OUR STREETCompton Mackenzie Donbleday, Doran.
In the course of his not too nostalgic childhood reminiscences Author Mackenzie takes his readers the length of a Victorian London street, introduces them to as engaging a troupe of well-to-do householders as ever went to market to buy fat pigs. Memories of their sooty black houses, architecturally linear and flat, are prettily three-dimensionalized by little whirlwinds of domestic perturbations spiralling, like smoke from the chimney-pots, above every roof.
To No. 9, to stay with his Aunts Adelaide and Emily, small Compton Mackenzie first came in...
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