The Popular Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 3

Museum Catalog Note *The Popular Magazine*, February 15, 1914, issue. Features eight short stories and two serial installments by various authors. "Ambassadors to Albania" by Francis Whitlock opens the issue—a complete novel wherein Jabez Cooper, an entrepreneurial businessman who has commercialized Romance, dispatches one of his agents to the Balkans seeking a dozen pink lizards that sing. Additional stories include "The Mating Impulse" (Edwin Balmer), "The Fall of the Play" (Peter B. Kyne), and "Cephas the Paladin" (Albert Payson Terhune), which concerns making a hero of a pig. "The Maid of Paranito Mine" by W. L. George describes a young mining engineer prospecting a fabulously rich mine in Mexico. Serial stories include "When the Red Hills Threaten" (Vingie E. Roe), concerning two characters discovering life's meaning after fighting death together, and "The Fight on Standing Stone" (Francis Lynde), depicting Wall Street manipulations affecting railroad construction in the mountains.