Hans Brinker

Complete and unabridged, with 10 full-page plates by Adriaen van Ostade, Pieter de Hooch and Nicolaes Maes. A poor boy in Holland races for silver skates on a frozen canal, while his father lies out of his mind after a fall on the dikes and the family's savings have been lost for ten years. Mary Mapes Dodge had never been to the Netherlands; she wrote it from books and from Dutch neighbours in New...