INTRODUCTION, page 1

CORNELIA N. MOORE - Johan S. Stavorinus, Patriot in an Age of Reason, page 4

E. M. BEEKMAN - Junghuhn's Perception of Javanese Nature, page 11

ROBERT VAN NIEL - A Perception of a Perception of a Perception: Multatuli's View of Java in the 1850s, page 21

GERARD TERMORSHUIZEN - A Life Free from Trammels; Soewarsih Djojopoespito and her novel Buiten het Gareel, page 30

FRANS VAN ROSEVELT - The Character of Professor McNeil in Maria Dermoût's The Ten Thousand Things, page 38

AUGUSTINUS P. DIERICK - What if the Twain Do Meet? Prevalent Patterns in the Encounter between East and West in Some Dutch Novels of the East Indies., page 42

MARIEKE JALINK-WIJBRANS - 'The Spirit is Victorious', A Forgotten War, page 51

Bibliography, page 58