Top-Notch Magazine, February 1912

# Top-Notch Magazine, February 1912

This twice-monthly pulp magazine contains several complete novels and serials. "His Canned Drama Debut" by Ralph Boston follows a motion-picture fan entering the film industry. "The Tricolored Sins" by Barry Wolcott depicts Braybrooke and Tyrone's strange adventures. Novelettes include "By Courtesy of the Port" by Jasper Wreech Levison, concerning identity and U.S. customs; "By the King's Favor" by Richard Hatton, pivoting from football to royal politics; and "For the Glory of Oberlin" by J. Raymond Elderdice. Other tales feature a railroad disaster investigation, a furrier's risky investment, and authorial struggles. Three serials run across issues: "Will O' the Wisp" by W. Bert Foster (Revolutionary War adventure), "The Fire Fighter" by Bertram Lebhar, and "The Barge Canal Mystery" by Roland Ashford Phillips. The magazine also includes practical mechanics articles and reader correspondence debating serial fiction's merits, with editor Burt L. Standish announcing upcoming airship serial "On the Wings of Chance" by John Milton Edwards.