His Helpmate. By Frank Barrett. (Ward and Downey.)—The best-drawn character
in this story is " Paul Potter Goddard," a capital specimen of the Bohemian artist,—of the sham sort, that is to say, for he has not much more art about him than hie velvet jacket daubed with paint. Goddard has two daughters, one of them a beauty, the other of the keeping-of.a.honse.together type. It is with the beauty's fortune that we are chiefly concerned. With these are mixed up a certain unscrupulous financier, and a still more unscrupulous editor of a " society " paper. The financier, Motley by name, is a puzzle, and to the last we hardly know what to think of him. The editor is an undoubted scoundrel. Out of these materials, with the beauty and the husband as heroine and hero, and the teller of the story for chorus, we get a sufficiently readable book.
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