_WORLD:_ "One of the drollest books written for years."
_DAILY NEWS:_ "Here is an imagination almost Dickens-like in its abundance."
_DAILY CHRONICLE:_ "Nothing could be more effective, nothing more persistently and ineffably droll."
_EVENING NEWS:_ "It is all rich comedy; it exudes humours on every page."
_LAND AND WATER:_ "Three hundred pages of charming and farcical light-heartedness."
_STAR:_ "A book of high spirits without pause."
MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI
_PALL MALL GAZETTE:_ "A vital and stimulating work, full of the joy of life and much of its sorrow; and Sylvia Scarlett herself is one of the few really great women in fiction--can indeed hold her own with Beatrix Esmond and Becky Sharp."
_PUNCH:_ "In several respects it is the best thing Mr. Mackenzie has yet done...."
_SCOTSMAN:_ "Amazing dexterity of workmanship--every figure is instinct with vitality."
_MORNING POST:_ "There is no question about the rightness and brightness and delightfulness of the adventures."
_LIVERPOOL COURIER:_ "Amazing inventiveness, Dickens-like prodigality and humour in characterization, youthful daring and clean candour."
LIVERPOOL POST:_ "His observation dissects humanity and entrances the student with its amazing cleverness and its astonishing penetration."
_ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS:_ "The inimitable exponent of joyous youth--a certain Cockney humour--as gaily witty as anything the world can show."
_BIRMINGHAM POST:_ "In sheer brilliance may well be thought to excel even its predecessor."
EVE in _THE TATLER:_ "Such a riot and rush of adventures and contrasts, such a breathless scramble, such rainbow emotions...."
MR. ST. JOHN ADCOCK in _THE SKETCH:_ "Nothing really happens."
MR. FRANK SWINNERTON in _THE BOOKMAN:_ "An exhibition of talent perversely employed."
MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI
_EVENING STANDARD:_ "That originality and depth of thought which we associate with his name. Often startling as are his ideas, they have a way of melting very quickly into and taking their place in the scheme of things, the world of truth and reality."
_THE SCOTSMAN:_ "The book is one which holds the reader in thrall."
_GLASGOW HERALD:_ "As fine as anything that even Mr. Mackenzie has accomplished."