The Blue Book Magazine, February 1915

Blue Book Magazine, February 1915

This issue features three serialized novels and a complete book-length novel alongside fifteen short stories. H. Rider Haggard's The Ivory Child opens the first installment of his adventure novel, depicting an unnamed protagonist's visit to Lord Ragnall's English castle. The narrative establishes Lord Ragnall as an accomplished gentleman—scholar, athlete, soldier, and poet—while the protagonist demonstrates superior marksmanship with a rifle, outperforming Ragnall at wood-pigeon shooting. William Farquhar Payson continues Love Letters of a Divorced Couple, presenting witty correspondence between Sybil and Pinkie involving romantic encounters. William J. Burns and Isabel Ostrander's The Crevice reaches its fifth installment in a conspiracy thriller. H. Bedford-Jones provides The Wilderness Trail, a romance set during Daniel Boone's Kentucky frontier era. Short stories include Albert Payson Terhune's economically-themed tale, E. Phillips Oppenheim's An Innocent Abroad, and works by George Hibbard, Ellis Parker Butler, and others addressing romance, domestic life, and character transformation.