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    The Mentor: Holland, v. 2, Num. 6, Serial No. 58 May 1, 1914
    The Mentor: Holland, v. 2, Num. 6, Serial No. 58 May 1, 1914
    The Mentor: Holland, v. 2, Num. 6, Serial No. 58 May 1, 1914
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    The Mentor: Holland, v. 2, Num. 6, Serial No. 58 May 1, 1914

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    The Mentor: Holland, v. 2, Num. 6, Serial No. 58 May 1, 1914

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      The Mentor - Dwight Elmendorf

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mentor: Holland, v. 2, Num. 6, Serial

      No. 58, by Dwight Elmendorf

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      Title: The Mentor: Holland, v. 2, Num. 6, Serial No. 58

             May 1, 1914

      Author: Dwight Elmendorf

      Release Date: July 20, 2013 [EBook #43257]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MENTOR: HOLLAND, V. 2 ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Harry Lamé and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Please see the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text.

      THE MENTOR

      HOLLAND

      LEARN ONE THING

      EVERY DAY

      MAY 1 1914

      SERIAL No. 58

      THE

      MENTOR

      HOLLAND

      By DWIGHT L. ELMENDORF
      Lecturer and Traveller

      DEPARTMENT OF

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      VOLUME 2

      NUMBER 6

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      Copyright, 1914, by The Mentor Association, Inc.

      Entered as second-class matter March 10, 1913, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

      MONTALBANS TOWER, AMSTERDAM

      HOLLAND

      The History of Holland

       ONE 

      he history of Holland is a record of the unexpected. One might think that this flat country would have a story as monotonous as the land on which it is built, that it

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