by LOUIS COUPERUS translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos The Hidden Force gives a picture of life in the Dutch East Indies in the last year of the nineteenth and the first year of the twentieth century. Conditions have altered slightly since then--Dutch ladies no longer wear "sarong" and "kabaai" so generally, and there are other minor changes--but the relations between the Europeans and the natives remain very much as they were.…
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