My own feeling is that it is not a style that will wear well.

For a permanent public building something more classic is probably desirable; and at Amsterdam, that city of sombre colouring, I would have had darker hues than the red and yellow that have been employed.

The site of the old Bourse is now an open space.
It is stated that the kindly custom of allowing the children of Amsterdam the run of the Bourse as a playground for a week every year is some compensation for the suppression of the Kermis, but another story makes the sanction a perpetual reward for an heroic deed against the Spaniards performed by a child in 1622.
My advice to any one visiting Amsterdam is first to study a map of the city--Baedeker gives a very useful one--and thus to begin with a general idea of the lie of the land and the water.

With this knowledge, and the assistance of the trams, it should not appear a very bewildering place.

The Dam is its heart: a fact the acquisition of which will help very sensibly.