30 JULY 1892, page 20

Recent Novels.* We Think We Must Ere This Have Made

the remark that Mr. Marion Crawford is the only living novelist who rivals Mrs. Oliphant in versatility of invention and treatment. If so, our excuse for repeating ourselves......

Books.

DR. ARBUTHNOT.* THE author of John Bull has been styled by Thackeray, "one of the wisest, wittiest, most accomplished, gentlest of man- kind ; " and the companions of Arbuthnot......