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                            Walter Pieterse
                           A Story of Holland

                                  By
                               Multatuli
                         (Eduard Douwes Dekker)

                             Translated by
                          Hubert Evans, Ph. D.



                                New York
                           Friderici & Gareis
                       6 East Seventeenth Street






                            Copyright, 1904,
                                   By
                           Friderici & Gareis







PREFACE


Most of us know that The Hague is somewhere in Holland; and we all
know that Queen Wilhelmina takes a beautiful picture; but to how many
of us has it occurred that the land of Spinoza and Rembrandt is still
running a literary shop?

How many of us have ever heard of Eduard Douwes Dekker? Very