And then you will understand how the year 1913, proud of what has been achieved, though not content that the goal has been reached, can well afford to tell the truth about the year 1813. For after a century and a half of decline Holland once more has aspired to be great in everything in which a small nation can be great.
New York, N.Y., October 31, 1913.
CONTENTS
[APOLOGIA]
[FOREWORD]
[DRAMATIS PERSONÆ]
[PROLOGUE]
[THE LAST DAYS OF THE OLD ORDER]
[THE REVOLUTION]
[THE COST OF REVOLUTION]
[THE PROVISIONAL]
[THE OPENING CEREMONIES]
[PIETER PAULUS]
[NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NO. I AT WORK]
[NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NO. II AT WORK]
[GLORY ABROAD]
[COUP D'ÉTAT NO. I]
[THE CONSTITUTIONAL]
[COUP D'ÉTAT NO. II]
[CONSTITUTION NO. II AT WORK]
[MORE GLORY ABROAD]
[CONSTITUTION NO. III]
[THE THIRD CONSTITUTION AT WORK]
[ECONOMIC CONDITION]
[SOCIAL LIFE]
[PEACE]
[SCHIMMELPENNINCK]
[KING LOUIS OF HOLLAND]
[THE DEPARTMENT FORMERLY CALLED HOLLAND]
[LIBERATION]
[THE RESTORATION]
[WILLIAM I]
[A COMPARISON OF THE FOUR CONSTITUTIONS OF HOLLAND]
[BIBLIOGRAPHY]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
HALF-TONES
[William I] Frontispiece
[The Estates of Holland]
[Flight of William V]
[Krayenhoff]
[Warship entering the Port of Amsterdam]
[Daendels]
[French troops entering Amsterdam]
[Capetown captured by the English]
[Pieter Paulus]
[The National Assembly]
[The speaker of the Assembly welcoming the French minister]
[Invasion of the British]
[Dutch troops rushing to the defence of the coast]
[Armed bark of the year 1801]
[The executive council of the East India Company]
[Dutch ships frozen in the ice]
[Batavia—the fashionable quarter]
[A country place]
[Skating on the River Maas at Rotterdam]
[Trades: Printer, Bookbinder, Diamond Cutter, The Mint]
[Schimmelpenninck]
[Schimmelpenninck arrives at The Hague]
[Louis Napoleon]
[Napoleon visits Amsterdam]
[Departure of Gardes D'Honneur from Amsterdam]
[Gysbert Karel van Hogendorp]
[Proclamation of the new government]
[Arrival of William I in Scheveningen]
[Lieutenant Van Speyck blows up his ship]
[King William II]
Line maps in text on pages [17], [25], [94], [207], [216], [217], [252]
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ (in order of their appearance).
CURTAIN: December, 1795.