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NEfV NOVEL WORLD’S END Dragon’s Teeth. By Upton Sinclair. T. Werner Laurie Ltd. 624 pp. (10/6 net.) This third volume in the “World’s End” series is the best of the three, which means that it is very good indeed. In the other two, Mr Sinclair used his Lanny Budd as a sort of student-witness of the increasing discord and folly of the years 1918-1929. The effect was partly didactic, partly Kaleidoscopic. Here, it is dramatically i intensified. Lanny is still a world observer. From the Wall street crash of 1929 to the rise of Nazi power, he sees every significant portent, every movement in the world’s whirl to calamity. But he has a much more active part to P|ay, and in playing it becomes significant himself. This is in his struggle with the Nazi leaders—realistically the lives of Jewish friends ifo their clutches.