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.'"
SPECTATOR:
As an essay in literary bravura the book is quite remarkable."
COUNTRY LIFE:
In the kindliness, the humour and the gentleness of the treatment, it comes as near to Thackeray, as any man has come since Thackeray."
DAILY CHRONICLE:
Thanks for a rare entertainment! And, if the writing of your story pleased you as much as the reading of it has pleased us, congratulations too."