Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1915-09-23


homo wealth and tales of adventure Then its
sailors hammered at the arctic iccpack and
pushed their trade among tropiCai spce islands
Then it was that De Ruyter sailed up the Thames
with a broom at his masthead. then too that
Rembrandt painted and Vondel rhymed That
also for Holland was A great building age. when
prosperity caused cities to grow canals TO be
dug ports 10 be built and the multiplex activity
OF nutChmcn to manifest itself in all kinds OF
markings and shapines upon the surface of their
anphibious land-haIf earth half water Thus
II liz the Holland of Remhrandt's day and there
about that remains most interesting 70 the tray.
eler. and il is the buildings thon erected that arc
most worthy of study and presentation within
hrr towns
Amsterdam, rrh,,, p,,,,n.,,,. -. -, ....,.
There about 1f2i ,,s ,'assir, oti,,,..,Si
+brn,eb , ,,or,o1 - ,i.'5. ~, -, '','
of ~. ,,., h ...,N ''' ~,
scale st;u ra.oin,a .., -, y,
3,.yal e.e nh ,,1
.rrD,nr,o1,.;, s - =" ~ '''' w. NV
fr, non,,rat;,, ,1 , N,7 -','9 - ,
-narnsn,ro, ha,.t, ,' 'l'.'''7 ''1'7 "'' ""'''e
-
,'"S'eI""" grew IKE an onion. by layers sur
'''-S layers ABOUT center FROM time to
''"NS ~ '"ua'S were ADDED, NltA ra@'a'
'-'I-s' an" lH'H more rings OUTSIDE lHrM
~ ,o"' sc ioF'H'a walls We're erected round the
"1"ie al Inherent dates but they never lasted for
t-s -ity ,,,r,,ts, t,",,4 ~ "'" '"'4''S oS
lncarne ,,,aI ,i,ti '-,'' - ~ a. - ''N '"'u'
,-asnonsiI, rIn w. ''' , ",t'' ms ""' were
rho hooir,i,r - 49,, St, ''uo al
rood sa,,s, 49, 49, -. N--,"'' ''"N ''e
medieval so,s ~ ..;.,,y .IslNo, 'a' VI
,f ,Lo ors rS..et, 1 . U''' '"'' spar" SUM
,,o.,, ,,,,r,aa - q, 80. ~ Dff'''"e '.'"' ~
-ha tovo- comos Mort@,sa. VI nus
SANDS nv tho "a 60. 49, INN SIN
basins Of the earlier cono1 svs.ar,
the we1ioyaI fa..,soa,In was part Oh
q picturesque he'll towar nv tha asa;,ta, -
sllnrrstructure set IN +, tho ,oor tcns Thh
this was done hafore Re,,brandt,s aa,- ho oa,i..I
he stceple in an admirable drawing bn r,aao ~
It. thus giving one among countless instance
that might be cited of his attachment, ro+hor -,
the mast than to the coming tss+e NJ cha ,oo,I
Of bis dav The only other bipb tower a. Az,
..,prdan drawn nv hin, wao Tho u-as.l~,,r. -.
tovor OF the Westerkork on tho pr;rsar, ,-o,b.
which unfortunately we carno, ,,ro1roo ~ thta
place That tower was = fayori.a vf,h +ho taIi
az Amsterdam. and have more +ha, orco fourd
i, referred to in narratives Of Dutch eyn,o-a,ior
IA a measure nj bnjcr, &c FOR ;,s,oro, IT.
glacier cliff is said to have stood ont Of the son
about as high as the Westertoren 1t is A stored
tower, composed of four retreating rectangular
stages. each with columns at the angles not
unlike some Of Wrcn's towers In the city OF Lon
don
Nnc+ar+prnp a.~-
~athrr too late whom po,Iaa;ar t1,a. ,ora 80
Pn~tino Dntch .rcbt,on+s IT, n- s,a.n.. -,
tbc change of tasta which nod th. ,+ ~ d.,
brandt old fashioned and torn,inata4 HE MOS.
Da-ity The Mint to,,ar NJ tt4n or4 .ha 49,.
shown in our illustrations arc axar,,,,,s ~ A.,
,ztrrdan staenie architoctu-a ~ por,hraa,,t, 800
II thov must ha caIrod far,as,to 3d.,
.,-e certainly nictnroecue ord ad,,t~ahI,, o,tt.,
70 en,iven canal vista or to noko nm an, =,
Torcgroppd of crov.etonned rah1as
r,,o., 49,. a. .,,,,a,,,. - .
,,,,nstnas - ,bn nrant ta,. ~ n,,.,% -~ ms
,,','" W .". go has y, nu'ou ,on'an'e'
,s-e Gothic and reacbo the stvla elaborated tn
a1r,-re France also .at tho kov If archi,oc,nrat
z,vla i, the eighteenth captur, In tho eoror
,eepth century Ho,Iana stood on ber own foo,
and other folk tmitated tho work of har ortis,s
The putch stvle affected England. II was INT,
n, cd in the remarkable buildings erac,ed IN non
,ra-p for Christian ~ II nanetrsted n ,bo o,d.
- ,ho oor,b II won, Win NIT .,.ro,.,,.,ra =.