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.”
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.’”