Sinister Street, vol. 1

SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF OTHER BOOKS BY COMPTON MACKENZIE
SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF Kensington Rhymes By COMPTON 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.”