It is an excellent book.

The preface begins thus:-- The travelling-season, which causes thousands of people to leave their homes and hearths, has come round again.

Throughout Europe silk strings are being prepared to catch human birds of passage with.

Is Frisia--Old Frisia--to lag behind?
Impossible! Natural condition as well as population and history give to our province a right to claim a little attention and to be a hostess.

We beg to refer to the words of a Frenchman, M.Malte-Brun (quoted by one of the best Frisian authors), the English translation of which words runs as follows: "Eighteen centuries saw the river Rhine change its course, and the Ocean swallow its shores, but the Frisian nation has remained unchanged, and from an historical point of view deserves being taken an interest in by the descendants of the Franks as well as of the Anglo-Saxons and the Scandinavians." It is not often to a Frenchman that the author of this guide has to go for his purple patches.