A Descriptive Reading on Belgium

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Excerpt from A Descriptive Reading on Belgium: Illustrated by Twelve Lantern SlidesTreaty of London, and after a long and difficult siege, took Antwerp. Its closely allied relations to France, though now a royalty again, accounts for the polish of its people, for the official language of the country is French, and almost all its literature is compiled in that tongue. Flemish is spoken however, and has had, and has in our day many noted writers. It was in 1883 that an order was issued to all the schools in the provinces, authorizing the teaching of the Flem ish language. As Archbishop Trench, in his masterly work, The Study of Words, claims'that the pro gression of a nation is surely marked and discerned by the refinement of their conversations and writings, so is it of true art, which is the right arm of refine ment and culture. Therefore, logically followed out on this premise, Belgium asserts herself as the seat of culture, for art has been her stronghold for many centuries.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.