The Popular Magazine

Popular Magazine, January 7, 1923 This issue contains eight short stories and one complete novel across diverse genres. "Quemado" by Marvin Wilhite presents a complete novel set in New Mexico involving romance. "Call the Doctor!" by Thomas McMorrow explores professional sympathy; H. de Vere Stacpoole's "The Papuan Paddle" involves a psychic demon. Bertram Atkey contributes Part II of the four-part serial "The Man with the Yellow Eyes," following two rogues attempting to catch a thief. James Francis Dwyer begins a series titled "The Extraordinary Affairs of the Texan Wasp." Additional stories include Ralph Stock's "What For?" (animal fable), J. Frank Davis's "Back Home" (Texas setting), William Hamilton Osborne's "What's Afoot?" (business and romance), Howard R. Marsh's "Big-Time Vendetta," Kenneth Latour's "The Vindication of Smith" (English police), Bertrand W. Sinclair's "The Heavy Hand" (crime story), and a poem by Henry Herbert Knibbs.