These for adults; for boys the reading _par excellence_ was a serial romance, in weekly or monthly parts, entitled "De Wilsons en de Ring des Doods of het Spoor van pen Diamenten".

The Wilsons, I gather, have been having a great run in Holland.

A lurid scene in Maiden Lane was on the cover.

Another story which seemed to be popular had the engaging title "Beleaguered by Jaguars".
The Hague is very proud of the Bosch--the great wood to the east of the city, with a few deer and many tall and unpollarded trees, where one may walk and ride or drive very pleasantly.
The Bosch has no restaurant within its boundaries.

I mention this in order to save the reader the mortification of being conducted by a polite but firm waiter back to the gates of the pavilion in which he may reasonably have supposed he was as much entitled to order tea as any of the groups enjoying that beverage at the little tables within the enclosure, whose happiness had indeed led him to enter it.