13 JANUARY 1894, Page 26

In the " Dryburgh Edition" of the " Waverley Novels"

(A. and C. Black) we have Peveril of the Peak, with ten illustrations, drawn by Stanley Berkeley ; in the "Border Edition" of the same (J. C. Nimmo), Quentin Durward, in two volumes. Mr. Andrew Lang's introductory essay is particularly interesting. He regards Quentin Durward as "in a sense the best of the Waverley Novels," a judgment in which many will agree with him. Yet it was scarcely a success, at least at first. Its transcendent merits were first recognised in France.