The Blue Book Magazine, August 1917

# Blue Book Magazine, August 1917

This issue of Blue Book Magazine features two serialized novels and eight short stories. Zane Grey's "The Roaring U. P. Trail," described as his finest Western novel, continues with exciting chapters about the building of the Union Pacific railroad. Henry M. Neely's "Alias Mrs. Blair Coulter" concludes in this installment.

Short fiction includes Frederick R. Bechdolt's "The Wise Old Guy," concerning a warden's efforts to save a condemned young prisoner named Delaney from execution; Albert Payson Terhune's "Once a Mason—," about a man keeping his Masonic membership secret from his wife; and Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan Rescues the Moon," featuring the jungle-raised protagonist. Other stories cover a real-estate swindle, diplomatic intrigue in Bavaria, a baseball player's intelligence, Southwestern frontier life, disease-germ theft, boys' adventures, and a Solomon Island cannibal voyage. W. Carey Wonderly provides the novelette "The Big Town," following a small-town girl entering Bohemian society in New York.