Flemish Life in Four Stories

The stories in this volume are:Author's Address to His FriendsThe RecruitMine Host GansendonckBlind RosaThe Poor NoblemanHendrik Conscience won his place in the literature of the world, which he held to the end of his busy career; the titles of his books mount up to a hundred.But while he was hailed as a great author by all Europe, the deeper and more enduring value of his work, which is the rehabilitation of a language and the founding of a literature, was understood only in Belgium itself and in Holland.