Author: IDO, V. (=H. VAN DE WALL),
Title: Indië in den goeden ouden tijd. Radio-voordrachten voor de NIROM gehouden. Derde druk. (third edn.).
Description: Bandoeng, A.C. Nix & Co., 1936. 2 vols., small 8°. Orig. boards, title on front-sides and spines. 254, 258pp. 2 frontispieces (author's identical portraits), tables of contents, literature-sources and publ. advert. printed on last unnumbered lve. of each volume. BUUR, PD., 1289 (Vol. II of third edition NOT published). Each volume contains 20 radio-talks, as held before dutch colonial radio association, NIROM, being stories, based upon historical facts, relating to by-gone days or Tempo Doeloe, in dutch colonial Indonesia. A variety of subjects as social and cultural life, important historical events as the Lombock war of 1894, colonial civil service, the dutch East India Company V.O.C., experiences of art-critics before 1900, life at Batavia, Club-life, the so-called Outer-Provinces, foreign high-ranking visitors as the King of Siam (Thailand) and the Grand-duke Nicolas Alexandrovitch of Russia, Grand-duke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungaria, popular personages as Mina Kruseman and mother Staleman, Governors-General as Daendels, art-life and society of Batavia in the latter part of the nineteenth century, *c.. According to a note on verso of dedication-lve. to volume II, some extra stories have been added, NOT relayed in the original radio-talks. An interesting collection of petite history of the late nineteenth century in dutch colonial Indonesia. Vol. I: third edition; vol. II: Second edition. Good set. (some very light damage to lower right corner at front side of volume I).

Keywords: literature history stories social cultural life tempo doeloe colonialism indonesia southeast asia buur stories