The Hague Dutch precision--Shaping hands--Nature under control--Willow _v_.

Neptune--The lost star--S'Gravenhage--The Mauritshuis--Rembrandt--The "School of Anatomy"-- Jan Vermeer of Delft--The frontispiece--Other pictures--The Municipal Museum--Baron Steengracht's collection--The Mesdag treasures--French romantics at The Hague--The Binnenhof--John van Olden Barneveldt--Man's cruelty to man--The churches--The fish market and first taste of Scheveningen--A crowded street--Holland's reading--The Bosch--The club--The House in the Wood--Mr."Secretary" Prior--Old marvels--Howell the receptive and Coryate the credulous.
Although often akin to the English, the Dutch character differs from it very noticeably in the matter of precision.

The Englishman has little precision; the Dutchman has too much.

He bends everything to it.

He has at its dictates divided his whole country into parellelograms.