16 NOVEMBER 1889, Page 42

The Waverley Proverbial Birthday - Book (Remington and Co.) is a collection

of the "Proverbs and other Wise Sayings to be found in the Waverley Novels," collected by Bishop Wordsworth of St. Andrews. It is curious to see how Scott repeated himself in these quotations, and also to notice how they are distributed among his various novels. None appears to furnish so many as "Rob Roy," which supplies, we should guess, about a seventh of the whole.