A Book for Leisure Hours.

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume 01, Issue 4, 1 October 1908, Page 117

A Book for Leisure Hours.

" Mr. Crewe's Career/'— This is the latest book by Winston Churchill, is written in the same style as " Coniston," but is on the whole a more pleasing book. Austin Vane, the hero, is the son of a lawyer and politician, whose rather dubious means to keep a control of local politics, and so preserve unfair privileges to a local railway company, cannot be reconciled with the fine ideas of honour of his son. The latter is a fine and interesting character. The heroine is Victoria Flint, the daughter of the chief director of the railroad company, and is a charming personality, unspoilt by her surroundings. Mr. Crewe is very cleverly drawn. His supreme self-satisfaction and importance is proof against all rebuffs or failures, in fact failure is a word he does not consider can properly apply to him. His proposal to Victoria Flint is a most amusing example of consummate conceit. The reader would become rather tired of the schemes of American provincial politicians, if it were not that the keen humour in the book is so well sustained, and the characters such living presentments of their various types. I do not think, however, that the book, though well worth reading, would ever win its author such popularity as " Richard Carvel " or " The Crisis."