Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.
| Charities. 17: 508. D. 15, ’06. 770w. |
Zuylen van Nyevelt, Suzette van, barones. Court life in the Dutch republic, 1638–1689. *$4. Dutton.
7–11547.
A history of Holland from 1638–1689 in which “we have family life in the upper classes, religious influences, literature and art, society and diplomacy! The bitterness between the Orangeists and anti-Orangeists, the strife of parties, the cumbrousness of the Dutch system of government, are all sympathetically explained.” (Nation.)
“Baroness van Zuylen van Nyevelt pilots the reader ably through the complicated genealogy of the house of Nassau. Her grasp of her subject and her wide sympathy both for the ill-fated and lovable Stuarts and the harder-headed and somewhat uncompromising Princes of Orange, would make a less dramatic period interesting.”
| + | Acad. 71: 545. D. 1, ’06. 910w. |
“The book fills a gap in the popular historical library, and is excellently written. It should be widely read.”