Excerpt from Pictures From Holland Drawn With Pen and Pencil The end for which this book has been written, will be served if it helps in any way to indicate how much the men of Holland have done to benefit the world in the great departments of architecture, art, political and municipal life, and, above all. In the battle for freedom of thought and worship in religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.