"I shouldn't be surprized to see Sternbergia Lutea this year," he observed. "We have had a lot of sun." "Have we?" Pauline sighed. "Oh, yes, a great deal of sun." Her father of course would never speak of that broken engagement, and already she had made her mother promise never to speak of it again. Deep to her inmost heart only these familiar vales and streams and green meadows would speak of it for the rest of her life. THE END _Capri_ _December, 1914--April, 1915_ PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY WM. BRENDON AND SON, LTD. PLYMOUTH SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF SINISTER STREET _By_ COMPTON MACKENZIE _PUNCH:_ "I shall not easily forget the delightful revelation of a new power that was given me by Mr. Compton Mackenzie's 'Carnival.' 'Sinister Street' confirms and heightens my estimate of its author.... As a study of the education of character it is already a masterpiece.... It is not my habit lightly to prophesy fame; but after these two books I am prepared to wager that Mr. Mackenzie's future is bound up with what is most considerable in English fiction." _EVENING STANDARD:_ "Not without complacency we remember that, in noticing 'Carnival,' we suggested that Mr. Mackenzie's next novel would mark a critical stage in his career. We are complacent because the author has largely fulfilled the promise of that arresting novel. He has passed the critical stage, and whatever happens now nothing can deprive him of the honour of being the author of 'Sinister Street.'" _MORNING POST:_ "'Sinister Street' has indeed interested us profoundly, as the intimate study of the infancy and boyhood of a singularly attractive lad.... Its picture of West Kensington life, and its attempt to describe the atmosphere of the Public School which dominates the social life of West Kensington are really remarkable." _TIMES:_ "We do not wish it any shorter, for it is almost wholly delightful in itself." _STANDARD:_ "In his pages there is not one which even a reviewer could wish to skip.... The architecture of the book is superb." _DAILY EXPRESS:_ "'Sinister Street' is a fine novel, an achievement far removed from the average easy banality." _MANCHESTER GUARDIAN:_ "As difficult a task as fiction could undertake; but Mr. Mackenzie's tact and insight and comprehension have brought him through with brilliant success.... Something we would not willingly have missed." MARTIN SECKER, NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET, ADELPHI SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF CARNIVAL _By_ COMPTON MACKENZIE _ATHENÆUM:_