**l**T ^1?"'® = ^""5® ?****'' <*^ ^^^ ^"^"d Hotel Heins. Large assortment of religious objects. Four minutes from the grotto. Telephone No. 63. »"ri,raent or Cook s Coupons accepted. FRANCOIS HEINS. Proprietor. 02 34 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. KLAGENPURT (Austria). HOTEL MOSER (Verdino). FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Codi's Coupons accepted. J. YEBDINO. Proprietor. IlM»»«* KREUZNACH. HOTEL ROYAL B«Hi bkt»* D'ANGLETERRE. ^)0XS^ THE NEWEST, THR LARGEST AND THE LEADING HOTEL OF THE TOWN. 200 Rooms and Saloons. Apartments with Private Bath for Radium. Brine and Fresh Water Baths. Quiet and du9t-free position, facing the Kurpark. NEW ! Im- pt>sing lounge with large terrace attached. Winter Garden. Garage with Lock-up Boxes. Prospectus. Cook's Coupons accepted. LANDECK (Tyrol) 813 m, POST HOTEL. Modern Alpine HoteL Newly built. Apart- ments with Bath and w.c. 130 Beds. Central Heating. Post. Telegraph. Telephone. Tourist Agency. Starting- |K)int of all post motor - cars. Diligences. Mail coaches via Fiustermunz to the Lower and Upper Engadin. Stilfserjoch and Italian lakes. Fempass-^ Bavarian Kings' Castles. Private travelling motor-cars. Map of Western Tyrol free of charge. Club Hotel of all first-class Automobile ^'•i»i>s- J. MULLER, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. LAUSANNE. HOTEL EDEN. ** %*«H*^; "^^"^ll 0*^1^' ^i^ spacious rooms and vestibule ; undoubtedly the best ?-^Ji»iJS^lnS^?t Station (Avenue de la Gare). Every modern comfort. Lift, Elect?" Light, Baths, and Central Heating throughout. Delightful view on Lake and Alps. Suit- WILLIAM ERA8IME-HEIM. Cbo*'« Coupons accepted. LAUSANNE. HOTEL GIBBON. n^iSZ^fSi^^r. ^""*' •^^^' H^ modern comfort. Delighttul central situation, near &^re!l;S?^of?h"e^hirriat^d'wV^^^^^ Large teri^oe. Vei^nd* and Garden. L. LIEBEBMANN. Manager. Cook^s Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 35 LAUSANNE. HOTEL METROPOLE. AVENUES DE FLORIMONT ET DES ALPES. New first-class Hotel. ^i^Sl^l'^u^"^".^^' ^^l^' . Situated in a fashionable and quiet part of the town Unrivalled ESrTcVilftTnSVen?^^^ Five, minutes from Rai?way Station andTntre of tSwn^ Ditscinc wgm and Central Heating in every room. Larce Public rnnTn0 Beds from 2.50. Lift. Warm Water Heating. Private Baths. Large Vestibules. Ladies' Rooms. Smoking and Billiard Rooms. Restaurant. Omnibus, etc. Cimoslty of Lucerne : Old Suisse Restaurant of the 16th Century. . W. HELFENSTEIN, Proprietor. Cool^s Qmpons, Series R, accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 37 LUCERNE. VISITORS TO LUCERNE WILL FIND AT THE HOTEL BEAU RIVAGE (Rebuilt) * ^6/y comfortable accommodation for 9-15 frs., inclusive, in Spring and Autumn, and from IZ-ZO frs. in the high season. Many Rooms with Private Bath and Toilette . Open March 1.5th till October. Branch House, Lucerne :— Pension Beau Regard Faller. Full terms 6-9 frs. 0. GI6EB, Proprietor. LUCERNE. GRAND HOTEL DE L'EUROPE. First-class Favourite English and American Family House. Finest and quiet position, with SPLENDID GARDEN BORDERING LAKE. All modem comfort. New Bar with English Billiard Tables. Grand Hall. Restaurant Terraces. Rooms with Private Bath and Toilet and hot and cold water Toilet. Hot Water Heating. Auto-Garage. Moderate terms. Omnibus meets all Trains and Steamers. SPLENDID NEWLY ENLARGED PUBLIC ROOMS. Cook's Coupons accepted. BICH. MATZIG, Managing Proprietor. LUCERNE. HOTEL FEDERAL. (EIDGBNOSSICHER HOF.) Three ralnut<'s from the Station, Post, and Landing Stage. In excellent position on the border of the Lake. Central Heating. Electric Light. Lift. Baths. Occupying a southern sheltered position. Pension terms, b-12 frs. ; Bed, 3 frs. Arrangements for Families. Adapted for a winter sojourn. ^ ,, „ A. BECK-DANNER. Cook s Coupons, Series R, accepted. LUCERN-HERTENSTEIN. The most charming spot and resting place on the Lake of Lucerne. 20 minutes from Lucerne on the route Lucerne-Fluelen. 25 to 30 steamers a day. Best centre for Excursions SCHLOSS HOTEL. Up-to-date in every respect. Frequented specially by English and American families. 300,000 m2 own Grounds and Park facing Lake. Pension terms from 9 frs. HOTEL PENSION HERTENSTEIN— Same Management. Pension terms from 7 frs. Ask for Prospectus. H. & L- HERGES. Cook's Coupons accepted. II 38 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. LUGANO-PARADISO. EUROPE AU LAC. FIRST-ULASS FAMILY HOTEL. HIGHEST COMFORT COMBINED WITH MODERATE TERMS. H. BURKARD-SPILLMAN, Proprietor. Cook'.t Coupons accepted. _ LUGANO. GRAND AND PALACE HOTEL. Leading first-class Hotel with every modern comfort and old reputation. Splendid position on the Lake, surrounded by beautiful private park. Special en pension arrange- ments. Open the whole year. THE BUCHEB.DURRER HOTELS. Cook's Coupons accepted. aOLF LINKS. LUGANO (Switzerland). HOTEL ADLER-STADTHOF (Pension de la Ville). Near the Station. Open all the year. Renovated in 1913. Fireproof building in quiet and dust-free position! Magnificent panorama of the Town, the Lake and the Alps. Each room facing the Lake. Large Gardens. Open-air Restaurant. Veranda. Baths. Hot Water Heating. Electric Light. Lift. Dark Room. Near the Englisli Church. Rooms from 2.hO Vrs. Pension from 7 frs. upwards. Daily arrangements are made. Meals served at small tables. Money Exchange and information in six languages at the Hotel. On arrival, please ask for our Porter at the Station and the Landing Stage. Cable Address: Kapi'EN BERG ER. Telephone No. 74. Cook's Coupons accepted. KAPPKNBERGER-FUCHS, Managing Proprietor. 1 LUGANO. SWISS ITALIAN LAKES ON ST. GQTHARD RAIL LINE -MILAN TO LUCERNE. THE PARK HOTEL. RENOWNED. FIRST CLASS THROUGHOUT. Situated in its own celebrated Park. All modem comforts. Bedrooms with Bath and Toilet. Reasonable charges and special arrangements for prolonged stay. OPEN THE WHOLE YEAR. Coof^s Coupons. Telegraphic Address : "Farkhotel." LUGANO. GRAND HOTEL SPLENDIDE. THE HOTEL FOR COMFORT. Magnificently situated in the midst of extensive Gardens, in the most beautiful part of Lugano, on the New Quay. OPEN-AIR RESTAURANT. R. FEDELE, Managing Proprietor. Cool^s Coupons accepted. • CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 39 3^ days from Southampton ; 7 from New York. TUT A TiTjiTT? A ^ winterless climate. No dust. MLAXJJhlJXA, Winter Mean Temp. 61*> P. REID'S HOTELS. *hP U^IS^w^f^^/?^^^'^.®^,^]***,^^^ ^*'*«^> ^"^ Annexes, enlarged to 160 rooms, in Mn..S?L^^„ %' ^c '^?°ful'' Madeira, on the Western Sea Cliff. Fine views of Sea and TWm« 1 A^ V^ o'/ ^^ ^f * bathing and boating. French and English cuisine. Swiss Manager, lerms 10s. to 258. daily pension. a. fo^iPlo-i^^^A^^ HOTEL, in sheltered central position. Large gardens. Pension w-*^.. !i- Vi: " sanitary arrangements certified by the Banner Sanitation Co., London. BinUrH« BLf*?™T * K?^u"**'°. ^P"'^^ '^'^^0 f^et above sea-level. Tennis-courts. Pnm^n^^c n^foiT -S^o throughout. All steamers met. Tariff from the Steamship r?r3 i n T^ J A S^o^^^Vt' ^^J' 275. Regent Street, W.; Thos. Cook & Son, LudgatS Circus, U.C. London ABC; Unicode and Lieber's. Telegrams : •• Reid, FunchIl." ^^^'' Special Cou pons accepted. W. & A. REID, Proprietors. MADRID. GRAND HOTEL. Avenal 19 y 21. First-class HoteL Electric Lift. Central Heating. Bath. Pension from 15 Pesetas. Cook's Coupons, Series C, accepted. MALAGA— ANDALOUSIE. THE QUEEN OP THE WINTER STATIONS OP THE CONTINENT. REGINA HOTEL. First-class. Cook's Coupons accepted. A. PINA, Director. MALCESINE (Lake of Garda), Italy. GRAND HOTEL MALCESINE. Ideal Spring, Summer and Autumn Family Resort. Lovely picturesque scenery. Good Boating and Fishing. First-class Hotel, splendidly situated, with Garden and Terrace on the Lake. Every home comfort. Moderate terms. TTTT r. i.TrrrrrrnTTn rmrmT- ; Rooms with baths. Cook's Coupons accepted. MAYENCB. HOTEL DE HOLLANDE. Well-known first-class Hotel. Thorough comfort, finest and best situated Hotel in the town, affording an open view of the river. Favourite and quiet stopping place for excursions in tlie neighbourhood. Opposite the Landing Place of the steamers. Omni- bus meets all trains at Central Station. Steam Heating. Lift. Electric Light. Staircase through- out fireproof. The Hotel is arranged to suit the requirements of single travellers as well as families, and is moderate in its charges. Baths. 40 CONTINENTAL HOTELS, i . < (Bernese Oberland.) MEIRINGEN. (Brunig Railway.) starting point for the Grimsel-Rhone Glacier, and Scheidegg Pass. GEAND HOTEL DU SAUVAGE (WILDENMANN). Firat-class leading Hotel in Meiringen. Magnificent position near Station and Post Office. English Church in the Park of the Hotel. Caaino attached to the Hotel. Daily Concerts. TERMS " BN PENSION " STAY OP 5 DAYS. Coaching in all its branches. LIFT. Prospectus on application. W. GUNTER, Managing Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. MEIRINGEN. HOTEL PENSION BRUNIG, Opposite to the Station, in the immediate vicinity of the Post and Telegraph Office. Large Dining Rooms and a Restaurant on the ^und floor. All rooms look out on the Rosenlani Glacier and Reichenbach and Alpbach Palls. Shady Garden. Electric Light. Telephone. Good carriages for the Grimsel-Furka route always ready. Hotel Porter at ^e Station and Post Office (Diligence). CHARLES WANTZ. Proprietor. Coof^s Qmpotu, Series R, accepted. MEISSEN. KONIGLICHE PORZELLANMANUFAKTUR ZU MEISSEN. Royal Porcelain Manufactonr at Meissen, Saxony, half-an-hour by rail from Dresden. Established 1710. Oldest China Manufactory in Europe. OBJECTS OF ART: Mirrors, clocks, rases, lustres, sconces, candelabra (for candles and electric llfrht), centre-pieces, fancy baskets, proaps, figures (also biscuit china), models of animals and birds, etc. OBJECTS FOR HOUSSHOLD USE : Sets for dinner, coffee, tea, dessert, toilet, ttc., from plain style to the most olab<)rate and artistic finish. Painting after own compositions, copies after old and modem masters, TrmtU Mmrk paintingrs on tiles of bard paste china for wall dpcoration, etc. Trmde Mark (i^wareot Apparatusfor physical, chemical, and technical purposes. China colours for (Beware of imitations.) muffle furnace. 1st prizes gained at many important exhibitions. Imitations^. Sale rooms and depots at Meissen, Dresden, Schloss-Strasse 36, and at Leipzig, Gothestrasse 6> and commission depots in soTeral important cities. MENAGGIO (Lake Como). GRAND HOTEL MENAGGIO. First-class Family Hotel, with all modem requirements. Splendid and quiet position on the shore of the Lake ; surrounded by beautiful Garden and adjoining Landing Pi6r and Railway Station. Private Batlirooms and Toilet. Moderate Pension terms. Golf. A. RICCHINI. Proprietor. Cook's Coupons aeeepUd. MENAGOIO. HOTEL VICTORIA. Open all the Year. Modem. Select. Elegant. Beautiful, quiet, open, healthy situation. Fine large Garden. Perfect Tennis-court. Golf Lhiks. English Church in the Hotel. Lift. Own excellent Spring Water. Latest sanitary improvements. Electric Light in all Ihe rooms. Hot Water Heating in ever>' room. Dr. £. F. Eliot, English resident Physician. Lake Baths. 6IANELLA & BULLO. Proprietors (Swiss). Cook's Coupons accepted. - CONTINENTAL HOTELS, 41 MENTONE. ROYAL HOTEL WESTMINSTER cenS'i^Jl*!?fS°".'^' **^*"i*^'?IS «*t"at«^ in own large Garden on the sea-front; in the central part of the town and within but a few minutes of the station and Casino. Modem GardSon?S';hp?^*'.*lT^r'"5' ^'-^'^^^ Light; Lift; Baths; Private sSitef iTe trS^nJ ^ri^.^'^^-^i?^^*.".°^^^ gardens m Mentone. facing the sea. Omnibus meets all trains. Select English and American clientele. Cook's Coupons accepted. J. B. HAGEN, Proprietor. MERAN (South Tyrol). HOTEL ARCHDUKE JOHN. FIRST-OLASS UP-TO-DATE HOTEL. ROB. WENTER, Proprietor. MILAN. h6tel manin. Pacing the Public Garden. THE QUIETEST HOUSE IN MILAN. Too^J^^vS^J^^T l^\^X: ^*?"^ Hotel with every modern comfort. Private Bath- rooms. Patronised by English and American Society. Reasonable prices. _„ G. COLOMBO, Proprietor. MILAN. GRAND HOTEL DE MILAN. First class in every respect. Close to the Cathedral and Scala Theatre Rooms and Apartments, with Private Bath and w.c. Railway and Sleeping Car Office in the^otJl i"?n^%?f' ^'^ ^^^^^- Patronised by the /lite of EngUsh^ anS aS^ sSv Branch House-HOTEL COMMERCIO (Second-class). Near the Cathedral in very quiet situation. n V r, . . S. A. SPATZ, Proprietor. Cooi^s Coupons accepted. ^ MILAN. HOTEL CAVOUR-MILAN Cook's Coupons accepted. 42 CONTINENTAL MOTELS, MILAN. HOTEL DU NORD ET DES ANGLAIS. On the Central Railway Station Square. First-class Family Hotel with every modern comfort. Dark Koom and Auto-Garage. Apartments with Bath, and Rooms with hot and cold running water. C. GALLIA, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. MILAN. HOTEL VICTORIA. Situated on the Corso Victor Emanuel. Lift. Electric Light. Steam Heating. Baths. Moderate charges. Pension. Omnibus at the Station. CH. FONTANA. Cook's Coupons, Series R, accepted. MILAN. GRAND HOTEL CONTINENTAL. CONTINENTAL ffOlELS. First class. Central. Lifts. Steam Heating. Railway Booking Office. T. CLERICIj Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. " BERTOLlNrS HOTEL EUROPE MILAN MILAN. Central, with view on the Cathedral, and quiet rooms overlooking the garden. Private Bathrooms. Auto-'bus. Telegraphic Address : — '* Bertolinis, Milan." Cook's Coupons accepted. MILAN. BELLINI'S HOTEL TERMINUS. In the immediate vicinity of the Railway Station. All modern improvements. Highly recommended, being scrupulously clean. Moderate charges. Latest sanitary arrangements. Pleasant Garden. Steam Heating. Elevator. BELLINI, Proprietor. 43 MILAN. HOTEL PENSION BONINI. PIAZZA DEL DUOMO. Family Hotel. Near the Post and Telegraph Offices. Trams for all directions in front of the Hotel. Open all the year. . CJINA BONINI. Proprietor. MONTANA sur SIERRE (Ligne du Simplon). 5,012 feet above sea. ^ GRAND HOTEL DU PARC DBPBNDANCB-CHALBT ST. CHAHLBS. _______^ !•• ANTILLE. Proprietor. May. MONTECATINI Baths, near Florence. Sulphur Chlorine (aperient) Saline Waters. GRAND HOTEL LA PACE. October. New palatial buildmg situated in its own Park, with panoramic view of surrounding mountems. Lawn Tennis. 250 Rooms. 60 Bathrooms. """unning Cook's Coupons accepted. Branch House-tOCANDA MAGGIORB. 300 Be-lrooms. Apartments with Bath. __^ L. MELANO, Seneral Manager. Stresa. MONTE MOTTARONE. Lake Maggiore. GRAND HOTEL and MOTTARONE, KULM. Italian Righi- 1,500 mt. above sea. round), jaicctric Light. Bath Restaurant. Sheltered terrace. Cog Railway from Stresa, 1 hour. All Winter Sports. Central Heating. Dark Boom, targe glass veranda Many panoramic walks. Large woods. New Electric Concert m Summer. Spring and Autumn reduced terms. U. GUGLIELMINA & FIGLI, Prop. Managers. Coof^s Coupons accepted. MONTREUX— LES AVANTS. Aut^r."''l^?2^e"t;na^p^?arr?i,riSrrr^lS'c.^ «""" "'"'^ '»' ^•>^'"«- «""'"'- -O GRAND HOTEL DES AVANTS, S. MONTREUX. Open all the Year. eve^^^m^7m comfort*"*" ^L ^^^ely considerably enlarged and refurnished with Rl2tr,v w.i^o,r ^ *• \^^^^\ English sanitary arrangements and ventilation. B^lectnc Railway Montreux-Les Avants-Interlaken. Ten trains in each direction IS^'par^k'of^'oSimr^?."^ ^J^'^'J^' l>obsleigh and toboggan. All Winte^r's^pilrts: Jixtenaed rark of 60,000 m*. Pour Tennis-courts. Information through The MANAGER. 44 CONTINENTAL HOTELS, MONTREUX (Switzerland). MONTREUX PALACE HOTEL. THE LATEST AND MOST MODERN. 350 Rooms. 50 Private Suites. 150 Bathrooms. Perfect English sanitary installation. Salle de FiiEs. Reading, Smoking and Bridge Rooms. Grand Hall. French Restaurant. American Bar. English and French Billiard Tables. New Tea-room and Sports Pavilion opened in 1911. Jeux de quilles and Shooting Alleys. Roller bkatmg Rink. Clay Pigeon Shooting, etc. Tennis-courts. Golf Links. Vast Terraces. Large Gardens. Auto-Garage. ^. . , _ . ,,. * t. \ Near Central Station, Montreux-Qlion-Caux, Montreux-Oberland-Bemois (direct line), and landing stage for steamers. Cook's Coupons accepted. MONTREUX-TBRRITET (Lac L6man, Switzerland). LE GRAND HOTEL ET HOTEL DES ALPES. Newly Rebuilt with all up-to-date Requirements. Landing stage for steamers. 350 Rooms, 30 Drawing-rooms, 80 Bathrooms. Auto- Garage, 40 cars and large repair shop. Five Tennis-coui ts. Golf Links. Clay Pigeon Shooting. Winter Sports. American Bowling Alleys. Boating. Territet Station two minutes from the Hotel. Omnibus-automobile at Montreux Station, five minutes from the Hotel. Starting point of the Territet-Glion-Caux-Rochers de Naye and Territet-Mont Fleuri Railways. ^ AHLBURG. Manager. Cook's Coupons excepted. MONTREUX-TERRITBT. HOTEL AND PENSION VERNET. Leading first-class Family Hotel, above the Montreux Clu»>. Finest situation on the Lake, near Kursaal, BngHsh Church, station and landing stage. J. C. NOWACK. Managing Proprietor. CcoVs Coupons accepted. MONTREUX-TERRITET. HYDKO UABRI and Kurhaus Territet. Medical establishment for the treatment of internal and nervous diseases (stomach, intestines, heart, kidneys, albuminury, diabetes, gout, rheumatism, anaemia, neurasthenia). Convalescence. Mental or tuberculous cases are not admitted. Treatment: Dietetic cures (Weir-Mitchell), special diets for diabetes, albuminury, gout, etc. Rest cures. All kinds of baths and douches. Air and Sun Baths. Treatment by electricity (galvhnisa- tion, faradisation, electrical Baths, etc.). Psychotherapy (suggestion. Psychoanalysis) in appropriate cases. _^ _ ^^ „ ^ _, , -«i. Prospectus and terms apply B. LOY, M.D., Head Physician. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 45 MONTREUX VEYTAUX. HOTEL PENSION LES VIOLETTES. 10 minutes from Territet Station. Recently enlarget)OtlMOT PDQOAni. v.y Cook's Coupons accepted. NAPLES. GRAND HOTEL VICTORIA. (The last word in modem Hotel refinement.) Patronised by English and American travellers. Full South. 200 Kooms and Saloons with balcony facing the sea. Directly connected with the splendid Victoria Gallery, Cook's Central Office, Post and Telegraph. Garages Fiat. Situated in the finest and most select part of Naples, with magnificent view of the whole Bay— Posillipo, Capri, Sorrento, and Vesuvius. Suites of Apartments, Single and Double Rooms, with Private Dressing and Bathroom. Steam Heating throughout. Moderate chsirges. G. MERLO. Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. CHBV. P. MERLO, Proprietor. NAPLES. THE CONTINENTAL HOTEL. Open all the year round. Quai Parthenope (New Embankment). Splendid situation, full South, close to "the Public Garden and the centre of the town, with magnificent view of the Bay and Vesuvius. Hydraulic Lift, Electric Light. Every kind of Baths. Moderate charges. Central Heating. Two minutes from Cook's Offices. ALE8SANDR0 6ARBRECHT. Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. NAPLES. GRAND HOTEL. Open all the Year. First-class and most comfortable Hotel. Situated in the finest and most select part of Naples, with magnificent views of the Town, Vesuvius, and the Bay. Newest and most nerfect sanitary arrangements. Steam Heating throughout. Private Bathrooms and Suites. HAUSER & DOBPFNER, Proprietors. Cook's Coupons accepted. f GRAND HOTEL MIBAMARB, Genoa. Branch Houses «^ SCHWBIZBKHOP, Hotel Gotthard, Lucerne. I GRAND HOTEL AND BEAU BIVAGB, Interlaken. NEUCHATEL (Switzerland). GRAND HOTEL DU LAC. Central position. Benovated. Lift. Baths. Electric Light. Central Heating in every room. Pension the whole year round. Splendid view of Lake and Alps. CLOSE TO !rHB SCHOOLS. OMNIBUS AT STATION. Auto-Garage. J. BURKHARDT, Proprietor. Coo/fs Coupons aocepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 47 NEUHAUSEN (Switzerland). (Falls of the Rhino.) THE "SCHWEIZERHOF" m^S''cSt?."1'Ten^;'^''„Sl!^''»»7/„t^^^^^^^^ and extensive Park,. AH m«lsa«t.r any prescription. ™oS-a*R^;taS: I"'"™" <*"•»» f™-" 10 frs. Dietetic (Formerly aurtenicu.m, Berne, and BOevue Pa*c"e°zJ'rifh?^""^'*''- Cook's Coupons accepted. NICE. HOTEL BEAU RIVAGE. QUAI DU MIDI. Open all the year round. Bedrooms and Apartments With Private Baths Heated, and Electric Light. Cook's Coupons accepted. • NICE, LE GRAND HOTEL. In the centre of the town, opposite the Square Massena. Six hundred Rooms and Saloons, heated. Rooms and private Suites with Bath and Toilet. Cook's Coupons accepted. NICE HOTEL DU RHIN AND ATLANTIC. Open all the year round. finesrBSLre,oTtV°S:S.^?d'^SaS^ Klv fiSl'ls'^'^'^ T.!'' P^"- - ^^« and all hygienic and sanitary improvements. ^ ^ ""'*"' "^'^^ "moderate charges ^00 Booms with hot and cold running water. 80 Bathrooms (w.c.) ■t» TARIFF. DOUBLE ^^!?^^ ^''°"' « ^'''•' "^'^^ PRIVATE BATH from 10 frs. Room with 2 Beds 8 10 n '% INCLUSIVE TERMS from 14 frs. Cook's Coupons accepted. GARAGE Telegrams : ■• Bbtaotel. Nice.- TH. BAPMGARTNEB, Proprietor. Branch House-HOTEL DBS PRINCES, on the Sea Promenade. Indusive terms from 10 frs. 48 CONTINENTAL HOTELS, NICE. HOTEL ST. BARTH^LEMY. This excellent first-claas Family Hotel, with up-to-date comfort in elevated pogUon eom^'a^drmr^^ irf'^U^o^ne^d ^?e'n/h"'uisfne*'a^D?e?C Ji"nt "^^i^o^fod^TeT^MS^^^^^^^^^^ «"-«- ^*"" Tennis. Moderate terms. Special arrangement* for a long stay. JOS. MEYER. Propnetor. CookU Covporu accepted. NICE-CIMIEZ. THE "WINTER PALACE." o. . ,n «- ♦ «io«e «„^ v#»rv mo«iera Finest and healthiest situation. Beautiful garde^ %Sid J^o'S^^^^^^ -^ ot^- playg«>unds. Garage. JOS. A6ID, Managing Director. ORVIETO. GRAND HOTEL BELLE ARTL CORSO CAVOUR The only first-class Hous. I- t^^ centre o^t^^ Ct^n^^'^BaThs ^TpS^'tafge'^QV^K^^^^^^^^ Pu-I-. ?w.?f T iaht everywhere. Entirely renovated. Bvery modern comfort. Electnc Light «^ e»^> ^**«^^^^g Apartments with Bath and Toilette. Restaurant. Table d'Hote. Pension. ORESTE A YINCENZO PONTANI, Proprietors. CooA'a Coupons accepted, OSTEND. HOTEL D'ALLEMAGNE. This large -d well^^-wn^^^^^^^^^^ f.f ^^iJ^nT ^^^ t^^e^^^^ 1T^ ^^^r^U^^^'^^'^^^lonXn^"^^^ Arrangement, for the Winter and Summer season. Omnibus. Electnc Light. A. ST RAC KB. Proprietor. Cook^i Coupons accepted. OSTEND. THE SPLENDID HOTEL. 400 Beds. Finest situation, facing the Sea and Baths, next to the Palace of the Royal Family, modem comforts. Arraagemente en pension, 1(5*. to 20s. a day according to room. Cable Address : *'Splkiidid, Ostend." Coof^t Coupons, Series V, accepted. All CONTINENTAL HOTELS, 49 OSTEND. IMPERIAL HOTEL. First class. Old reputation. Best situation, next to the Kursaal, with view of the Sea and the Park. Renowned for its cuisine. Managed by F. FRIEDRICH, Proprietor, Also OSTEND HOTEL, NICE. Cook's Coupons accepted. OSTEND. HOTEL ROYAL DU PHARE. SITUATED FACING THE SEA. First-class Hotel, situated opposite the Sea and the Baths. Open all the year. Bnirlish Blwtric u'^ht^ ^^""^ ^^^"^ ^"^^ ^^^ comfort of visitors. Lift. Central Steam Heating. Cook's Coupons accepted. OSTEND. WELLINGTON HOTEL. Unique position on the Dike, facing the Baths. Between the Kursaal and the Kinc's Palace. Close to the Racecourse and Lawn Tennis ground. American and English clientele. Wood kitchen and cellar. Rooms and Apartments. Sea view. Lift. Electric Lixrht. Baths. Open from the 1st April to the 10th October. ^ C. FRIEDRICH, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. PADUA. HOTEL FANTI— ETOILE D'OR. PLACE GARIBALDI. First-class House. Entirely renovated. Modem comfort. Apartments with Private Bath attached. Rooms with Toilette with hot and cold running water. Sanitary arrange- ments. Central Heating throughout. Electric Light. Large Restaurant of great reputation. Garden. Garage in the Hotel. E. RIGHI, Proprietor. e. BELLONDINI. Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. PALERMO (Sicily). THE EXCELSIOE PALACE HOTEL. First-class Hotel, installed with every modem comfort. 150 Rooms. Baths in all Suites and ui many separate rooms. Magnificent Foyer-Hall. Reception Rooms. Restaurant American Bar. English Billiards. Central Heating throughout. Open all the year round Garage with private automobile service. ENRICO RAGUffA, Manager. A. PERCY TREWHELLA, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. \?\ 60 CONTINENTAL MOTELS. PALLANZA (Lago Maggiore). HOTEL METROPOLE . On the border of the Lake. With Garden. First-class Hotel. Special arrangements for families. Pension terras from 7.50 frs. Booms from 3 frs., everything included. Open all the year. Lift. Central Heating and all modem arrangements. U. GIOVAINNETTI, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. PARAME (lUe-et-Vilaine, BRITTANY. GRAND HOTEL. First class. On the Beach. 200 Rooms and Sitting Rooms. Splendid terrace on sea, and shady gardens. Private Park. Close to Casino, sea bathing, and trams. Lawn Tennis and GoM. Omnibus meets all trains and steamers. Telegraph : " Grand Hotel, Param^." 'Phone 6. Open from January till October. E. LAF0S8E, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. PAias. HOTEL DU PALAIS. 28, C0UR8 LA REINE (CHAMPS BLYSfiES). Family Hotel with moderate prices. Combining the old system of personal supervision by the Proprietor with cosiness of accommodation and excellence of cookery. Elevator, telephone, electric light, steam heating, large dining room, drawing room, smoking room, ^mlen, etc. Overlooking the Seine Embankment and Gardens, close to the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, the Eljrsee, Place de la Concorde, Tulleries, Opera, etc. Telegraphic Address : " Palatel, Paris." Cook's Coupons accepted. PARIS. ~ HOTEL AVENIDA. 41. RUE DU COLIS£E (Rond Point des Champs Elysees). A quiet, homelike Hotel, with all modem comfort, such as : Hot and cold running water. Hot Water Heating, Electric Light and Clock, Telephone, etc., in all rooms. Suite of Rooms with Private Ba.th and w.c. Lift. Smoking Room, Drawing Room, Billiard Room, Large Garden. The Hotel is well known for its excellent cooking. Pension terms from 12 frs. Arrangements for long stay. Single Room from 6 frs. Double Room from 9 frs. Telegraphic Address : " Avenida, Paris." Telephone : 58449. Cook's Coupons ^ 1st grade, accepted. PARIS. GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE. New Monumental entrance, facing the Opera. Place du Palais Royal, Avenue de rOi)era, Ruede Rivoli. 400 Rooms. Suites of rooms with Private Bathrooms. Steam Heating. Telephone. Electric Light in every room. Table d'Hdte at separate tables. Lift. Moderate charges. Every modem comfort. Cool^s Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 51 PARIS. HOTEL LONDON AND NEW YORK. 13 & 15, PLACE DU HAVRE. Opposite St. Lazare Station. The most central situation in Paris. 120 Beds. Always up-to-date. No luxury, but comfort. Hot and cold running water. Rooms with Privats Bath. English sanitary plumbing. Moderate terms. Telegrams: "Loudork, Paris." H. DEHOUVE, Proprietor-Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. PARIS. HOTEL DE LA GARE DU NORD. 31-3.3, RUE DE ST. QUENTIN. CORNER. RUB LAFAYETTE. Very comfortable Hotel. Most moderate charges. Single rooms from 4 frs. and upwards. Rooms for two from 5 frs. Lift. Baths. Steam Heating and Electric Light throughout. NOTE.— This Hotel should not be confused with the " Terminus Nord." Cook's Coupons accepted. Telephone: 440-01. MANDROUX. Manager. PARIS. HOTEL TERMINUS DU CHEMIN DE FEE DE LYON. 19, BOULEVARD DIDEROT, PARIS. The only first-class Hotel opposite the station. Restaurant k la carte. Moderate charges. Bathrooms. Large and small apartments. Post and Telegraph Office. Steam Heat. Electric Lift. English spoken. Telephone : 924.03. L. BBANCON. Proprietor. PERUGIA. GKAND HOTEL (Brufani). The only establishment built expressly for an Hotel . Unique South position, with magnificent panoramic views. Perfect sanitary arracge- ments. Water from the Nocera Springs. Central Hot Water Heating, also open fireplaces. Private electric car meets all trains. All Apartments, as well as many Double and Single Rooms, have Baths and Toilet en suite. Electric Lifts. Home comforts. Moderate terms. Managed by the Proprietor, GEORGE J. COLLINS. Cook's Coupons accepted. PISA. JONNI'S GRAND HOTEL MINEEVA. (Tebmdtus.) First-class Hotel near the station. Central Heating. Lift. Garage in the HoteL G. JONNI, Proprietor & Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. D 2 52 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. PISA. KOYAL VICTORIA HOTEL. LUNG AKNO REGIO. BL^ctricLiKhrt^ro^^^^^^ Perfect sanitary requirements. Moderate charges. StoSge for MotorHiars. Open all the year round. Coin's Coupms accepted. D. PIEGAIA. Proprietor. (Bngadine.) PONTRESINA. (Switzerland.) GRAND HOTEL KRONENHOF & BELLAVISTA. •„. *. 1 » n«t*i tn th« best Dosition. opposite the celebrated Roseg Glacier, and in the First-class HoteUnt^ Bedrooms and Private Saloons-all with centre of the finest^alks 11^^^^^ and American travellers. Private Apartments wSSth^ Moderate K"^ Lawn Tennis. Ice Rinks. Toboggan Run. Summer and Winter Resort. Open all the year round. L. GREDIG, Proprietor and Manager. Cook*s Coupons accepted. PORT SAID (Egypt). CASINO PALACE HOTEL. Newly built. Magnificent situation. Surround^^^^^ Facing the Harbour. Furnished with every modern comfort. Strictly tirst class. SIMONINI, Proprietors. Cook's Coupons accepted. RAPALLO (Italy). see Santa Margherita. the nearest station o^^a^val. One hour from Genoa (Genoa-Bpezia IMPERIAL PALACE HOTEL. Fi^t-class House. Oreat^t i^o^e^^^^^ ^^U^u^J^liuS^ ^^^^h^^ Light. Spring WatenMagm^^^^ Sestri Levant. Arrival .tationa-Santa ^'^^t:lt^elt^Z'i&o[^^^ Bapallo. ^-^^^^^^^f r^Tl-,., .... ANTONIO & LUCA, BROTHERS CUBA & G. MARAGLIANO. RAPALLO (Genoa). Cook's Coupons accepted NEW KURSAAL HOTEL. Adjoining the Kursaal— Casino of Rapallo. 200 Beds. Open all the year. Modem construction on sea- shore, facing South. Music Hall. Concerts. Restaurant Francais. Bar at all hours. Auto-Garage. Post, Telegraph and Telephone Office. Gardens. Wood. Sea Baths close to the Hotel. Lawn Tennis. Skating. SOC DEL KURSAAL DI BAPALLC CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 53 RAPALLO (Italy). VERDI GRAND HOTEL. RIVIERA LEVANTE OP GENOA. FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Finest postion of Rapallo, on a slight elevation, with splendid view of the town, bay, and surrounding mountains. Bright, warm, and delightfully quiet rooms. Beautiful garden and terraces. New installation. English service. "Central Heater. Electric Light. Lift. Every modern comfort. Moderate charges. Lawn Tennis. Enlarged and renewed in 1907. SAMPIETRO BROTHERS, Proprietors. Cook's Coupons, Series A. B.C., accepted. RAVENNA. HOTEL ROYAL S. MARCO. 16, VIA L. C. FARINI. Near station and Piazza Vittorio Emanuele. Lift (the only one in Ravenna). Baths. Douches. Garage with pit and water under pressure for cleaning motor-cars. Large garden. Central Heating. Swiss management. ANGELO N. TONTINI. Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. ROME. HOTEL PENSION C ARGIL L. VIA COLLINA 23 (VIA FLAVIA). « Situated in the Ludovisi Quarter, near to the rests of the ancient Sallustian Villa. Full South. Communication with the principal tramway lines. Pension terms from 7 lire inclusive. Oiien all the year. 50 Beds. ROME (Italy). GRAND CONTINENTAL HOTEL. Patronised by the Roman aristocracy. One of the largest, most magnificent, and most comfortable Hotels in Italy. Baths and Douches to all suites, and in many separate rooms. Open all the year. Post and Telegraph attached. Arrangements for prolonged stay. L. BARBIERI, Manager. Coofds Coupons accepted. ROME. EXCELSIOR HOTEL. IN THE LUDOVISI QUARTER, NEXT TO ROMAN HYDE PARK. First Class. The most up-to-date and fashionable Hotel in Rome. 54 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. ROME (Via Veneto, Ludovisi Quarter). HOTEL IMPERIAL. First-class Family Hotel In highest and healthiest position. Rooms from 4 lire, with Private Bath from 8 lire. Pension from lu lire. Opk^ th* Whole Year. ARTHUR ATZEL, Manager. ROME. GRAND HOTEL MARINL First class. Central situation. Full South. Blectric Light, and Hot Water Heating in every room. Open all the year. EUGENE MARINI. Proprietor. CboA'fl Ckmpon* acupted. ROME. GRAND HOTEL MINERVA. Open all the Year. First class. Central situation, near the Pantheon. Entirely renovatrd Quiet Rooms. Apartments and Rooms with Bath. Moderate charges. Auto-omnil.us. AUG. BELLA. CAS A. Manager. Summer Season— GRAND HOTEL SALUS, MONTBCATINI (near Florence). ^ ROME. HOTEL VICTORIA. At Home Abroad' LUDOVISI QUARTER, VIA SARDEGNA 34. Family Hotel of World reputation. Rooms from 4 frs. Pension from 9 frs. 15)0 front rooms only. Quietest position. Opposite the Borghese Park. E. THIELE, Proprietor. ROME. THE ROYAL HOTEL. A most modern high-class Family Hotel. Situated in the highest and healthiest part of Rome, close to the English and American Embassies. 5u baloos. 80 Bathrooms. 250 Bedrooms perfectly appointed. Best sanitary arrangements. Lift. Central Heating throughout. Renowned for its excellent cuisine. A. VALTORTA ft CO., Proprietors. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 55 ST. BEATENBERG (near Interlaken). GRAND PARC HOTEL DE LA POSTE. SUMMER AND WINTER RESORT. 4,000 feet above sea-level (Bernese Oberland), Switzerland ; first-class climatic station. First-class Hotel. Stone building. Every comfort. Situated in the centre of the beautiful Promenade, with a splendid view of the whole Alp chain, the ice fields, and the L^e of Thoune. Surrounded by a large shady park. Good cookery and attendance. Post, Telegraph, and Telephone office in the Hotel. English and Roman Catholic Churches. Physician. Moderate prices. Season, May to October 31. Electric Light. Lift. Central Hot Water Heating. Largest Hall. Lawn Tennis. Large Skating Rmk. Fine Ski fields. Telegrams : " Parc-hotel, Beatenberg." ^ ,, EGLI BRUNNER, Proprietor. Cooks Coupons accepted. SAINT CYR-SUR-MER (Var). PLAGE DES LECQUES. d'^1^" "^^*" ^*"^' "*^'' Toulon. One of the most southern positions on the Riviera, on the Peninsula next to Toulon. Ideal watering-place for the pure air, the sea, the sun, and the quietness. Splendid centre of excursions. LE GRAND HOTEL. FIRST-CLASS HOUSE. All rooms facing South. Splendid view of the sea and surrounding hills. Private park of 40,000 sq.m. Exceptional climate. Latest improvements. Hot and cold water in every room. Excellent cuisine. Tennis, fishing, sports. P.T.T. No. 1. ST. JEAN-DE-LUZ. GOLF HOTEL. The newest. Full South. Magnificent view of the Bay and Pyrenees. Suites with Private Bathrooms. Two Gardens. Tennis. Blectric Light. L. FOURNEAU. SAINT MALO. GRAND HOTEL DE FRANCE ET CHATEAUBRIAND. Entrance from the Beach. , 135 Rooms with sea view. Genuine Family Hotel. All modern comforts. Sanitary arrangements. Bathrooms. Blectric Light. Auto-Garage, etc., etc. Open from 1st April to 31st October. Telephone No. 0.39. ^ ,, ^ , MAI80NNEUVE, Manager. Cook s Coupons accepted. ST. MALO. HOTEL CENTRAL— BENOIT. Entrance— GRANDE RUB 12. DiplOme du T.C.F. Medaille d'Argent. Grand Prix. The nearest situated Hotel to the steamers to England, Jersey, and Guernsey. Close to t he Post Office. Accommodation for Cycles. Dark Room for Photography. Omnibus meets all trains and boats. Rooms lighted by Electricity. E. BENOIT, Proprietor. Ofok's Coupons, Series R, accepted. 56 CONTINENTAL HOTELS, ST. MORITZ. HOTEL NATIONAL AND DEPENDANCES. Homelike Family Hotel. Quiet and sunny position near the Kurhaus. Dust-free. Bvery modern comfort. Central Heating througliout. Baths. Omnibus at the SUtion. Pension from 10 frs. Summer and Winter Resort. FR. WI8SEL. Proprietor. CooKs Coupons accepted. ST. MORITZ. NEW POST HOTEL. HOMELIKE FAMILY HOTEL. MODERATE CHARGES. For particulars apply to— A. MABUG6. ST. PETERSBURG. HOTEL DE FEANCE. Great Morskai. Best situation in the Town. Opposite the Winter Palace, Ermitage, Foreign Office, and Newski Prospect. Tramway communication through the whole town. Rooms from 2| to 25 roubles. Dinners from 1 r. 50 k. to 3 roubles. Renowned cuisme. Large Reading-room with all European newspapers. Baths. Excellent Guides, and all languages spoken. A. ORLOFF, Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. Kept by A. S. RENAULT. ST. PETERSBURG. GRAND HOTEL D'EUROPE. LEADING ESTABLISHMENT OP THE RESIDENCE. Most central position on the Newski Prospect. 200 Bedrooms from 3 roubles upwards. Rooms with Private Bath from 7 roubles upwards. Largest Roof Garden in Europe, with splendid view. First-class Restaurant and excellent Orchestra. Telegraphic Address : " Buropotel, Petersburg." Under Swiss management. J. WOLFLISBERG-GIGER, Gen. Manager. A. B.C. 6th Ed. and WesterTi Union code used. CooJ^s Coupons accepted. ST. PETERSBURG. REGINA HOTEL. MOIKA 61. OPENED IN 1911. First-class Establishment. 200 Rooms and Apartments. Restaurant. Grill Room. American Lift. ^ , CooWs Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS, 57 SAN REMO. GRAND HOTEL (HOTEL DES ANGLAIS). Strictly first class. Visitors nearly exclusively English. Position one of the best in San Remo. Terms moderate. Central Heating. Concerts. Dances. Golf Links. AD. SCHREIBER, Proprietor (Swiss). Cook's Coupons, Series W, accepted , SAN REMO. GRAND HOTEL DE NICE. First-class Establishment, with every modern comfort. Quiet position, sheltered from dust and wind, situated in its own large Park. PULL SOUTH. Electric Light and Water Heating throughout. Lifts. Homelike Family Hotel. Moderate charges. Auto-Garage. Private apartments with Bath and w.c. Telegraphic Address : "Nieehotel, Sanremo." For particulars apply to H. ELMER, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. SAN REMO. HOTEL DE L'EUROPE ET DE LA PAIX. The nearest and just opposite the station, facing the Casino and Public Gardens. Quiet. Suites of Apartments with Beth and Toilet. Entirely heated by Hot-water Pipes. Lift. Every modem comfort. Moderate charges. No omnibus needed. Auto- Garage. First-class Restaurant annexed to the Hotel. Managed by G. VISMAR, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. SCHIERKE, HARTZ MOUNTAIN. HOTEL FUKST ZU STOLBEKG. G. m. b. H. Finest position, most wonderful view. 200 Saloons and Bedrooms. Private Bath and W.c. M(xiem comfort. Electric Light. Lift. Ventilators, etc. Open all the year. Winter Sports. Trout Fishing. Large Vestibule Cafe, with Billiards. English Papers. Post in the Hotel. ~v Cook's Coupons accepttd. Prospectus through the Direction. SEVILLE. HOTEL D'ANGLETERRE. Lately enlarged and newly furnished. Biggest, best situated, and most up-to-date Hotel in town. CoolCs Coupons accepted. 58 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. Loetschberg—SIERRE— Rhone Valley (Simplon Line). Known fob its Dry Climate. GRAND HOTEL CHATEAU BELLEVUE. Open all the year round. Fint-clasa Hotel in most charming situation. Entirely renovated, enlarged and fitted with all modem comforts. Large Halls, glazed veranda, 50 acres of terraces, gardens, and forefct. Winter Sports. The finest skating on the Lake Geronde, only a short distance from the Hotel. Spring, Autumn and Winter Seasons. Eight miles good private Trout Fishing. Artificial Clay Pigeon Shooting. According to the Federal (Government) meteorological reports, Sierre holds the record for sunshine during the Winter. English Chapel, Post, Telegraph, Telephone. Pension terms moderate, and meals served at separate tables. Cook's Coupons accepUd. ROGER VORUZ, Manager. SIRACUSA (Sicily). GRAND HOTEL. First class. Splendid situation, overlooking the Harbour and Winter Promenade. Opposite landing stage of Malta and Tripoli steamers. Close to Railway Station, Custom House and Post Office. Every modem comfort. Open all the year round. Garage. Telephone : 27 Inter. 8. COSULICH, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. SIRACUSA. GRAND HOTEL VILLA POLITI. View of sea, mountains, and of Etna. Magnificent garden on the marble quarries of the Cappuccini. Electric Light. Central Heating. Omnibus to the station and to the harbour. Do not mistake this Hotel with the " Casa Politi " in the town. 6. KOCKEL. Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepUd. SORRENTO. IMPERIAL HOTEL TRAMONTANO. Patronised by H.M. The KING of ITALY, H.M. KING EDWARD VII. and many otlier Imperial and Royal Houses. Best situation on the Cliff, with a splendid view of the Gulf of Naples. Large terrace »nd gardens. Rooms with Private Bath. Lift from the landing place up to all floors. Electric Light and Steam Heat. Moderate prices. 0. TRAMONTANO, Proprietor. Same Proprietor— Hotel and Pension de la Syrdne. Cook's Coupons accepted, SPA. BELGIAN ARDENNES. SPA. GRAND HOTEL BRITANNIQUE. THE LEADING HOTEL AND RESTAURANT AT SPA. It stcmds in its own extensive grounds, adjoining the English Church, and commanding a splendid view on the mountains. Apartments and Rooms with Batli and Toilette. Sanitary arrangements perfect. Warm Water Heating. Electric Light. Garage and Stabling. Telegrams :" Bntannique, Spa.** Telephone No. 27. F. LETH. Resident Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 59 SPALATO (Dalmatia). GRAND HOTEL BELLEVUE. First-class House, newly taken over. Fitted out with every modem comfort. The only House m the place with Electric Light. Situated close to the sea. Ten minutes from the 1^° "€ ^^**^e and station. French and Vienna cooking, with Vienna cafe. Auto-Garage. £inglish s{)oken. On parle Fran^ais. * WERDEGG ft BAUMGARTNER, Proprietors. Cook's Coupons accepted. STRASSBURG. HOTEL NATIONAL. Opposite Central Railway Station. First-class Hotel, most comfortable. Best situation, overlooking the beautiful S**Kf''^-.«A?y^''*."*i? ^^^^- Electric Light throughout. Steam Heating. Excellent Table d Hdte and Restaurant ^ la carte. Booms and Apartments with Private Bath- rooms. Electric trams to all parts of the town. Moderate charges. Conducted by the Proprietor— J. FEDIER, Ck)ol^s Coupons accepted. STRESA (Italy). The Transit Station on the Simplon and Loetschberg Line, between Trains and Steamer on Lake Maggiore. The Beautv Spot on Lake Maggiore. a GRAND HOTEL ET DES ILES BORROMEES. 300 ROOMS. 75 BATHROOMS. SKATING RINK. BEAUTIFUL SHOPS IN HOTEL GROUNDS. First-class House. Best situation on Lake Maggiore. Finest panoramic view of Lake and Alps. Nearest to Borromean Islands. Mainly patronised by English and Americans. Magnificent Park and Garden. New very large Hall and Foyer. Excursion centre. l!/lectric Light. Central Steam Heating throughout. Two Lifts. Perfect sanitary arrange- ments. Railway Booking Office. English Church in the grounds. English Doctor in the hotel. Suites with Bath-toilet Rooms and private entrances. Large Restaurant. Dark Koom. Cycling. Fishing. Boating. Mountaineering. Tennis-court. Croquet grounds. Parage. Motor Boats. Concerts periodically. Cook's Tom-ist Office in the hotel grounds. Cooks Coupons accepted. ROMEO OMARINI, Manage r. STRESA (Italy). THE EDEN OP THE LAGO MAGGIORE. HOTEL MILAN. Well recommended Swiss House. Family Hotel, entirelv redecorated. Fine situation aiid splendid view on the Lake. Newly fitted with Electric Light. Central Heating. Baths Douches. Lift. Excellent cuisine. Pension from 8 frs. Omnibus meets train. Open all the year. Caf6 Restaurant and Terrace. AUG. MULLER, new Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. STUTTGART. HOTEL MARQUARDT. FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Beautifully situated, overlooking the Schlossplatz. Rooms from Mk. 4.50, including breakfast. All rooms fitted with hot and cold water supply. Telephone connection in every apartment. Cook's Coupons accepted. 60 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. TANGIER. HOTEL CECIL. First class, with all modem comfort and latest sanitary arrangements. Unique position on the Grand Beach in the centre of the new town (five minutes' walk from the pier). Suites of Rooms with Private Bath, Toilet, and w.C. Spacious Dining, Drawing, Reading, and Billiard Rooms. Electric Light throughout. Large Terraces. Kiosk. Lawn Tennis-court. Garden. Roller Skating. Excellent cuisine and choice wines. Omnibus at the Pier. Interpreters and experienced Guides. Terms en pension from 10s. to 16s. Telegraphic address : " Cecil, Tangier." Coofis Coupons accepted. TAORMINA. EXCELSIOR HOTEL (formerly GRAND INTERNATIONAL). First class in every respect, with all modern comforts. Charmingly situated, with superb view of Etna and Greek Theatre. Baths, and Apartments with Private Bath and w.c. Ter- race. Garden extending over 20 acres. Garage Reasonable terms. E. INFANGBB, Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. THUN (on the Lake of Thun), Switzerland. The Garden City and favourite spot for sojourn in the Bernese Oberland. GRAND HOTEL & THUNERHOF, HOTELS BELLEVUE and DU PARC. CENTRAL HEATING. KURSAAL. Season :— APRIL to OCTOBER. The leading Hotels. 400 rooms. Marvellous view on the Lake and the Alps. Large Garden and extensive Pinewood Park, in which is the English Church. Lift. Tennis. Private Apartments with Baths. Excursion centre. Cook^s Coupons accepted. THUN. HOTEL PENSION ITTEN. First-class English Family Pension. Large Gardens. Glorious view. Perfect sanitation. Two Teimis-courts. Electric Light. Pension from 6.50 to 12 frs. Central Heating (hot water). New Swiss Chalet with Apartments, Private Bath and Lavatory. A. KRAHENBtJHL-ITTEN, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. TITISEE (Black Forest, 2,900 feet above sea). HOTEL TITISEE. First-class House. Summer and Winter resort. Every modem comfort. Finest situation on the Lake, with lieautiful large Park. Large Restaurant Terrace facing South, with magnificent view of lake and mountains. Trout Fishing. Boating. Tennis-court. Garage with Pit. Full pension from mk. 7.00 to mk. 11.00 pr day. Reduction from September 15th until June 1st. Open the whole year. Telephone, Arat. Neustadt Schwarzwald No. 27. Telegraphic Address : " Titiseehotel." Illustrated Prospectus from the Proprietor, B. WOLF. Cook's Coupons accepted. 1. CONTINENTAL HOTELS, 61 TIVOLI. EDEN HOTEL SIRENA. Five minutes from the station. Specially built. Reading and Music Rooms. Baths. Splendid terrace. Restaurant, from which may be admired the famous waterfalls and temples. Electric Light. Central Heating. Open all the year. 30 Beds. ILGO PALADINI, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. TOURS (Tonraine, Prance). HOTEL DE L'UNIVERS. Highly recommended to English and American travellers. Entirely renovated and refurnished. Private Apartments vdth Baths and Toilettes. The most comfortable home for families. Excellent cooking and most careful service. Auto - Garace Telephone 0.50. Special Winter terms. Garden. Golf. LAURENT FREYNET, Manager. TouRAiNE. TOURS. France. HOTEL METROPOLE. Highly recommended to English and American families. Opened in 1908. Modern comfort. Up-to-date. Private Apartments with Baths and Toilettes 80 Rooms with running water. Steam Heating. Lift. Garage. Moderate terms. Cook's Coupons accepted. £. AUDEMARD. TUNIS. HOTEL DE PARIS AND IMPERIAL. Of world-wide repute. Magnificent view over the Arab town from the terrace of the Hotel. Excellent cuisine and cellar. Latest comforts. Moderate charges. 100 Rooms. Vve. E. AUDEMARD. Proprietress. Cook's Coupons accepted. TUNIS. MAJESTIC PALACE HOTEL. Latest and finest Hotel de Luxe of the African Coast. The only Hotel with hot and cold running water everywhere, and Central Heated throughout. Unrivalled French cuisine Daily Concerts. All rooms full South. Cook's Coupons accepted. f GRAND HOTEL DU PARC, Chatel-Guyon. Branch Houses < ROYAL HOTEL, 33, Av. Friedland, Paris. LGRAND HOTEL DE LA POSTE, Rouen. VEDRINE FRERES, Proprietors. 62 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. TUNIS. TUNISIA PALACE HOTEL. First class throughout. 150 Rooms and Salons. Apartments with Bath, etc. In Summer: DISBNTISBRHOF-DISENTIS, Engadin-Switzerland. First-class climatic station, 3,500 feet above sea-level. For Tariff apply to P. TUOB, Proprietor. Cook^s Coupons accepted. TURIN. GRAND HOTEL LIGURE & D'ANGLETERRE. PIAZZA CARLO FELICE 9, AND VIA LAGRANGE 42. Opposite the departure side of the Central Railway Station. First-class Establishment. Situation full South. Central Heating. Lift. Electric Light. Telephone. Moderate terms. Only hotel in Turin with warm and cold water in every room. Rooms from 4 frs. Caf^, Restaurant, Bar, Billiards. THE MANAGEMENT. Italy. TURIN. HOTEL SUISSE TERMINUS. OPPOSITE THE CENTRAL STATION. UP-TO-DATE. Cook*s Coupons accepted. Italy. TURIN. HOTEL DE LA VILLE & DE BOLOGNE. Hotel splendidly situated opposite the Central Rail- way Station. Full South. Electric Light and Steam Heating throughout. Restaurant Jinowu for its good French cooking and Italian wines. Baths and Douches in the Hotel. Moderate charges. Rooms from S.60 frs. Pension from 10 frs. per day. Tel. Int. 1.24. L. GUERCIO. Proprietor. VALLOMBROSA (Prov. Florence, Italy). ALBERGO DEMANIALE LA FORESTA. 3,a0O feet above sea-level. The oldest Hotel in the locality, iu the centre of imposing fir woods and of vast prairies, opposite the old Monastery and its Church with daily •ervioe. 100 Beds. VINCENZO CIAMPOLINL Also Proprietor of the Hotel Excelsior, Florence. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 63 PALACE GRAND HOTEL. 1,806 feet above sea-level. The latest and most modem. 300 Rooms. 50 Bathrooms. Large Park. Tennis. Roller Skating Golf Links, Ac. Garage. ALBERT MORANZONI, Manager. VARESE (COME) I e:S?n.i=7z^L. First-class Climatic Resort. Centre ofExcnrsions to the Italian Lakes. 50 Minutes from Milan. 90 TRAINS DAILY. * Cook's Coupons accepted. 3,608 feet above sea-level. Modem construction. 200 Rooms. .30 Bathrooms. Latest comfort. Glorious location, greatest panorama in the district. Splendid walk through woods. Garage. Tennis. Summer and Winter Resort. 6. HERZOG, Manager. LIDO— VENICE. eour?8**^R!flrpL^T'1r.^?^'''?'u^^f Baths and Kinesitherapic Institute. Lawn Tennis- RFSTATTRAv?^^®\?'c'"« ^^^"^^ Theatre. Kursaal, etc. Large Terrace and CAF^ ™^1;^^^^ **^®^ ^^® S®*- Instrumental Concerts daily, April to October. EXCELSIOR PALACE HOTEL.— One of the Finest in Eurooe GRAND HOTEL DES BAINS ^ ^' HOTEL VILLA REGINA GRAND HOTEL LIDO Special Service of Fast Steamers meeting all Trains. Auto-Garage Reale. Cook's Coupons accepted. MESTRE. or } All First Class. MOTEL DAINIELI. Facing the Lagoon. Absolutely first class. Suites. PriYate Bathrooms and every modern convenience. Cook's Coupons accepted. GRAND HOTEL. First-class House, situated on the Grand Canal. Lifts. Steam Heating. Electric Light. French Eeetaurant. American Bar. Cook's Coupons accepted. MOTEL REQIINA (Rome and Suisse). On the Grand Canal. Very comfortable. Charges moderate. MOTEL VICTORIA. Near St. Mark's Square. All modem convenience. Central Heating. Cook's Coupons accepted. MOTEL BEAU RIVAGE. On the Eiva Schiavoni. Newly refitted. VENICE. HOTEL BELLE VUE ET DE RUSSIE. S. MABC SQUARE. Family Hotel with every modem comfort. ARTHUR RUOL & SON, Proprietors. Cook^s Coupons accepted. 64 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 65 VERMALA (Bur Sierre, Valais, Switzerland). FOKEST HOTEL. 5,600 feet above sea-level. Reached by Funicular from Sierre Station on the main Simpion line. Best situated, and commanding splendid view of the Matterhom, Weisshom, Simplon, Mont Blanc, and the Rhone Valley. Open all the year. Summer and Winter Sports. Spring Water. Hot Water Heating. Electric Light. Up-to-date improvements. Table d'H6te at separate tables. Excellent cuisine and choice wines. Pension from 10 frs. in summer and la frs. in winter. Reduced prices in June, September, and March. Apply BIANA6ER. Cook's Coupons accepted. VERSAILLES. TRIANON PALACE HOTEL. 1, BOULEVARD DB LA REINE. 18 kilometres from Paris ; 25 minutes' motor drive. The most beautiful and modern Hotel, standing in its own grounds and overlooking the Park. Comfortable Apartments and Room's with Private Bathrooms. First-class Restaurant— fashionable; five o'clock Tea. Tennis Lawn. Electric Light. Lift. Steam Heating. ^ MARIN FREDERIC, Manager. VICHY. GRAND HOTEL DES BAINS. Very first class, unrivalled for its position on the Park, opposite the Bath Establish- ment and the Drink Hall. All latest and modem improvements. Hot and cold water and w c in every room ; great numlier with Bath. Complete apartments for family. * Telephone. Electric Light throughout. Lift. Central Heating. Large garden. Garage for Automobiles. , _. DUITTOZ JURY, Proprietor and Manager. CooA'« Coupons accepted. On the Park. Lift. VICHY. HOTEL DE LA PAIX. Close to the Casino and Thermal Establishment. Electric Light. Telephone. £. FLSURY. Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. VIENNA I. Seilergasse 6. H. MAYBEDEB'S HOTEL MATSCHAKERHOF. VIENNA I. Seilergasa« 5. (First-class fashionable Hotel of old repute, for over 100 years in the possession of the family.) Central iJbsltion, close to Graben and Stefansplatz. Lift. Electric Light. Baths. Telephone No. 2160. Newly decorated. Rooms from Kr. 3.60, and Pension from Kr. 12 upwards. Tariff in all rooms. Safe deposit. Renowned Vienna cooking. Specialities :— Gumpoldskirchner and Mailberger Wines and best Vienna and Pilsener Beers on draught. Opportunities for shooting and fishing. Principal languages spoken. Telegraphic address : '^Matschakerhof." Cook's Coupons accepted. VIENNA. HOTEL VICTORIA. V *u ^ ^^' ^^VORITENSTRASSB 11. Telenhone • 7q« A. HAAGEN, OTTO STEPKA, Proprietors. ^ook s Coupons accepted. VIENNA. HOTEL IMPERIAL. I. KARNTNERRING 16. Renovated during 1913 with every modern comfort. Cook's Coupons accepted. WIESBADEN. NASSAUER HOF. (Hotel Nassau.) Bath^Ho^ure'^i'^rfvate'^^^^^^^^ fSh'^l,^."^^^^^ ^^^ «oyal Theatre. International Society W?rMrdrrlSiL^n'"S'o^S"m'^^^^ ^''^' »^«-« '^r Telegraphic address : " Naussauerhof , Wiesbaden." ^^^ Cook's Coupons accepted. Golf Links. WIESBADEN. THE QUISISANA HOTEL. Tennis Grounds. gardlTalJ^te^'rlclTa^^^^^^^ and its own 50 Baths. Electric Light. Cental Sin? ThermarRnfh J™ ^^ Position ; 150 Rooms, every modern comforfi First-cla^s SSant^^ B^u^ff ul^^^^^^^^^ ^^"^ ^''^ _. ^. ■ ^ -^PPly for Prospectus to the Proprietor, P. ROSER Telegraphic address : - Quisisana." Telephone : 119; 120. 45^ 467 Cook's Coupons accepted. WIESBADEN. •PENSION VILLA HERTHA-Dambachtal 24. Telephone : 4182. MISS RODWAY. FBAULEIN MARIA ANDRE. E 66 CONTINENTAL HOTELS, ZERMATT (1,620 m.). HOTELS: * NATIONAL (TEKMINUS), SCHWEIZERHOF, BELLEVUE. Moderate prices. Pension tenns. Grand Restaurant. Concerts. Open May. Ist to eu.l of October. ,. m . ». *t ia Telegraphic Address : ••National, Zermatt." Telephone No. 10. MAX OTTO. Manager. *Coo1C» Coupons accepted. ZERMATT (1,620 m.). ♦HOTEL MONTE KOSA, *HOTEL MONT CERVIN, ♦HOTEL VICTORIA, BUFFET AT STATION. ABOVE ZERMATT : HOTEL RIFFEL-ALP (2,227 m.), Lift, Central Heating, Tramway. HOTEL SCHWARZSEE (2,589 m.) All held by the SEILER BROTHEBS. Moderate prices. Arrangements for prolonged stay. Open from May 1st to October 20th. Doctor. Chemist. Concerts the whole season. Electric Light. *Cook*t Coupons accepted. ZURICH. CITY HOTEL. SIHLSTRASSB 7 & 9. Three minutes' walking from station, no 'bus needed. Open 1912. Hot and cold water supply in every room. Apartments with Bath. Rooms from 4 frs. Pension terms (including room) from 10 frs. a day for a stay of at least five days. A. BOHRER, Proprietor. Ck)ok'i Coupons accepted. ZURICH. *HOTEL SCHWEET. HOTEL DE L'EPEE. Situated in the centre of the town near the lake, with splendid view of the city, lake, mountains and glaciers. Suitable for families and tourists. Lift. Electric Light m every room. Baths. Open throughout the year. Boarding for prolonged stoy. Omnibus and Porter meet .rain.. Library. Central heating ti^ugSout. ^^^^^^ ^^^ proprietor. * Cook's Coupons accepted. ZURICH. GRAND HOTEL NATIONAL. First class, opposite the station. No omnibus necessary. Entirely renovated. Rooms with new elegant Private Bathrooms attached. Moderate terms. Booms from 4 frs. 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