But Holland exists for the State, and such an idea as the depreciation or ruin of property by running a tram line over it has never suggested itself.

It is true that when the new electric tramway between Amsterdam and Haarlem was projected, the comic papers came to the defence of outraged Nature; but they did not really mean it, as the aesthetic minority in England would have meant it.
The steam-tram journeys are always interesting; and my advice to a traveller in Holland is to make as much use of them as he can.

This is quite simple as their time-tables are included in the official Reisgids.

I like them at all times; but best perhaps when one has to wait in the heart of some quiet village for the other tram to come up.

There is something very soothing and attractive in these sudden cessations of noise and movement in the midst of a totally strange community.
Leyden is a paradise of clean, quiet streets--a city of professors, students and soldiers.