Classics Illustrated 073 The Black Tulip

In the year 1671, Holland lay calm and peaceful in the sunshine, her land interlaced with bright canals and dotted with shiny windmills and covered with the gay flower-beds of ever-toiling prosperous burghers. But peace-loving Holland was beset by hostile neighbours, and beneath the untroubled exterior, her government was corrupted by sinister rivalries, both political and personal ...