SOURCE: “Divertissements,” in Nation, Vol. 116, January 31, 1923, p. 124.

In the following derogatory review of The Seven Ages of Woman, Krutch asserts that Mackenzie has “no philosophy to give significance to his work and no depths in himself to be moved, for he inhabits an essentially trivial world.”

Of these three divertissements The Enchanted April is the best because it is the most frankly what it is, and The Seven Ages of Woman the most disappointing because it was so evidently intended to be something else, while Mr. Bennett's Lilian falls somewhere between the two. The latter little tale of a beautiful typist who breaks the seventh commandment without, quite properly, receiving the full measure of retribution which would conventionally be supposed her due, is quite up to the minute in atmosphere and phrase, and it is by no means heavily burdened by its weight of one of those bits...