H. L. MENCKEN on “The Goslings”: “I’d be recreant to my vows at ordination if I did not commend his volume unqualifiedly as excellent reading. It is, in fact, one of the most interesting books I have got through for months. It presents a vast mass of scandalous and amusing facts, it sorts them out very deftly, and it is very well written. Why he has had to publish it himself I can’t make out. Are all the regular publishers idiots?”
The Los Angeles “Times” on “The Goslings”: “As to the truth of the charges, we have only the author’s word for it.... One would think that if one-half of the charges are true something should be done about it; on the other hand, if they are not true, something should be done to suppress the book.”
From Floyd Dell: “Written with a magnificent and tragic candor.”
“The Goslings,” 464 pages; cloth $2, paper $1
UPTON SINCLAIR, Pasadena, California
THE GOOSE-STEP
A Study of American Education
By Upton Sinclair
Who owns the colleges, and why?