Beautiful, but also amusing and also somewhat vain memoirs of Henri Wiessing (1878 - 1961) the former editor-in-chief of "De Amsterdammer" (better known as De Groene). In 1914 he was fired from there for being too independent-leftist. Then he founded - with 36 of the 38 Groene employees - "De Nieuwe Amsterdammer" (also called Mosgroene). That paper was disbanded in 1920 - for many readers, the Russia admirer Wiessing's course was too socially radical. Circumstances led him to England during the war years, where he became a contributor to Vrij Nederland ; there, too, he was dismissed for his independence (amusing is his outpouring about how Lou de Jong "acquired" his directorship of the RIOD at that time). After the war he contributed to De Vrije Katheder. In the register, " le Tout links, politiek en cultureel Nederland" passes in review, from Adama van Scheltema, Lodewijk van Deyssel, G.J.P. Bolland, Frans Coenen, Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, Frederik van Eeden, Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Jacques Gans, Frank van der Goes, Herman Gorter, Jacob Israël de Haan, H. P. Berlage, Henriëtte Roland Holst, Paul Rijkens, F. van 't Sant and P.L. Tak up to David Wijnkoop. With register and portrait of Wiessing as frontispiece. The Netherlands from 1900 to 1950.