_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." _ATHENAEUM:_ "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 _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 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. 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 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.'"