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Stories of the Sea. (Blackie and Sons.)—These "true stories" will

be a pleasant alterative to the romantic fictions amongst which they appear. Some of them, as "The Life and Melancholy Fate of La Perouse,' " "The Mutiny of the 'Bounty,'" are well known. Others, as the "Adventures of Pietro Quirini," are comparatively fresh.