The Popular Magazine

Museum Catalog Note: The Popular Magazine, August 1, 1910 This issue contains multiple serials and short stories. The featured novel is Holman Day's "The Gashing Fiddlers," in which a young forester named Harte Pennell is sent by a large timber trust called the Grand Tulandic to the St. John country to acquire a million acres of forest, where he encounters "gashing fiddlers" (cross-cut sawyers). The issue includes two additional serial installments: John T. McIntyre's "The Singular Experience of Ashton-Kirk" (Part Two), featuring a criminal investigator, and Maurice Leblanc's "813," following Arsène Lupin as chief of police and Prince Sermine. Zane Grey's "The Heritage of the Desert" follows an Easterner's transformation near the Grand Canyon. Short stories include Charles E. Van Loan's "The Fresh Guy" (baseball), Bertrand W. Sinclair's "The Red Streak" (frontier adventure), Roy Norton's "How Music Came to Willow Creek" (mining camp), and works by Rupert Hughes, E. Phillips Oppenheim, and others spanning detective, automotive, and business genres.