UPTON SINCLAIR differs from Sinclair Lewis only in this respect that he fg sill more unpopular with the American public than the author of "Babbitt." The Nobel prize has made Sinclair Lewis acceptable in high foclety, but the man who, when the bookshops in Boston were forced to ban his "Oil," stood in the streets selling his own work and who was the organizer of the historical parade in front of the offices of young Rockefeller during the mining strike in Colorado, will, Tam afraid, never be accepted in American drawing-rooms, even although he stands a fair chance how. of becoming democratic candidate for the Governorship of the State of California, has never withheld his unbrid~ for me to do so in America, because led criticism of the faults of his of the scandalous publicity they country, and the Yankee who in his threatened to make out of it. Fre-own land. can afford to ignore derik Van Eeden offered me shelter "Mountain City" can, as a tourist in Europe, hardly have failed Holland and there T obtained my observe how a" world-wide journal ike the late "Vossische Zeitung", Sick With Misery dished up this crude depiction of the modern American hunt for money as have always paid the highest tribute to the kindest, friendliest serial story under the eloquent title "The Way Dollars Are Made." people in the world; ' the Dutch!
T met Upton Sinclair for the first When I arrived in their midst, sick time at a literary tea party at the with misery and unhappiness, they Waldorf Astoria Hotel, on the day did not ferret out my troubles, even hig atest novel was' published, a those who in no way agreed with few days later at the flat of his my principles, received me into their publisher on the highest floor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and from there hho took me to a small artistic restaurant somewhere in a back street, Weren't the doors in America opened to you during the War?"
"Oil" has re-established the fame of the creator of "Jungle," "Boston" Isa glowing but. historically" not quite acceptable defence of Sacco and Vanzetti against American party justice". In "Upton Sinclai sent William Fox" and Holiday", the ever young writer describes again in. bright colourful speech coupled with deep psycholoical insight the ins and outs of modern American money manufac:
The Man Again and again Sinclair depicts with master strokes the images of materialistic "America, in the same way as Cooper, was a literary topograph depicting the epoch of the Redskin.
It was an enjoyable, nay beautiful evening I spent with this man whose gently undertaking eyes form such strange contrast to the strong-willed mouth under the proudly curved nose.
Hitless, his collar turned up in the Hizzling rain he walked to the Iuxur= cus hotel apportments, where that evening a reception was to be given in his. honour.
'A simple man, walking through the labyrinth of "the "skyscrapers towering heavenwards. When the steel he forbed it amusement where one Is pervaded not only by Wilson and_In'my cal-to-arms.to wonders have been decayed. by ihe In my telegram to President girders and the granite of these neat tree it would stilt be 954 sud sll be ¥mmerg6 Kind of china a sense of cosy comfort but of
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