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SINISTER STREET


BY

COMPTON MACKENZIE

SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF OTHER BOOKS BY COMPTON MACKENZIE


SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF

Kensington Rhymes

_By_ COMPTON MACKENZIE

_SATURDAY REVIEW:_

     "These are particularly jolly rhymes, that any really good sort of
     a chap, say a fellow of about ten would like. Mr. J. R. Monsell's
     pictures are exceptionally jolly too.... If we may judge by
     ourselves, not only the children, but the grown-ups of the family
     will be enchanted by this quite delightful and really first-rate
     book."

_DAILY MAIL:_

     "Among the picture-books of the season, pride of place must go to
     Mr. Compton Mackenzie's 'Kensington Rhymes.' They are full of quiet
     humour and delicate insight into the child-mind."

_OBSERVER:_

     "Far the best rhymes of the year are 'Kensington Rhymes,' by
     Compton Mackenzie, almost the best things of the kind since the
     'Child's Garden of Verse.'"

_ATHENAEUM:_

     "Will please children of all ages, and also contains much that will
     not be read without a sympathetic smile by grown-ups possessed of a
     sense of humour."

_TIMES:_

     "The real gift of child poetry, sometimes almost with a
     Stevensonian ring."

_OUTLOOK:_

     "What Henley did for older Londoners, Mr. Compton Mackenzie and Mr.
     Monsell have done for the younger generation."

_STANDARD:_

     "Our hearts go out first to Mr. Compton Mackenzie's 'Kensington
     Rhymes.'"

_SUNDAY TIMES:_

     "Full of whimsical observation and genuine insight, 'Kensington
     Rhymes' by Compton Mackenzie are certainly entertaining."

_EVENING STANDARD:_

     "Something of the charm of Christina Rossetti's."

_VOTES FOR WOMEN:_

     "They breathe the very conventional and stuffy air of
     Kensington.... We are bound to say that the London child we tried
     it on liked the book."


MARTIN SECKER, NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET, ADELPHI


SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF

The Passionate Elopement

_By_ COMPTON MACKENZIE


_TIMES:_

     "We are grateful to him for wringing our hearts with the 'tears and
     laughter of spent joys.'"

_SPECTATOR:_

     "As an essay in literary bravura the book is quite remarkable."

_COUNTRY LIFE:_

     "In the kindliness, the humour and the gentleness of the treatment,
     it comes as near to Thackeray, as any man has come since
     Thackeray."

_DAILY CHRONICLE:_

     "Thanks for a rare entertainment! And, if the writing of your story
     pleased you as much as the reading of it has pleased us,
     congratulations too."

_GLOBE:_

     "A little tenderness, a fragrant aroma of melancholy laid away in
     lavender, a hint of cynicism, an airy philosophy--and so a wholly
     piquant, subtly aromatic dish, a rosy apple stuck with cloves."

_GLASGOW NEWS:_

     "Fresh and faded, mocking yet passionate,