Laila ; or, Sketches from Finmarkens. By J. A. Friis.
Translated from the Norwegian by the Earl of Dade. (S.P.C.K.)—Laila is a little Norwegian, who is lost as a baby by being thrown out of a sledge pursued by wolves, and adopted by a rich Finn, in whose house in company with another adopted child, she spends her early years. When she grows to womanhood she has romantic adventures, but it is not the story so much as the singularly vivid pictures of a life which is almost wholly unknown to readers here that will chiefly please in Lai/a. The turning-point of the story is, or is, anyhow, closely connected with, the pride of race which makes the Norwegians look down upon the Finn as an inferior being. " This girl," cries Lind, "is not Logje's" (" Logje" is the name of her adopting father), "and she shall not wed a Finn."
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