New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-09-10
THE WHITE SLAVE; or

THE WHITE SLAVE or TmE RUSSIAN PEASANT.
Gim.; BY the author Of Revelations Of Russia,
No 60 of the Library OF Select Novels, published by
Harper & Brothers, Clii-st. \. Y. lsi5.
This is a deeply interesting book. The objects OF
the author ara best stated in his words
THE author Of the White Slave. anxious to popular
ze knowledge OF the condition of the Russian
serf among people who sacrificed twenty millions ster
hing 10 the Acknowledgement Of its own colonial blacks
has been DESTROYS of rendering his work amusing the
Peadcsi towards eflscting this object
The personages whom he has called into life IN this
story have been introduced not 10 aid the writer in e
fectng conquest in the domain of hcon, bu. as the
types OF classes and the vehicles for conveying 10
the world impression OF state OF things which no
thing will tend much TO alter eventually as the public
indignation however slow the remedy.
He has only used the privilege of the novelist far
the chronological arrangement OF his matter was con
cened and shifting the well the period of
real evenssuch the anachrOnsm of the death Of the
great Russian poet or the execution OF the s"ctara or
making atayern 81 Petersburg the theatre OF VIC
ence which in reality took place in the neighborhood
OF Warsaw
AT the same time he bcgs il TO be distinctly under.
stood that he has taken farther liberty with the
doies relating to any of the personsge named and that
every incident interviewer IN his tale Is founded
atty, every imaginary character compounded from real
Characters thsi whilst endesvorng sketch wildly
as MS powers OF description and his personal remnis
eenses would allow few OF the most prominent classes
OF ne Russian people the author has never vcntured
oquii the regions OF probability. unless when he
sohering 10 literal though startling truth"
The character of the book is one ofliving reality
There is none OF the productive power of genius
no re presentation it is the Journal of a kind and
generous man. with an eve for character keen
sense for It's higher manifestations but without
der at its lower for he knows how 10 allow for in
nuences and circumstances. We have seen either
these or exactly similar passages given Of the con
duct OF the Grand Duke Constantine in the foreign
journals minus the relentings the CLEANS of human
qa,ure, through the ouiages Of the brute. We
nave never before seen these traced To their
nor understood why, if more cruelty mad than his
4'ber. he was not likewise arrested ia his course.
ietwe have always felt an instructive preference
nm to the Emperor Nicholas, who il not 40
ssringly violent, is more unrelcntng in cruelty
The two characters are well portrayed though with
sw marks. and the truth OF portraiturc none can
'oaot Nicholas il, as private man, the slave
master Of twenty millions OF men, as public of
sSty never for moment untrue to the character
ms position demands. Constantine was a mad bull
mat trsmpled to death many victims ", cspa-
''e sometimes Of being turned aside by gentle
'ana' Beautiful is the account Of his duchess.
'eao'uui even her love for monster II was that
protecting angel for one whom in the wide
~o'h there was none else to love. perhaps TO save.
."s ovelintss this Heaven inspired mo,hcrly love.
'een IN the conduct of women every where, but
's'e 1t shines from the high, with the diamond lus
y, eo' star The Peasant Girl is also full Of a no
SIMPLE Inspiration and seems no less than the
'aches~, painted from the life
Inc oarbarisms are exactly the same as occur in
~ own country under different circumstance
."e book combines foreign with domestic inte-
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