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Blue Book v57 n04 [1933-08], 1933
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1A Prize Winner's Story
3THIS issue begins with "Private Jungle," the latest short story by T. S. Stribling, whose novel "The Store" has recently been awarded the Pulitzer Prize as the best novel of the year. You will, we are confident, share our pleasure in this remarkable story, for it clearly reveals the fine qualities which have made his novels so impressive. Foremost of these qualities, you will find, is his ability to see and convey to you the extraordinary and picturesque side of what, to many, would be the most commonplace of American places and people. And in this fascinating Florida adventure of a professional criminologist, he is at his best.
5As to Mr. Stribling himself—he was born in Clifton, Tennessee, in 1881, and still lives there. But he knows and loves all of this America well, as his novels "Birthright," "Teef-tallow," "The Forge" and "The Store" well attest. . . . .
7Often an author or author's association makes inquiry of us concerning what sort of stories we most need for the magazine. Usually we reply: "Something new, something better—something different." For—though we are careful each month to give you, in ample proportion, stories of the tried-and-true types you have liked in the past—we do earnestly strive always to give our readers something that is new, or different or better.
9With this thought in mind we wish to call your special attention to two other items in this issue besides Mr. Stribling's "Private Jungle:" Chief Joseph White Bull's story of the famous Fetterman fight, as told to Stanley Vestal, is a remarkable historical document as well as a thrilling battle-story. For this old Sioux chieftain is the only survivor of both the Fetterman and the Custer battles, and his narrative is truly unique.
11Talbert Josselyn's sprightly "Smuggler's Cove" also deserves particular attention; but the merits of a story of this type can't be described; and we know you'll quickly discover them for yourselves.
13Next month—we expect also to give you something new, something different, something better.
15—The Editor.
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