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."