The Illustrated Blue Book Magazine, February 1928

# Catalog Note: The Blue Book Magazine, February 1928

This issue features two serials and multiple short stories by established and emerging writers. Harold Titus's "The Tough Nut" depicts lively events in a timber-town community during an Armistice Day celebration, with contests including log-birling competitions. Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan serial continues. Short stories include Bertram Atkey's "A Man of Ambition" (about the rogue Captain Cormorant); Jay Lucas's "The Right Cross-Counter" (boxing story based on the author's summer at a fighter's training camp); Bill Adams's nautical tale "Home Is the Sailor"; H.K. Cassels's duel story "A L'Outrance"; Clarence Herbert New's "Soft Living and Shipwreck"; and Reg Dinsmore's "Plouride Traps" about a North Woods guide. Additional stories include H. Bedford-Jones's "Three Black Sheep" (set during an American Legion Convention in Paris), a jungle adventure by Culpeper Zandtt, Rollin Brown's western "Forgotten Country" involving cattle rustlers and motor-trucks, plus five brief non-fiction experiences and regular departments on business training and frontier history.