Munsey's Magazine

This volume of Munsey's Magazine (Volume XLVIII) combines editorial nonfiction with short and serial fiction. The nonfiction features analysis of contemporary 1912 American political, social, and technological developments—articles on Roosevelt's escape from assassination, the new Congress, the Progressive Party, emerging technologies like talking pictures and parcel post, surgical advances, and social commentary on gossip and clergymen's daughters. Contributors include Isaac Marcossson, Judson Welliver, and Frank Munsey himself. The fiction includes over forty short stories spanning domestic, humorous, Western, and adventure genres—works by Zane Grey, Damon Runyon, James Oliver Curwood, and others. Titles include "Caesar's Flower-Girl," "Eros and the Ear-Trumpet," and "The Hole in the Horn of Plenty." Five serials run throughout the volume: "His Great Adventure," "Hollow of Her Hand," "Joan Thursday," "Mirabel's Island," and "The Red Button," by authors including Robert Herrick and Louis Tracy. The magazine also features a complete drama: Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblauch's "Milestones."