The Popular Magazine

This issue of Popular Magazine (November 20, 1923) contains ten pieces of fiction. The featured serial is Edison Marshall's "Lord of the Barren Lands," a four-part wilderness story following John Carlson, a woodsman in the Northern forests carefully observing wildlife—weasels, wood rats, coyotes, lynx, bears, and moose—around his lakeside camp as he prepares trap lines for winter. Other notable works include Wilbur Hall's complete novel "The Gladiator," about prize-ring drama; James Francis Dwyer's series installment "The Unusual Adventures of the Texan Wasp: The Scarlet Jackals of Seville"; Ralph D. Paine's five-part serial "Four Bells" (part five); and short stories by John Lawrence Ward, O.S. Montanye, Roy Norton, J. Frank Davis, Victor MacClure, T. von Ziekursch, and Robert H. Rohde. Subjects range from automobile mechanics to baseball, mining camps, theft, and boxing. An advertisement for the next issue promises Reginald Wright Kauffman's novel "Money to Burn," set in San Domingo.