Compton Mackenzie Critical Essay | Critical Review by Edward E. Hale

Critical Review by Edward E. Hale

SOURCE: “Recent Fiction,” in Dial, Vol. 60, No. 711 February 3, 1916, pp. 122-25.

In the following favorable review of Plashers Mead, [published as Guy and Pauline, Hale asserts that the story is “so entirely fused in the imagination that it makes its impression definitely and surely as the writer would wish.”]

The name Plashers Mead will not mean much to many, but some will recall that, at a certain season, Michael Fane went into the country with Guy Hazlewood, who wanted to find a place where he might devote himself to poetry. They found a place called Plashers Mead. Here Guy established himself, and here Michael came later and wrote something on the window with Guy's diamond pencil, and then looking out of the window saw Guy in a canoe with a very charming girl like a wild rose or a fairy child. It was later still while Michael...
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