The Blue Book Magazine, July 1916

# The Blue Book Magazine, July 1916

This issue contains eleven short stories and three serials, edited by Ray Long. Featured are Peter B. Kyne's "Big Tim Meagher," about a police officer who confronts the Police Commission while performing his duty; Walter Jones's humorous "The Outing at Stroebel's Lake"; and Perceval Gibbon's dark drama "The Squire of Dames," set in Paris's underworld. Additional stories include "The Pearl in the Oyster" by Gertrude Brooke Hamilton, "Quarter Limit" by William Almon Wolff (baseball-themed), and Ellis Parker Butler's "Saturday Afternoon," featuring confidence man Jabez Bunker. Serials include John Fleming Wilson's "The Temporary Heir," Louis Tracy's mystery "Number 17," and the conclusion of Cyrus Townsend Brady's "Whom God Hath Joined." Frank R. Adams provides a complete novel, "Princess Bill," described as frivolous and joyous.