The Popular Magazine, January 7, 1925

This issue of *Popular* magazine (January 7, 1925) contains nine short stories and two serials across adventure, romance, and crime fiction genres. The featured serial is Henry Herbert Knibbs' "Temescal," a five-part Southwest adventure romance beginning in this issue. The novelettes include Percival Wilde's "The Fifty-Third Card," about card expert Bill Parmelee on a dangerous mission, and Laurie York Erskine's "The Man with the Brown Eyes," a Western adventure-romance. Short stories span various types: Holman Day's "When 'Temperament' Came to Baldknob" concerns film culture's intrusion into rural life; Ralph D. Paine's "King Neptune Takes Command" presents traditional seafaring action; Robert H. Rohde's "The Diamond of the Diplomats" features detective character Macumber. Frank H. Spearman's "Selwood of Sleepy Cat" concludes its four-part serial. Additional stories include Charles Somerville's prize-fighting tale "Noblesse Oblige" and Eugene Jones' burglary story "Obediah's Money."