Each time I have visited Holland I have been loath to leave, but in more ways than one this feeling was mitigated in Bois le Duc, for Bois le Duc is a more satisfactory place to leave from than The Hague, for example, and when the always solicitous station master, in black frock coat and bright red cap, finally came to tell me that my train was due, I gathered together my impedimenta and followed him resignedly toward the train shed. As I passed through the waiting-room my eye caught some lettering over the mantel of an artistic fireplace. Its words pronounced the traveler’s benediction: “_Goede Reis_.” Whether he appreciated the fact or not, that old fireplace had stood there for years, wishing the voyageur a pleasant journey, and the gentleness, the simple kindliness of the message struck me as being characteristic of the men who put it there--the Hollanders. THE END INDEX Aanspreker, the, 53, 54 Acreage, 1 Admiral de Ruyter, 111, 147 Admiral Dirkzoon, 154 Albert Cuyp, 41, 48, 49 Alexander of Parma, 66, 67 Alkmaar, 123, 124, 137, 138, 147, 153 Alma Tadema, Laurens, 172 Alva, Duke of, 20, 63, 65, 191 Amalia, Princess, 84 Amstel, 109 Amsterdam, 1, 5, 6, 14, 55, 57, 75, 83, 107, 108, 112, 118, 123, 124, 127–130, 137, 147, 150, 152, 153, 157 Amsterdam, Bank of, 122 Amusements, 88, 114, 115, 116, 156, 157 Animals, 57, 58 Anjou, Duke of, 66, 67 Antwerp, 20, 111 Apeldoorn, 189–191 Arnhem, 1, 193, 195, 198, 199 Arras, Bishop of, 63 Ary Scheffer, 41 Assen, 179, 182 Atlantic, 1 Australia, 152 Batavia, 151 Bathazar Gérard, 65–69 Beekhuizen, 198 Bergen-op-Zoom, 34, 36, 37 Beurs, 57 Bicycles, 23, 24 Biesbosch, 39 Biljoen, 198 Binnenhof, 41, 78–80 Bishop of Arras, 63 Bishop of Cambrai, 55 Bois le Duc, 202, 211–214 Bonaparte, Louis, 109, 110 Bosch, The, 84 Bossu, 153 Botanical Gardens, Leyden, 99 Boymans Museum, 50 Broek, 129 Bronbeek, 197 Buiksloot, 128 Building, 108 Bulbs, 103, 104 Canals, 7, 31, 34, 56, 57, 58, 61, 91, 101, 124, 125, 127, 131, 132, 137, 171, 173 Canal packets, 2 Castricum, 147 Catherine of Schwartzburg, 70 Cats, Father Jacob, 18 Cattle raising, 173 Charitable institutions, 100 Charles V, 19, 167 Church of St. Lawrence, 50 Cleanliness, 8, 34, 35, 59, 60, 129 Cleve, 199 Coen, 150 Coinage, 8 Coligny, Louisa de, 65 Colonial Offices, 80 Comparative size, 1, 2 Conference, International Peace, 84 Conquests of the sea, 4, 5 Corcoran Galleries, 80 Cornelius De Witt, 41, 79 Costumes, 22, 23, 135, 167, 168 Cromwell, Oliver, 19 Cultivation, 91, 158 Cuyp, Albert, 41, 48, 49 Dairy products, 173 Dam, The, 110 Damrak, 112, 128 Delft, 55, 59, 60–62, 65–67, 72