The complete online text of By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic by G. A. Henty.

When Victoria ascended the British throne on 20 June 1837, G. A. Henty was not yet five years old. Yet in thousands of young boys' lives Henty was destined to be as important as the queen. In a 1980 review of the most recent biography of Henty, Eric Stok...

G. A. Henty once described himself as "a fierce and truculent Briton, ready to defy the whole world." It was an exaggerated yet appropriate description, given Henty's character and appearance. He was a tall, powerfully built man, with a large head and a...

Price, J. L. The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century New York: St. Martin's Press 172 pp., $59.95 cloth $21.95 paper ISBN 0-312-21732-3 cloth ISBN 0-312-21733-1 paper Publication Date: February 1999 The study of the history of the Netherlands has always suffered...

By Jonathan Israel. Volume I, The Oxford History of Early Modern Europe. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. xxx, 1231. $39.95.) Jonathan Israel's magnum opus is the first volume of the new Oxford History of Early Modern Europe. If Israel's work is any...