Vitra : a Romance 'Twist the Real and the Ideal.
By Roman I. Znbof. (Cromwell and Co., New York.)—We presume this novel to be written by a Russian ; in that case, the author has acquired a creditable amount of knowledge of English for ordinary purposes, but not sufficient to render it prudent for him to rush into print in that language. It is difficult to make out the story, for what is intended to be real in it is crudely, even childishly, conceived, and what is intended to be ideal is purely preposterous. The author invents the queerest words, such, for instance, as "to explicate," and constantly gives us sentences of the following kind :—" We want [for girls] the cultivation and free development of those talents, which, even when they are absent [the italics are ours], are esteemed requisite in order to stand on an equality with every member of the community, and to occupy a consciously rational position in society."
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