3 NOVEMBER 1894, Page 13

With the Help of the Angels. By Wilfrid Woollam. (Ward

and Downey.)—This story is written with considerable cleverness. The dialogue not unfrequently sparkles, and there are now and then shrewd observations of nature. The plot is of a common- place kind. A boy is befriended by a wandering artist of dubious fortunes and not irreproachable character, and is ultimately discovered to be of gentle birth. We doubt whether "Wilfrid Woollam " knows very much about boys. Never surely did a boy of ten kiss and hug his friends with the frequency with which Tom indulges in these tokens of affection.