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Austin, Louis Frederic. Points of view; ed, with prefatory note by Clarence Rook. **$1.50. Lane.
Essays selected from the author’s contributions to London newspapers compose this volume. Such subjects are treated as Sir Henry Irving, America at Oxford, Men and modes. Logic for women. Motor cars and nervous systems, A famine in books, etc. “Mr. Rook’s prefatory note contains an impressive idea of Mr. Austin’s strenuous life. It is, indeed, ironical that a man should be strenuous in chatting with his pen; but it is also tragic.” (Ath.)