Snappy Stories, First March Number

# Snappy Stories, March 1916

This pulp magazine presents entertainment fiction in the early twentieth-century style. The featured issue includes Hugh Kahler's novelette "The Stronger Sex," described as a accomplished humorous story about gender dynamics. Also prominently featured is "A Knowledge of Life" by Walter A. Roberts, set in Parisian student quarters (Boulevard Saint-Michel and Montparnasse), presenting tragedy and social warning. Rex T. Stout contributes "This Is My Wife," depicting cabaret life in New York, while the serial "Confessions of a Fashionable Practitioner" continues with original material. Additional stories include "Woman-fear" by debut author Hugh Kent (intimate study of a bride), "The Blind Heart" by Andrew Soutar, and works by Tarleton Collier, Dale Drummond, and others. A one-act play titled "Masks" by W. D. Hepenstall rounds out the fiction offerings. The issue also contains "The Dragon's Claw," a novelette by Jack Rowes involving mystery and intrigue at San Francisco's 1915 Exposition, where a woman in mourning is abducted.