Leyden and Its Archives.

The article discusses the civilization of the city of Leyden in Western Netherlands. Few cities in Europe are more interesting to the historical student than that in which the founders of New England received their political training. Here, during ten years of peace, in the truce between the little fighting republic and giant Spain, dwelt the Pilgrim Fathers. Here they saw, under their own eyes and in actual working, political principles and institutions which they transplanted to virgin shores and a larger field. Here one finds abundant and overwhelming evidence of the existence centuries before their arrival, of things which our local writers of American history imagine wore "invented " in New England.