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."