11 MARCH 1893, Page 15

"GOD'S FOOL."

[TO THE EDITOR OW THE " SPECTALTOR."1

SIR,—Your reviewer has deeply understood my book, even to the laying his finger upon the very text of Scripture which brightens on my memory, whenever I allow my thoughts to linger round Elias Lossol. I the more regret that his kindly and careful appreciation should leave a cumbersome doubt in his readers' minds. I ask for no clearer perception than hie, though I think he must allow me to protest against his too dreadful imputation of a "didactic motive ;" the work was complete before I had learnt the lesson of its (purely) fictitious hero, or surnamed him "God's Fool."—I am, Sir, &c.,

MAARTEN MAARTENS.