A Race for Life. By Fred Whishaw. (Griffith, Ferran, and
Co.) —A party of sportsmen, encamped in the forests near Lake Ladoga, during the early spring—the close time for game in Russia does not include, it would seem, the pairing season— amuse themselves, while they are waiting for an early start, by telling tales of narrow escapes. Two skaters are in danger from wolves—would three wolves attack two men ?—another has an adventure with a family of lions, a third confronts a most ferocious and gigantic bear, a fourth, again, is nearly killed by a tiger. Such and such like are the tales which Mr. Whishaw recounts for our benefit, and very spirited narratives they are. The narrator ingeniously arranges that fiction as well as fact was admissible at the camp fire, so that it is needless to discuss probabilities.
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