Susan Lenox Her Rise and Fall

I do not know what the public may think of Susan Lenox. I scarcely know what I think.

It is a terrible book -- terrible and true and beautiful.

Under the depths there are unspeakable things that writhe. His plumb-line touches them and they squirm. He bends his head from the clouds to do it. Is it worth doing? I don't know. But this I do know -- that within the range of all fiction of all lands and of all times no character has so overwhelmed me as the character of Susan Lenox.

In the presence of his last work, so overwhelming, so stupendous, we lesser men are left at a loss. Its magnitude demands the perspective that time only can lend it.

-- Robert W. Chambers