MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI
SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF
SINISTER STREET
VOLUME ONE
ByCOMPTON MACKENZIE
TIMES:We do not wish it any shorter, for it is almost wholly delightful in itself."
STANDARD:The architecture of the book is superb."
LIVERPOOL COURIER:A clear and beautiful and enchanting idyll of adolescence."
ENGLISH REVIEW:A more faithful picture of public school life than anything we know in English fiction."
YORKSHIRE OBSERVER:Mr. Mackenzie's style is a thing unique among the present writers of English."
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN:As difficult a task as fiction could undertake; but Mr. Mackenzie's tact and insight have brought him through with brilliant success ... something we would not willingly have missed."
PUNCH:There are aspects of this book that I should find it difficult to overpraise; its marvellously minute observation, and its humour, and above all its haunting beauty both of ideas and words.... I am prepared to wager that Mr. Mackenzie's future is bound up with what is most considerable in English fiction."
Mr. F. M. Huefferin theOUTLOOK:"Possibly 'Sinister Street' is a work of real genius—one of those books that really exist otherwise than as the decorations of a publishing season.... One is too cautious—or with all the desire to be generous in the world, too ungenerous—to say anything like that, dogmatically, of a quite young writer. But I shouldn't wonder!"
MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI
SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF
SINISTER STREET
VOLUME TWO
ByCOMPTON MACKENZIE
NEW STATESMAN:A wonderful achievement."
MORNING POST:We never read anything which was so full of the action and atmosphere of a city of youth."
Mr. C. K. Shorterin theSPHERE:"The best modern novel of London life."
NEW WITNESS:Mr. Mackenzie's fame as a novelist rests to-day upon a secure foundation. Taking it altogether 'Sinister Street' is the biggest thing attempted and achieved in recent fiction."
PUNCH:The most complete and truest picture of modern Oxford that has been or is likely to be written ... has placed its creator definitely at the head of the younger school of fiction."
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN:There is not a page that is not in one way or another engaging, and many of them are profoundly moving."
NATION:It is a book of the greatest possible promise and interest ... puts Mr. Mackenzie in the front rank of contemporary novelists."
Mr. Hugh WalpoleinEVERYMAN:"I refuse to look at 'Sinister Street.'"
MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI
SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF
GUY AND PAULINE
By COMPTON MACKENZIE
GLASGOW HERALD:The charm of this exquisite book seems to play hide and seek with all efforts at description."
LIVERPOOL POST:The book lies beyond a critic's ungracious blame or his inept attempts at jolting praise."
COUNTRY LIFE:The most vivid and understanding portrayal of a sensitive girl's awakening to the responsibilities of womanhood that we have yet read."
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS:Nothing so alive and feminine as Pauline has been seen inside a book since Jenny Pearl."
SKETCH:People who love Mr. Mackenzie's art will love 'Guy and Pauline' with peculiar intimacy just because it is so purely an affair of exquisite taste."
BOSTON TRANSCRIPT:A story about love that is as fascinating as love itself."
LADIES' FIELD:The spangled dews and freshness of morning, the silver quiet of evening, the magic of moonlight, the song of bird, of wind and river, the fairy charm of all the varying seasons, are all his and he makes them ours; he is the prose Keats of our modern days."
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN:The future of the English novel is, to a quite considerable extent, in his hands."
ATHENÆUM:The permanency of a classic for all who value form in a chaotic era."
RUBBER-GROWER:A book to be avoided—wearisome and effete."
MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI
SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF
CARNIVAL
ByCOMPTON MACKENZIE
ATHENÆUM:Mr. Mackenzie's second novel amply fulfils the promise of his first.... Its first and great quality is originality. The originality of Mr. Mackenzie lies in his possession of an imagination and a vision of life that are as peculiarly his own as a voice or a laugh, and that reflect themselves in a style which is that of no other writer.... A prose full of beauty."
PUNCH:After reading a couple of pages I settled myself in my chair for a happy evening, and thenceforward the fascination of the book held me like a kind of enchantment. I despair, though, of being able to convey any idea of it in a few lines of criticism.... As for the style, I will only add that it gave me the same blissful feeling of security that one has in listening to a great musician.... In the meantime, having recorded my delight in it, I shall put 'Carnival' upon the small and by no means crowded shelf that I reserve for 'keeps.'"
OUTLOOK:In these days of muddled literary evaluations, it is a small thing to say of a novel that it is a great novel; but this we should say without hesitation of 'Carnival,' that not only is it marked out to be the reading success of its own season, but to be read afterwards as none but the best books are read."
OBSERVER:The heroic scale of Mr. Compton Mackenzie's conception and achievement sets a standard for him which one only applies to the 'great' among novelists."
ENGLISH REVIEW:An exquisite sense of beauty with a hunger for beautiful words to express it."
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS:The spirit of youth and the spirit of London."
NEW YORK TIMES:We hail Mr. Mackenzie as a man alive—who raises all things to a spiritual plane."
MR. C. K. Shorterin theSPHERE:"'Carnival' carried me from cover to cover on wings."
NEW AGE:We are more than sick of it."
MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI
SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF
THE PASSIONATE ELOPEMENT
ByCOMPTON MACKENZIE
TIMES:We are grateful to him for wringing our hearts with the 'tears and laughter of spent joys.'"
SPECTATOR:As an essay in literarybravurathe 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, compact of tinsel and gold is this little tragedy of a winter season in view of the pump room.... Through it all, the old tale has a dainty, fluttering, unusual, and very real beauty."
ENGLISH REVIEW:All his characters are real and warm with life. 'The Passionate Elopement' should be read slowly, and followed from the smiles and extravagance of the opening chapters through many sounding and poetical passages, to the thrilling end of the Love Chase. The quiet irony of the close leaves one smiling, but with the wiser smile of Horace Ripple who meditates on the colours of life."
WESTMINSTER GAZETTE:Mr. Mackenzie's book is a novel ofgenre, and with infinite care and obvious love of detail has he set himself to paint a literary picture in the manner of Hogarth. He is no imitator, he owes no thanks to any predecessor in the fashioning of his book.... Mr. Mackenzie recreates (the atmosphere) so admirably that it is no exaggeration to say that, thanks to his brilliant scene-painting, we shall gain an even more vivid appreciation of the work of his great forerunners. Lightly and vividly does Mr. Mackenzie sketch in his characters ... but they do not on that account lack personality. Each of them is definitely and faithfully drawn, with sensibility, sympathy, and humour."
MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI
SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF
KENSINGTON RHYMES
ByCOMPTON 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.'"
ATHENÆUM: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
THE TALES OFHENRY JAMES
The Turn of the Screw
The Aspern Papers
Daisy Miller
The Lesson of the Master
The Death of the Lion
The Reverberator
The Beast in the Jungle
The Coxon Fund
Glasses
The Pupil
The Altar of the Dead
The Figure in the Carpet
The Jolly Corner
In the Cage
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