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DOUBLE-VOICED Mammouavt. By Upton Sinclair. 'l'. Werner Laurie. 384 pp. (7s 0:1 net.) It may not be beyond the power of wise and inscrutable Providence to reconstruct Mr Sinclair into a different sort of person; but with every year and "--cry new book Mr Sinclair seems more and more himself; that is to say, an industrious lover and hater of talented booth-bawler and dignified fellow creature by turns in the Street of the Prophets. Perhaps (we idon't deserve any better and he is our necessary gadfly. ThH year in this book the loving Mr Sinclair wants to say that art is the flower of lite I and that good art (including good literature) requires good conditions for its proper expression, and perfect art perfect conditions; but this is how the othc" Mr Sinclair says it: Mammonart studies the artists from a point of view entirely new; asking how they get their living, and what they do for it; turning their pockets inside out, seeing what is in them and where it comes from. . . . Mammonart asserts that mankind is to-day under the spell of utterly false conceptions of what art is and should be . . . challenges the great ones now honoured by critical authority . . . puts to painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, dramatists, and composers the question: Who owns you and why? . . . Mammonart is a history of culture and also a battle-cry. And so on, and so on.