28 MAY 1932, Page 30

THE YOUNG FOLK'S SIR WALTER SCOTT By Patrick Braybrooke

Those of us who love the Waverley Novels may admit that young readers are often chilled by the preliminary descriptions of scenery before they get to the story. Mr. Patrick Braybrooke,• in compiling The Young Folk's Sir. Walter Scott (Stirling-: Encas Mackay, 3s. lid.), has had .this difficulty in mind. He has picked out short stirring or humorous passages from fourteen of the novels, added a few pages from the poems and prefixed a brief life. Any boy or girl should find the little volume extremely readable and should be encouraged to go to the originals. Incidentally, a glance through the book will revive the older reader's memory of Waverley, The Antiquary, Quentin Durtecird, and the rest of those immortal tales.