The Popular Magazine, February 7, 1919

# Lights Out: A Complete Novel by L. H. Robbins

The Popular Magazine, February 7, 1919, contains L. H. Robbins's complete novel "Lights Out," set in London during spring 1915. Tom Thurston, an American newspaper reporter, observes British wartime life with ambivalent feelings—the English mock American neutrality while he himself feels the moral urgency of the conflict. The narrative opens in darkened London under air-raid precautions, where Thurston encounters wartime anxiety and propaganda before visiting Ted Price at the Chicago Sun's London bureau.

The issue also debuts Caroline Lockhart's four-part serial "The Wolf Pack," described as depicting "the real West, with its rapid shifts of scene," and includes John Buchan's third installment of "Mr. Standfast," where General Hannay resumes combat. Additional short fiction includes "Lobster Pots" by Henry C. Rowland (detectives French and his thirteen-year-old son investigating off Maine), Ralph D. Paine's "On a Lee Shore" (final installment in an American navy series), Frederick Irving Anderson's "Live Bait" (Washington behind-the-scenes), and stories by E. M. Wickes, Harry P. Downes, and E. Albert Apple.