“Is a brave, amusing, exciting story, but it is not right ‘Q.’ Seldom does a story by ‘Q’ lose interest when you know the plot. We regret that ‘Poison island’ does.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 85. Mr. 15, ’07. 530w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 550w. |
“In the end Mr. Quiller-Couch springs some remarkable surprises on his reader, and the closing incidents are even so bizarre and unnatural that the reader suspects that the author is laughing in his sleeve at the credulity of romance-lovers.”
| − | Outlook. 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w. |
“There is a lack of spontaneity about it that renders it at times almost tedious.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 370. Mr. 23, ’07. 200w. |
“If he has not the highest creative faculty, he has at least the power of lending freshness and vitality to time-worn and even hackneyed themes by the agility of his invention and the picturesqueness of his mise-en-scene.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 624. Ap. 20, ’07. 1250w. |
Couch, A. T: Quiller-. Sir John Constantine. †$1.50. Scribner.
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