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Austin, Alfred (Lamia, pseud.). Door of humility. *$1.50. Macmillan.
A poem of 57 cantos in which a poet “is perplexed in youth with some obvious theological doubts, and his lady refuses him till he comes to a better frame of mind. He straightway proceeds upon a kind of grand tour, which gives him the opportunity to describe elaborately Switzerland, Rome, Greece, and other places. After much trite metaphysical speculation he arrives at a sort of solution, and returns home.... Humility, the poem, teaches, is the only gateway to truth.” (Spec.)
“Mr. Austin has read his ‘In memoriam’ too lovingly, and, in his poem, at least, has not been able to rid himself of the domination of the great mind and to stand on his own feet. This result is rendered the more conspicuous and deplorable by the thick sowing of the text with phrases that can only be described as journalistic.”
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