The same author tells us also that "the ponnies and asses have a separated standing-place, whilst severe stipulations warrant the bathers for trouble of the animals and their driver".
Of this book I ought perhaps to say more, for I am greatly indebted to it.

Most of the larger towns of Holland have guides, and for the most part they are written in good English, albeit of Dutch extraction; but _Through Noord-Holland_ is an agreeable exception in that it covers all the ground between Amsterdam and the Helder, and is constructed in a peculiar sport of Babel.

In Dutch it is I have no doubt an ordinary guide-book; in English it is something far more precious.

The following extract from the preface to the second edition ought to be quoted before I borrow further from its pages:-- Being completed with the necessary alterations and corrections I send it into the world for the second time.

As it will be published besides in Dutch also in French and English, the aim of the edition will surely be favoured, and our poor misappreciated country that so often is regarded with contempt by our countrymen as well as by foreigners will soon be an attraction for tourists.