A treasure to read. If you stumble onto this book in a used or antique book store pick it up and read it. The writing is simply exquisite. Divided into the provinces of the Netherlands, the writer takes you to the various towns and cities, highlighting the history of the buildings and its famous or infamous personages. Written in the twenties it is also nice that the tumult of the Second World War is nowhere mentioned. Would that dark history of humanity had never happened. ( )