The Holland Society of New York - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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HOLLAND SOCIETY LECTURES. The circular in reference to these lectures sent out by President Low was as follows : COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND A LITERATURES. HOLLAND SOCIETY LECTURES ON DUTCH LITER- ATURE BY LEONARD CHARLES VAN NOPPEN, A.M. p TO BE GIVEN IN THE CHAPEL OF THE FIFTH AVENUE COLLEGIATE REFORMED CHURCH, FORTY-EIGHTH STREET AND FIFTH AVENUE,ON.AFTERNOONSIN'FEBRUARNYAND MARCH, Igor, AT HALF-PAST FOUR O'C'LOCK. February 26--Vondel's Samson 5 a comparison with Milton'S Samson Agonistesf' March 5-Vondel's Adam in Banishment 3 a comparison with the Adamus exul of Grotius and Milton's Paradise Lost. IIO O 13 W E S WI' TH C S Lit und the Cha wor T prec I ber cl the l- This genell held hithe Were Spite

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Jpular lranje V ren- lh for literal mrigin istory fear- , first ange, was vhich and d in ch fl pper 11 to :olor ig of neer waS that the .nf ii 1 ielll Iog It will interest all who have fou d 1 ' H p easure and? profit in Motley's Rzse of the Dunk Republic, to learn that Mr. Dingman Versteeg, who has trans- lated for our Society many Dutch record h s, as now in press to be published in a few weeks, a history of the Sea Beggars, showing the part they had in freeing the Netherlands from the Spanish yoke. The badge of the Zeeland sailors, or Beggars of the Sea, illustrates the intensity of the ant ' agonism at that time prevailing, the motto on one side bein 8' Liever Turcx dan Paus, -that is, Rather Turk than Papistng and on the reverse En des it del , P 3 mes, - In spite of the Mass. The sincerity of this motto was evidently still further enforced by the shape of the badge, that of the Turkish crescent. We give an illustration of it which appeared on page 1o9 of the Year Book for 1886-7. - .-. v' -14 4 ' ,-H..G:Px,12u'J:2:g3g:gg. . . 1 I T., -, . ,A.11g,,w '-cj,-.X 2:25-nigh-,fag P , ZFQ1' ui ' ., '35 'cf Us iE'lnE'- - 1 . ' f 1- z? 1, ' ff fig? -' it I E5 ' W' -lzff 4 is if 'W '. .2--.f gg, 5. I ,,. Ts- pa 'Q' 2' 'i'-.ff ' 5 ph- s. q 'EL 1 Q 2. , as - , a R.. 1- !-4-vg 4 V 2 1- lil 2295 mi- 5' r- re.- rv-.5 1- .15 E z , . E 5 Q' li pw -1:2 . -fer it , we V i 1 . . , .. , , f - 2' V 5' -,F -355: --Ja .3 gi .v - 'iu ' 1- -1 .. f . . I, wfv e 11 -, i- 1,5-5 .,mYy'i ' ' Q I .fwbv ,un-iff'

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9 Q sent iITY D . TER- GIATE TH ison ntlls tiuS III March I2-Vondel as a l rist I ' h of some of his best lyrics. March IQ-HOOft, the Dutch Tacitus, and the second lyrist of his age. Y ,wit translations March 26-Huygens, the poet of manners, the wit and man of fashion, diplomat, and Statesman March 29-The Nieuwe Gids school: Van Eeden, the first Dutch poet of to-d Swarth, the singer of moods. HY, and Helene You are cordially invited to be present, No tickets are required. SETH Low, LL. D., I 4 President. In reference to these lectures Professor Carpenter wrote as follows : COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY or NEW YORK, DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES. April, IS, IQOI. THEODORE M. BANTA, ESQ., Secretary of the Holland Society, DEAR SIR: The course of lectures on Dutch Literature delivered this year for the third time under the auspices of Columbia University, through the munificence of the Holland Society, by Leonard Charles Van Noppen, A.lVI., calls at the end for a word of comment on the part of the University. The audiences this year, although as usual ap- preciative, have not been as large in the total num- ber of attendance as in the preceding years when the lectures were held on the University grounds. This has apparently been due in great part to the general inaccessibility of the place where they were held to the students of the University, who have hitherto formed a part of the audience, but who were this time almost entirely unrepresented. In spite of its apparent distance from the centre of