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Stories from Waverley. By Mrs. Alfred Barton. Second Series. (A.

and C. Black.)—These are abbreviations from Sir Walter Scott, the present series containing three stories, viz., " Old Mortality," " The Fair Maid of Perth," and " The Pirate."— With this may be mentioned Stories and Legends from Washington Irving (G. P. Putnam's Sons). Here, happily, there has not been the same necessity for abbreviation. The stories number ten, some of them being less generally known than others, as "The Adalantado of the Seven Cities" and "The Early Ex- periences of Ralph Ringwood."