Maarten Maartens (1858-1915), the pseudonym of Dutch author Jozuea Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz, who wrote in English, wrote four volumes of short stories. Thirty-two of the sixty-two short stories, his best according to his nephew, John Schwartz, are summarized in this book. In 1914, Ezzard Nidden, a well-known British critic, said,"Since Tolstoy died, only one great epic writer is left to us - Maarten Maartens. The book starts with...