" THE NETHERLANDS DISPLAY'D "
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR ,--May I point out, with regard to your reviewer's comments on The Netherlands Display'd that this is not intended to rival the invaluable Baedeker, nor written to help those looking for meals, which are easily enough obtained in Dutch towns ; also, that most of the information in the book is not to be found in this invaluable guide or any other guide written in English, nor are there " chunks of history " interspersed with " guide book information."
Any but a perfunctory reader will observe a definite plan in the presentation of a vast and difficult subject, with which a great deal of care has been taken and which cannot be fairly judged, save by those with some knowledge of the matters dealt with, and some small appreciation of the labour such an effort involves. A good deal of the matter given has not appeared in this language before, being absorbed from old French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish, and in cases from the Latin.—I am, Sir, &e.,
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