12 OCTOBER 1895, Page 36

In the series of "Illustrated Standard Novels" (Macmillan and Co.),

we have Captain Marryat's Peter Simple. It is illus- trated by Mr. J. Ayton Symington, and Mr. David Hannay con- tributes an introduction in which, while observing that there is " more good fun in Mr. Midshipman Easy " (the comic scenes in this story certainly leave an indelible impression), he maintains that Peter Simple is on the whole the author's best book. We can scarcely agree, but if it is not the best, it is very near it. Do boys, we wonder, read Marryat P—In Messrs. Archibald Con- stable and Co.'s reprint of the Waverley Novels, with the -author's notes, we have Vols. XIV. and XV., The Legend of Montrose and The Bride of Lammermoor.