The Popular Magazine, July 23, 1915

THE PRODIGAL AND OTHER TALES This issue of *Popular Magazine* (Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, 1916) features diverse stories across business and adventure genres. The lead offering is W.B.M. Ferguson's complete novel *The Prodigal*, concerning a ruined heir who unexpectedly inherits a failing baseball club and must determine its fate. W. Douglas Newton contributes *The Coup*, a wartime aviation story in which an aviator's irritation at his passenger's chart-marking work exceeds his concern over bursting shrapnel. Holworthy Hall's *McHenry and Dillingham: Angels* depicts theatrical promotion requiring quick wits from a character named "Pepper." Earl Derr Biggers and Robert Welles Ritchie offer Part II of *Inside the Lines*, a three-part serialization of a successful stage play. Additional short stories address diverse professions: H.C. Witwer's *In This Corner* covers prize fighting; George Washington Ogden's *The Probation of P.D.* follows an agricultural graduate among Western sheep-herders; and entries by Frederick Niven, Raymond S. Spears, and George Woodruff Johnston explore mystery, Wall Street speculation, and jewel theft respectively.