EDITORIAL / DE LA RÉDACTION, page iii

JOOST DE WIT - A Look Behind the Veil: Some Aspects of the Promotion of Dutch Literature Abroad. page 1

ADRIAN VAN DEN HOVEN - Arthur van Schendel's Het Fregatschip Johanna Maria, page 9

MARTIN BAKKER - "Fatherland" and "Mother Tongue" in Nijhoff's Poetry, page 15

PATRICIA VERVOORT - Intertwined: Dutch Art of the Past and Contemporary Canadian Art, page 21

HERMINA JOLDERSMA - Renate Rubinstein: an Introduction, page 40

RENATE DORRESTEIN - How I Became a Writer, page 52

BOOK REVIEWS

DAVID MARLEY - Cornelis Ch. Goslinga: The Dutch in the Caribbean and in the Guianas, 1680-1791, page 63

Doreen Grey: The Reluctant Colonist, page 63