+ + – Lit. D. 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 460w. Lit. D. 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 300w. Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
“He transcribes rather than creates, and his effects are got by plodding equably ahead with his narrative rather than by any flash of inspiration.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 249. Jl. 13, ’06. 650w.
“‘Coniston’ would have been a good novel if it had begun in the middle.”
+ – Nation. 83: 38. Jl. 12, ’06. 540w.
“‘Coniston’ can hardly fail to give its readers food for thought. Well will it be for our government if these readers are many, and if they straightway proceed to run according to the reading.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 1140w.
“‘Coniston’ is so great an advance on ‘The crisis’ and ‘The crossing’ in construction, condensation, and artistic feeling that it cannot fail to appeal to a new group of readers, while its human duality will hold those who have already accepted Mr. Churchill as a born storyteller.”
+ + Outlook 83: 100. Je. 30, ’06. 240w. + + Outlook. 84: 707. N. 24, ’06. 130w.
“But Mr. Churchill does not merely preach a sermon on civic righteousness. ‘Coniston’ is a love story, and a capital one, of perhaps a deeper motive than any of the earlier romances from Mr. Churchill’s pen.”