The Popular Magazine, March 20, 1922

Popular Magazine, Vol. LXIII, No. 5 (March 20, 1922) This issue opens with "The Lost Mine of Morgan le Fay," a complete novel by William Winter about General de Launay, a former cowboy turned French Foreign Legion officer who returns to Twin Forks, Nevada seeking a new life after World War I. The narrative begins at rancher Ike Brandon's isolated property in the high desert between Nevada and Idaho, where his six-year-old granddaughter Marion awaits the arrival of herders. The story explores the clash between sheep ranching and the old cattle culture of the West. Additional content includes H. de Vere Stacpoole's continued serial "Vanderdecken" (Part II), George Hugh Banning's four-part story "Spunyarn" (Part IV concluding a sea voyage), Holman Day's six-part serial "The Spark in the Tinder" (Part V), and short stories by Frederick Stuart Greene, Calvin Johnston, Ralph D. Paine, T. von Ziekursch, and Arthur Tuckerman. An editorial section and humor piece "Classics in Slang" (on Gulliver's Travels) round out the issue.