The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-06-03
PHILLIPS BEST NOVEL
In HEARST'S MAGAZINE
The Last Work of This Famou. Au-
thor Is Started Serially in the
June Issue,

The outstanding name among America,
novelists of the last fifteen years lie tina
Of David Graham Phillips The best O
his many novels is The Story Of Susal
Lenox." on which he spent six years. 70
writing it until he said he could no Longer
criticize 1t himself.
Mr.. Phillips is best known as the au
thor of "Old Wives for New" The Hun
cry Heart THE Plum Tree" Whit,
Magic" "Light-fingered Gentry" anc
THE Grain of Dust
Now. nearly five years after his death
| this. his best and favorite work, "Th,
Story Of Susan Lenox: Her Fall ant
Rise" is given to the public. 1t is a move
which will take first place In American
| literature.
THE Story of Susan Lenox" is tn,
| story of a girl who is left without none,
and forced TO fight the game of life By
| herself.
| unfortunate love affair. At the time OF
her birth it required all the energy ant
cunning of the young physician in at
tendance to bring life into her body, and
! from that day on, hers was an unequal
| but winning fight for physical existence
| and social recognition.
She reaches supreme happiness through
supreme misery. No Joy Is hers until 8
sorrow thrice as great is experienced
but she wins. because she refuses to ad
NIT defeat.
Our character" writes Phillips, 81,
| ourself: Is born with us. clings to US al
the flesh Of our bones; persists un.
changed until We die"
So it was with Suson Lenox. "A,
such times as complete despair threaten.
ed her future. her Unborn fortitude and
courage sustained her.
1t is a human story, brilliantly told
You can't afford to miss it any more
than you can afford to miss Shakespeare
or Dickens or Moliere or Balzac.
This remarkable story of the greatest
Of social problems has been secured by
Hearst's Magazine, which will publish 1,
serially. The first instalment will appear
In the June number this week.
DR.. Charles H. Parkhurst, tho IA
nous preacher. says of this story:
1t Is one Of those flctions that has a
meaning. the kind Of fiction that moral
and intelligent people have the right to
spend their time over or give their
thoughts to.
The heroine is depicted as an illegiti-
mate child. and the purpose of the f1c-
ton Is to show the blight that attaches to
Innocent illegitimacy. Illigetimacy, so
DIS TeldteS 10 the CnllO, IS always IN
nocent. and the writer deals with the
matter in a way to press home to the
reader the injustice of making a blame
less child a sharer In the guilt Of the
offending mother.
1T is not the purpose Of the narrative
to tighten the responsibility of the moth
er. nor to smooth over her crime by
phrases of sentimental apology. The
mother exists in the story only for the
purpose of giving birth to her Inflated
offspring. The story centers in the girl.
with only such other matter thrown in as
will serve to exhibit her as she is. and
to exhibit her career as It was made to
develop under the pressure of a condi-
ton for which she was not morally re-
sponsible, but which hypocritical society
took pleasure in charging up to her &C
count.
1T will be to misread this mastery
story not to derive from it the impress
sion that l myself experienced, and that
I have tried to set forth. 1t Is one of
those fictions that has a meaning, the
only kind Of fiction that moral and in
telligent people have any right to spend
their time over or give their thought to. -