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Stories from "Black and White." By W. E. Norris, and

others. (Chapman and Hall.)—These eight stories, adorned with portraits of their authors, are reprinted from the magazine which gives thorn a name. The authors, some of our best writers of fiction, are not unequal to themselves. Mr. Clark Russell, in particular, tells an admirable story of the sea,—a story, too, which has a very notable look of verisimilitude. If any reader should be in the habit of bathing from a boat, lot him either leave all his valuables on shore, or very carefully examine the countenance of his boat- man. Mr. James Payn is at once amusing and tragic. Mr. T. Harvey is tragic only, while Mr. Grant Allen puts a nice little farce into the shape of a tale.