not only in the work in Amsterdam, but in the whole of the Netherlands.
The selection of a publisher was equally fortunate. Mr. A. van Oosterzee, of Amsterdam, published an edition of "The Story of the Jubilee Singers," which yielded a handsome profit for the benefit of the University. Without compensation he permitted the use of his office for the transaction of our general business, directed the correspondence in the Dutch language, and gave an amount of time to office work, and to personal labour in visiting different towns throughout the Netherlands to arrange the concerts, which entitles him to be enrolled as one of the most liberal contributors to the cause represented by the Singers.
The financial success of the eight weeks in the Netherlands has been relatively equal to the former success of the Singers in the United States and in Great Britain. £2,000 of Dutch gold has been sent to the Treasury of Fisk University.
Of the kindness of the people, and of the sympathy shown for the Jubilee Singers and their cause, we cannot make too grateful mention. The welcome extended by Mr. Ittmann and the Committee at Rotterdam, at the head of which was Mr. Hendrik Müller, Consul-General of Liberia, to the Singers on landing, was more like that given to friends returning home from a foreign land, than that usually given to strangers landing on a foreign shore.
His Majesty King William III. invited the Singers to his royal residence, the "Loo,' and expressed
