_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. HUEFFER in the _OUTLOOK:_ "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 _By_ COMPTON 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. SHORTER in the _SPHERE:_ "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 WALPOLE in _EVERYMAN:_ "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."