The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-25
CAREER OF PHILLIPS
Hna Achieved Fame ms Author of Nine

David Graham Phillips had achieved
national distinction rs the author OF
nineteen published novels and many
magazine articles, including one series
called The Treason of the Senatc.''
which drew President Roosevelt to the
defense OF the Senate and caused his
application of the term muck ra king
10 that style Of writing
Less than two weeks ago Mr. Phillips
went TO his publishers D. Appleton &
Co., with the completed manuscript
of new novel. as yet unnamed They
said yesterday that this latest work
was different from anything he had yet
done. inasmuch as It was extraordinarily
long and would probably require two
volumes for publica ton. Another
volume from his pen IS In their hands
now. and is TO be brought out in April
This will bring his list OF novels up
to twenty-tone, number which puts
him in the front rank OF young Amer
lean authors In point Of producttyity
With the publication OF "rhc Second
Generation in 1907. Mr.. Philips came
into his own as a novelist. Hc had
previously printed eleven novels. but
this one crystallized the scattered nD-
probation OF his work. and his voice
I began to be hailed by the critics ne a
Z new one in American literature. They
recognized that he was successful
"a
lean life, that he had forsaken the
paths that could be called we'll worn.
lie wrote out OF the experience that
MS years as reporter and newspaper
writer had given him. He took pains
10 say that he did not believe In the
literary ideals cf the period when the
pages OF Irving and Cooper correctly
nirrorcd The daily doings the aspira-
lions the virtues, thc sins--if they had
sins in those days--of their conteln-
poraries."
iic WIS for forsaking these ideals
and not continuing to paint things IN
terms of the little red schoolhouse.'
air. Phillips WAS born at Madison,
Ind. for.E-threc years ago. He at
tended De PAW University, going from
there 10 Princeton. where he was grad
uaicd with bachelors degree in 1887.
Taper field, coming 10 New York after
= short experience OH the Cincinnati
Itnnuircr and Joining the staff OF the
Now York sun
il; The Book News Monthly OF one of
hiH nrsL assignments, about fifteen
years aso. when civil war hid broken
nui In the mountain region OF East
tennessee. on the attempt Of great
mining company to use convict labor
lie lold q the feelings among the
l'rtEent wien the evening train de-
Yos(.ed ri me station Il tall, languid
IiookihE yonns man III an elegant suit
lin life seemed 10 be that his trunk
lad been lost. and with il his pajamas.
II Is said that his fellow reporters
WORK with curiosity and hopeful ex-
tpcctatloDs OF Inirth. When 1t arrived
iheIe wes establishment, but no mirth.
III then appeared that this young man
aoing quietly about, apparently wor-
'ted only about lost pajamas. had seen
isyerybody and noted every salient fact
iHeilIn,e power ne had laid all the un-
hcriying springs and causes OF action
n!e1r. analysed weighed and human
1hat instead OF a thing temporary
and nsignincant It was shown truly
AS some thing big and vital.
This vac, David Graham Phillips. re-
touches that later made the novelist
After leaving the Sin. Mr. Phillips
went TO The World 70 be for 4 time
lle London correspondents. and after
1rard editorial writer. II he did moth
ing else there he ACQUIRED a habit OF
writing that lasted into his novelistic
aays for he was the night editorial
writer and became used TO doing mos
or his work after . o'clock.
Most Of the work OH his novels was
.oCne between the honrs Of 10 at night
e eI or in the morning. He would
f!udio IN East Nineteenth street 70
spend the rest OF the night there At
WORK. fiG sometimes accomplished as
pruch a.. 5000 or 1900 words or the
Yrs: draft Of a novel in a night
The last novel he published was call
.Gd THE husbands story and was put
out iatc iaSt year Il attracted con-
siderable attention. principally because
ii said uncomplmentary things about
American women. He accused them IN
The book OF being mainly social Climb
era and inca Bile Of entering fuzzy into
the better part OF their hushnllds's
Ives In It he asks the question. rs
tHere any Inc OF serious endeavor In
ing and helpful and companionablc 10
man." And the effect OF the work
~ 10 answer the question IN the mega
i've. The book was taken up and dis
cursed by Wonan's Societies every
where. and was even made Il topic at
m annual convention or the New York
CITY Federation OF Moments Clubs
@ Tho novelist had the distinction Of
provoking an impassioncd criticism