“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.”—Birmingham Daily Post.