+ + Lond. Times. 5: 1. Ja. 5, ’06. 3580w. + + – Nation. 82: 492. Je. 14, ’06. 2110w.
“His book has a general value in so far as it treats of the politics of Great Britain during a brief period active in partisan struggles if not notable for great achievements; for it gives us an inside view of the strange way in which a nation is governed.” Joseph O’Connor.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 125. Mr. 3. ’06. 3870w.
“Considering everything Mr. Churchill is to be felicitated on the zeal, tact, and ability with which he has executed his task.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ + – Outlook. 83: 905. Ag. 18, ’06. 1790w.
“His manifest care and wish—and he succeeds in both—are to present his father as he lived, fought, worked among his fellows.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 283. Mr. 3, ’06. 800w. R. of Rs. 33: 380. Mr. ’06. 280w.
“The style of the narrative is easy and clear, occasionally graceful and pathetic. There is a due sense of perspective.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 18. Ja. 6, ’06. 3080w.
“The book has its faults,—faults of arrangement, of prolixity and repetition, of occasional irrelevance; and the writer has been tempted unconsciously to turn the narrative of certain incidents in his father’s life into a kind of apology for certain incidents in his own. Mr. Churchill tells the story of his father’s private life with singular tact and good taste, and he has striven to make the tale of his public life an adequate history of an epoch in English politics.”