Evening star., 1911-01-24
HAS WRITTEN MANY NOVELS.
David Graham Phillips Among Best
Known Of American Authors.

David Graham Phillips has achieved ma
tfonal distinction as the author of nine-
teen published novels and many magazine
articles, including one series called Tine
Treason of the Senate" which drew Pres
tdent Roosevelt to the defense OF the Sem
ate and caused his application of the
term undertaking" to that style of
writing.
Less than two weeks ago Mr.. Phillips
went to his publishers. D. Appleton Il
Co.. with the completed manuscript of q
new novel as yet unnamed. They said
yesterday that this latest work was diff
ferent from anything he had yet done, in
asmuch as 1t was extraordinarily long and
would probably require two volumes for
publication. 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-one, a number which
puts him in the front rank of young
American authors in point OF productivity.
Story Made Him Famous.
With the publication of 1.-THE Second
Generation In 1907 Mr.. Phillips came
into his own as a novelist. He had pre-
viously printed eleven novels. but this one
crystallized the scattered appreciation Of
his work and his voice began to be hailed
by the critics as a new one in American
literature. They recognized that he was
q successful portrayer Of big movements
in American life, that he had forsaken
the paths that could be called well worn.
lie wrote out of the experience that his
years as a reporter and newspaper writer
had given him. He took pains to say that
ne did not believe I'm the literary ideals of
the period when the pages OF Irving and
Cooper correctly mirrored the daily do
ings, the aspirations, the virtues, the sins
If they had sins in those days-of their
contemporaries.
He was for forsakng these ideals and
not continuing 10 paint things in terms
of the little red schoolhouse."
Mr.. Phillips was born at Madison, Ind.
forty-three years ago. He attended DE
Pauw University, going from there to
Princeton, where he was graduated with
a bachelors degree in 1887 He imme-
diately went into the newspaper field, GO
ing to New York after a short experience
on the Cincinnati Enquirer, and Joining
the stan of the New York Sun.
Experience as a Reporter.
Charles Edward Russell told recently
in the Book News Monthly Of one OF his
first assignments, about fifteen years
ago. when a civil war had broken out in
the mountain region OF east Tennessee
on the attempt of great mining COM
pany to use convict labor. He told of
the feelings among the combatants and
the reporters already present when the
evening train deposited at the station a
tail. languid looking young man in an
elegant suit of white fiannels, whose
chief concern in life seemed to be that
his trunk had been lost and with IL his
pajamaS.
1t is said that his feliow-reporters
looked forward TO the sight of his first
work with curiosity and hopeful expecta-
r~1I xtxnrA
was astonishrnent. but no mirth. 1t then
appeared that this yong man, going
quietly about. apparently worried only
about lost pajamas, had seen everybody
and noted every salient fact and detail.
Then with skill and compelling power
he had laid all the underlying springs
and causes of action clear. analysed
weighed and humaniZed the elements OF
the conflict so that. instead OF thing
temporary and insignificant, II was
shown truly as something big and vital.
This was David Graham Phillips. re-
porter and in it can be seen the touches
that later made the novelist.
Worlds London Correspondent.
After leaving the Sun Mr.. Phillips wen
to the New York World to be for a tim.
its London correspondent and afterwan
editorial writer. II he did nothing els,
there he acquired a habit of writing tina
lasted into his novelistic days. for n,
was the night editorial writer and be
came used to doing most of his worI
after 0 o'clock. Most of the work O,
of 10 at night and or In the morning
He would dine at and soon after retir,
to his studio on East 10Th street to spen,
the rest of the night there at work. H
tContInued on Tenth PasNl