Boris the Bear Hunter. By Frederick Wishaw. (Nelson and Sons.)—Boris,
a young Moujik renowned for his strength and courage, is employed by his owners in killing the bears that infest the country-side. On one of these expeditions he is saved from an untimely fate by Peter the Great, and thence springs up an intimacy that gives a capital plot for the story. Boris aczom- panics the young Czar to Englanc1,—in fact, is treated as a brother, and has all the freedom of speech of a brother. The various dangers the two go through, the never-failing self-respect which enables Boris to withstand his master even at the peril of his life, and the mad vagaries of the Czar, make up a capital story, well and vigorously told. Once, and once only, he falls into dis- grace; he refuses to execute with his own hand some brother officers of the Streitzi ; but he once more regains his master's favour, and all ends well. The wild and wayward but earnest and generous character of Peter is most happily hit off. On the whole, we can recommend Boris the Bear Hunter as giving to boys a very life-like portrait of the great Czar.
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