: Walter Pieterse: A Story of Holland by Multatuli Evans Hubert Translator - Netherlands Fiction

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The origin of the story: regarding poetry, incurable love, false hair, and the hero of the story--The dangers of fame and the advantage of the upper shelf--The Chinaman's pigtail, and the collar of humanity 1

An Italian robber on the "Buitensingel" in Amsterdam--The bitter suffering of the virtuous Amalia--Wax candles, the palisades of morality--The cunning of the little Hallemans--The limitations of space 9

The difference between a sugar bowl and a Bible--Leentje's virtues and defects--An unfounded suspicion against Pennewip's honor 18

The profound silence of Juffrouw Laps--Stoffel's sermon--Walter's fidelity to Glorioso--The last king of Athens--Ruined stomachs and bursted ear-drums 24

How one may become a great man--The cleverness of M'sieu Millaire--Versifying and the art of classifying everything--Hobby-horses 27

Preparations for a party--The assignment of r?les--The conflict between wishing and being--Some tricks of fancy--The two sawmills--Amalia and the ducks 34

Poetry and wigs--The vexation and despair of the latter 42

A tea-evening, and how it began--Some gaps in the author's knowledge--Stoffel's zo?logical joke--The cause of the last Punic war--And the advantage of smoking 48

Echoes of the last Punic war--The defeat of Hannibal by Scipio 61

Causes of the tedious peace in Europe, showing the value of a "tea-evening" as a study--Specimens of school-verse concluded--Suitable for society poets and clever children 68

Report on the condition of the leading characters after the catastrophe--Walter again: a character-study 75

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