“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.= =God’s Fool.= “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._ _Joost Avelingh._ “Aside from the masterly handling of the principal characters and general interest in the story, the series of pictures of Dutch life give the book a charm peculiarly its own.”--_New York Herald._ D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of An Act in a Backwater, by E. F. Benson