| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| Introduction | ix |
| The King’s Dream—Frederick Van Eeden | 1 |
| The Dominie—C. K. Elout | 6 |
| My Hero—Conrad van der Liede | 35 |
| Newspaper Humour | 52 |
| A Rascally Valet—Multatuli | 55 |
| Droogstoppel Introduces Himself—Multatuli | 77 |
| Droogstoppel Pays a Charitable Visit—Multatuli | 83 |
| Aphorisms—Multatuli | 90 |
| Of Self-Depreciation—Multatuli | 93 |
| Of Education, with Practical Illustrations—Multatuli | 94 |
| Going into Business—Multatuli | 112 |
| Two Parables—Multatuli | 113 |
| Thersites and Plato—Multatuli | 115 |
| Egotism—Multatuli | 115 |
| The Story of Chresos—Multatuli | 116 |
| The Fairy Tale that Fancy told Wouter—Multatuli | 119 |
| Half-an-hour at the Hair-dresser’s—Anon. | 125 |
| In the Little Republic—L. H. J. Lamberts-Hurrelbrinck | 139 |
| Newspaper Humour | 173 |
| Fiction at Sea—A. Werumeus Buning | 174 |
| Newspaper Humour | 178 |
| Farmer Gerrit’s Visit to Amsterdam—J. J. Cremer | 184 |
| No Sword—“Humoristisch Album” | 197 |
| A Student’s Lodgings Sixty Years Since—J. Van Lennep | 200 |
| A Colonial Prize-Giving—Annie Foore | 205 |
| How Mathis Knoups turned “Liberal” and then “Catholic” again—Emile Seipgens | 212 |
| Newspaper Humour | 232 |
| The Candidate—T. H. Hooijer | 252 |
| Epigrams | 257 |
| The Village on the Frontier—Van Lennep | 261 |
| Proverbs | 290 |
| A Dutch Podsnap—Gerard Keller | 293 |
| Rough Draft of a New Set of Regulations—Uilenspiegel | 346 |
| The Story of a Bouquet—Uilenspiegel | 347 |
| Unbidden Guests—Annie Foore | 351 |
| Biographical Index of Writers | 393 |