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

CARNIVAL

_By_ COMPTON MACKENZIE

_ATHENAEUM_:

"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
leading 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. SHORTER in the SPHERE_:

"'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

SINISTER STREET

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

CARNIVAL

THE PASSIONATE ELOPEMENT

KENSINGTON RHYMES

For some press opinions, see preceding pages

SINISTER STREET: VOLUME II

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