most durable in his work as a critic. His one novel, Lidewyde, was written under strong French influences. Returning from the Dutch East Indies, Busken Huet settled for the remainder of his life in Paris. For the last quarter of a century he had been the acknowledged dictator in all questions of Dutch literary taste. Perfectly honest, desirous to be sympathetic, widely read, and devoid of all sectarian obstinacy, Busken Huet introduced into Holland the light and air of Europe. He made it his business to break down the narrow prejudices and the still narrower self-satisfaction of his countrymen, without endangering his influence by a mere effusion of paradox. He was a brilliant writer, who would have been admired in any language, but whose appearance in a literature so stiff and dead as that of Holland in the fifties was dazzling enough to produce a sort of awe and stupefaction. The posthumous correspondence of Busken Huet has been published. Also, Busken Huet used papers by Peter Thaborita for his description of Pier Gerlofs Donia. See also Alexander Johan Berman Notes References Attribution: Olf Praamstra, Busken Huet: Een biografie. Amsterdam: Sun, 2007; External links 1826 births 1886 deaths Dutch male novelists Journalists from The Hague 19th-century Dutch novelists 19th-century Dutch male writers Clergy from The Hague