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"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."
Each sang his own little song and fretted his whining prayer. Above all this rose the dull toot of the baker's horn, as he kept on shouting: "Hot bread! Hot bread!" High hung the moon and blinked the stars; and fine white shafts fell through the air, upon everything around, like silver pollen. "Maarten of the mountain!" whispered the children behind the window. "Maarten the Freezyman!"
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.
"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.
Then the chairs were pushed close, right round the hearth, and Maarten stood up, took his star, smoothed his long beard and, keeping time by tugging the string of his star, droned out: On Christmas night Is Jesus born To fight our fight Against the night Of Satan and his devil-spawn.
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