CURRENT LITERATURE.
GIFT-BOOKS.
he Boy-Slave in Bokhara. By David Ker. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—This story takes a place of its own among the literature of the season. The boy-slave, a young Russian, who has been carried off by Tartars, is a real person, and moves among real surroundings. This fact makes itself felt at once. We perceive that we are not among the cleverly-contrived incidents of the tale-writer, but in the presence of a real life. This life is, indeed, barbarous and brutal. Tliere is a hideous amount of bloodshed in it, but the genuineness of the picture is manifest. We can recommend it to our readers, not only as an eminently readable story, bat as throwing a very instruc- tive light on Central-Asian affairs. Whatever the past motives and future purposes of Russia may be, there can be no doubt that she has done good service to humanity by crushing these hideous tyrannies, of which Bokhara was a representative specimen. From the same author and publisher we have The Wild Horseman of the Pampas.
Previous page
