The Popular Magazine, July 23, 1915

# THE PRODIGAL AND OTHER TALES

This issue of Popular Magazine (Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, 1916) features diverse stories across business and adventure genres. The lead offering is W.B.M. Ferguson's complete novel The Prodigal, concerning a ruined heir who unexpectedly inherits a failing baseball club and must determine its fate. W. Douglas Newton contributes The Coup, a wartime aviation story in which an aviator's irritation at his passenger's chart-marking work exceeds his concern over bursting shrapnel. Holworthy Hall's McHenry and Dillingham: Angels depicts theatrical promotion requiring quick wits from a character named "Pepper."

Earl Derr Biggers and Robert Welles Ritchie offer Part II of Inside the Lines, a three-part serialization of a successful stage play. Additional short stories address diverse professions: H.C. Witwer's In This Corner covers prize fighting; George Washington Ogden's The Probation of P.D. follows an agricultural graduate among Western sheep-herders; and entries by Frederick Niven, Raymond S. Spears, and George Woodruff Johnston explore mystery, Wall Street speculation, and jewel theft respectively.