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REFRESHMENTS 



As for refreshments at the later meetings, they will, of course, be eaten 

 from delft if the club owns such ware, and they must be exceedingly simple : 

 biscuits and edam cheese, thin sandwiches 

 of brown loaf containing raisins, hot milk 

 boiled with aniseed; perhaps gingerbread 

 and tarts and taffy. Taffy made by a 

 club rule will do, but it should go by the 

 name of "haagische hopjes." 



actual visits to art museums and 

 libraries 



Some one has said that " by far the 

 best and truest teachers are the eyes." 

 Be that as it may, the club is going to visit 

 the nearest art museums and the library 

 that has the finest illustrated works. 

 Moreover, it is going to make its own 

 collection of photographs that reproduce 

 the masterpieces before which it has 

 stood in imagination. Copley prints and 

 Perry pictures are too familiar to need 

 description. There are many photo- 

 graphic companies that furnish reproductions of the world's art 

 treasures. 



WHAT TRAVEL SHOULD DO FOR THE CLUB 



Its journey has not been long, but if every member has told well the 

 story of the town assigned to him, the club has acquired a variety of 

 knowledge. 



It realizes that " long before England had risen above the condition 

 of an agricultural country, Belgium ranked as a mighty commercial 

 focus; " that " while Liverpool was a tidal waste on the Mersey, Bruges 

 was the great port for the exportation of cloth and the importation of 

 wool, and furs, and spices; " that " while Manchester was a rural market 

 town, Ghent was the center of the textile industries of Europe." It under- 

 stands, therefore, why Flemish art deals with commercial life, why the 

 Belfry, the Cloth Hall, the Town Hall, the Exchange, are its great buildings, 

 and why its pictures are largely portraits of rich merchants. In Ghent 

 it stood before the " Adoration of the Lamb " by Hubert and Jan van 

 Eyck, the first great picture of the Flemish School, and in Bruges it had 

 its first vivid lesson in the history of the Netherlands in front of the tombs 



Fig. 60. — ChUdreii of Holland 



