The Popular Magazine, May 1911

# Catalog Note: The Popular Magazine, May 15, 1911

This issue of The Popular Magazine presents serialized and standalone fiction across multiple genres. Featured serials include "Initials Only" by Anna Katharine Green, described as a baffling detective story with an "apparently insoluble mystery" whose solution involves "an ingenious weapon." "An Enemy to Society" by George Bronson-Howard follows Stephen the Magnificent through life-changing events. "The Making of a Jockey" by H. W. Richards depicts young Lud Loden's path to winning the Club Handicap.

Complete novels include "The Cat's-Paw" by George Randolph Chester, a business-political story "intense, dramatic, with irresistible humor" involving the legislature and political bosses, and "In the Shadow of the Kris" by Frank L. Packard, set in the South Seas and centered around a significant conflict. Short fiction spans sports ("A Rain Check" on crooked baseball players), adventure ("A Cow-Puncher Widow"), and detective work ("Mr. Sweeny: Treasure Hunter"). Contributors include J. Kenilworth Egerton, Roy Norton, Max Marcin, and others.