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of Charles the Bold and his daughter, Mary of Burgundy. In Brussels 

 it lived in the airy Upper Town, reveled in the Old Square, haunted the 

 Cathedral of St. Gudule, traced the development of Flemish art from 

 its beginning as seen in Bruges and Ghent. It has learned to appreciate 



the saying, " All the 

 Dutch towns are 

 amphibious, but 

 some are more 

 watery than others," 

 and might chuckle 

 comprehend ingly 

 over anecdotes 

 illustrative of Dutch 

 cleanliness and of the 

 masterful ways of 

 the earlier Dutch 

 women. 



The club has join- 

 ed the gossips on the 

 Lange Pooten at The 

 Hague and has 

 learned that the foot- 

 board of the steam 

 tram in Holland is 

 as satisfactory to the 

 sight-seer as is the 

 London "bus" or 

 the New York Fifth 

 Avenue motor- 

 coach. It has 

 traveled from Ley- 

 den to Haarlem in 

 April — thetulip 



season — "through 

 Fig. 61. — A portrait hy Rembrandt ({A f 1 " fVi 



color of the rich blossoms, and has driven out from the latter city over the 

 dunes that stretch to the North Sea. It has visited Naarden and Muiden, 

 medieval and still surrounded by moats and fortifications, and it has been on 

 the wide sands at Schcveningen, where Dutch costumes are seen at their best. 

 Above all, the club has been invited by both Belgium and Holland to 

 an acquaintance with great artists, such masters as Memling, Jan van 

 Eyck, the founder of the Flemish School, Jan Steen, and Rembrandt 



