文档介绍：HANS BRINKER
by Mary Mapes Dodge
作者简介
道奇玛丽( ),作家,
生于纽约市。年与律师威廉·道奇( )结婚,
年丈夫死后开始写儿童读物。主要写有《汉斯·布林克》(
),该书又名《银冰鞋》( ),是
儿童文学的经典之作。
Preface
This little work aims bine the instructive features of a book of
travels with the interest of a domestic tale. Throughout its pages the de-
scriptions of Dutch localities, customs, and general characteristics have
been given with scrupulous care. Many of its incidents are drawn from life,
and the story of Raff Brinker is founded strictly upon fact.
While acknowledging my obligations to many well-known writers on
Dutch history, literature, and art, I turn with especial gratitude to those kind
Holland friends who, with generous zeal, have taken many a backward
glance at their country for my sake, seeing it as it looked twenty years ago,
when the Brinker home stood unnoticed in sunlight and shadow.
Should this simple narrative serve to give my young readers a just idea of
Holland and its resources, or present true pictures of its inhabitants and
their every-day life, or free them from certain current prejudices concern-
ing that noble and enterprising people, the leading desire in writing it will
have been satisfied.
Should it cause even one heart to feel a deeper trust in God’s goodness
and love, or aid any in weaving a life, wherein, through knots and
entanglements, the golden thread shall never be tarnished or broken, the
prayer with which it was begun and ended will have been answered.
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A LETTER FROM HOLLAND
Amsterdam, July 30, 1873
DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS AT HOME:
If you all could be here with me today, what fine times we might have
walking through this beautiful Dutch city! How we should stare at the
crooked houses, standing with their gable ends to the street; at the little
slanting mirrors fastened outside of the windows; at the wooden shoes and
dogcarts nearby; the windmills in the distance; at the great warehouses; at
the canals, doing the double duty of streets and rivers, and a