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CHAPTER IV
HOLLAND'S ARTISTIC SIDE
Art, Past and Present—Museums—“The Spaander”—Churches—Universities.
ART is sedulously cultivated in Holland, and one is the whole time looking at an endless unrolling of pictures, both indoors and outside—binnen en buiten. A walk through the streets of any village, town, or city of the Netherlands gladdens the eye. There is high art in the Rijks and in the Stedelijk Museums in Amsterdam, and in the Mauritshuis at The Hague, to mention the three principal picture-galleries of the “lowlands.” But there is art in the streets of little Mon-
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