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| Introduction | [ix] |
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| The King’s Dream—Frederick Van Eeden | [1] |
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| The Dominie—C. K. Elout | [6] |
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| My Hero—Conrad van der Liede | [35] |
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| Newspaper Humour | [52] |
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| A Rascally Valet—Multatuli | [55] |
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| Droogstoppel Introduces Himself—Multatuli | [77] |
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| Droogstoppel Pays a Charitable Visit—Multatuli | [83] |
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| Aphorisms—Multatuli | [90] |
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| Of Self-Depreciation—Multatuli | [93] |
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| Of Education, with Practical Illustrations—Multatuli | [94] |
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| Going into Business—Multatuli | [112] |
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| Two Parables—Multatuli | [113] |
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| Thersites and Plato—Multatuli | [115] |
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| Egotism—Multatuli | [115] |
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| The Story of Chresos—Multatuli | [116] |
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| The Fairy Tale that Fancy told Wouter—Multatuli | [119] |
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| Half-an-hour at the Hair-dresser’s—Anon. | [125] |
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| In the Little Republic—L. H. J. Lamberts-Hurrelbrinck | [139] |
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| Newspaper Humour | [173] |
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| Fiction at Sea—A. Werumeus Buning | [174] |
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| Newspaper Humour | [178] |
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| Farmer Gerrit’s Visit to Amsterdam—J. J. Cremer | [184] |
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| No Sword—“Humoristisch Album” | [197] |
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| A Student’s Lodgings Sixty Years Since—J. Van Lennep | [200] |
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| A Colonial Prize-Giving—Annie Foore | [205] |
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| How Mathis Knoups turned “Liberal” and then “Catholic” again—Emile Seipgens | [212] |
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| Newspaper Humour | [232] |
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| The Candidate—T. H. Hooijer | [252] |
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| Epigrams | [257] |
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| The Village on the Frontier—Van Lennep | [261] |
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| Proverbs | [290] |
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| A Dutch Podsnap—Gerard Keller | [293] |
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| Rough Draft of a New Set of Regulations—Uilenspiegel | [346] |
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| The Story of a Bouquet—Uilenspiegel | [347] |
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| Unbidden Guests—Annie Foore | [351] |
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| Biographical Index of Writers | [393] |
