God's Fool' and
'Joost Avelingh' made for him an American reputation. To our mind
this just published work of his is his best.... He is a master of
epigram, an artist in description, a prophet in insight."--Boston
Advertiser.

"It would take several columns to give any adequate idea of the
superb way in which the Dutch novelist has developed his theme and
wrought out one of the most impressive stories of the period.... It
belongs to the small class of novels which one can not afford to
neglect."--San Francisco Chronicle.

"Maarten Maartens stands head and shoulders above the average
novelist of the day in intellectual subtlety and imaginative
power."--Boston Beacon.

GOD'S FOOL. By Maarten Maartens. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

"Throughout there is an epigrammatic force which would make
palatable a less interesting story of human lives or one less
deftly told."--London Saturday Review.

"Perfectly easy, graceful, humorous.... The author's skill in
character-drawing is undeniable."--London Chronicle.

"A remarkable work."--New York Times.

"Maarten Maartens has secured a firm footing in the eddies of
current literature.... Pathos deepens into tragedy in the thrilling
story of 'God's Fool.'"--Philadelphia Ledger.

"Its preface alone stamps the author as one of the leading English
novelists of to-day."--Boston Daily Advertiser.

"The story is wonderfully brilliant.... The interest never lags;
the style is realistic and intense; and there is a constantly
underlying current of subtle humor.... It is, in short, a book
which no student of modern literature should fail to
read."--Boston Times.

"A story of remarkable interest and point."--New York Observer.

JOOST AVELINGH. By Maarten Maartens. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

"So unmistakably good as to induce the hope that an acquaintance
with the Dutch literature of fiction may soon become more general
among us."--London Morning Post.

"In scarcely any of the sensational novels of the day will the
reader find more nature or more human nature."--London Standard.

"A novel of a very high type. At once strongly realistic and
powerfully idealistic."--London Literary World.

"Full of local color and rich in quaint phraseology and
suggestion."--London Telegraph.

"Maarten Maartens is a capital story-teller."--Pall Mall Gazette.

"Our English writers of fiction will have to look to their
laurels."-