Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1919 — FOREWORD. [ARTICLE]

FOREWORD.

“The Thirteenth Commandment” is an American story written by an American for Americans. It is, according to a famous English critic, “American to the bone And to the marrow of the bone.” It deals with that eternal conflict between finance and romance. It tells the story of what one lovable, modern American girl did when she discovered how often the checkbook’s groan drowns the lovfe song. In this story Rupert Hughes is at his best, and that best cannot be surpassed by any American author of the present day. If you start “The Thirteenth Commandment” you will finish it, and when you have finished it you will he glad that you started it