Adventure Magazine, March 1916 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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From Different Kinds and Various Places It’s easy for an editor to say what he thinks about his own magazine, but people are likely to discount his opinion as that of a prejudiced party. The real point- -and people know it—is what do the readers think of the magazine? Here is what the readers think of Adventure, in so far as a page of space can set it forth: As I finished my week’s work today as a probationer on circuit with the Methodist Church of Canada, I turned to the one magazine of real red-blooded and true adventure which I can still find room for on my study table... . In closing let me thank you for a magazine full of life and full of adventure, yet so clean that I can and do recommend it to the boys and young men in my charge, knowing that it will broaden their sympathies with the stranger within our gates, educate them in the cus- toms of the great world without and bring them to a knowledge of the great brother- - hood of man. . . . If you wish to use this letter in any way please omit name as it may not be just in accordance with the powers that be, though I am glad to see your magazine on the tables of many of my fellow workers of all denominations . and always hear a good word of it. Have been a reader of Adventure for quite a while, and, believe me, she’s “some class.”’ Ama cowpuncher by ‘ ‘choice, ’ and it sure is great to take your Adventure, get down on your belly in the bunk-house and read and dream, no matter how old it is— KENNETH E. Moore, Cheyenne, Wyo. I address you as a friend because you have been a friend to all who like clean fic- tion, with a little excitement. I am no adventurer and have never been outside of the U. S. A. or Canada. I noticed your article in the “Camp- Fire’ on back copies. I wish to say that I have a copy of each issue ever printed by you from Vol. I, No. 1, to date, and as you speak of having holders of back copies let- ting you know when they wish to dispose of their old volumes, I will say that I am not that “‘hard up” as to sells any of them. Some day when there is no hope of getting any grub otherwise, I may want to sell, but I think I’ll go without a sandwich for several days first—FRANKLIN C. MOYER, Reading, Pa. Yesterday in the village of Craonne, until lately occupied by the Germans, I came across a copy of Adventure for the month of January 1915.— Sous- officier, 2e Regiment Etranger, Bataillon C, Secteur Postal No. 6, France. I take more pride in that shelf of Adven- ture than I do in my most expensive vol- umes.—J. T. D. WEIs, Pelham, N. Y. _ [ have been a reader of Adventure for five years and would not give it up for any other magazine printed. I read about twenty magazines each month, but the one for which I wait impatiently, and for which I leave even the clanking job-press, is your Adventure—and mine. As the letterhead indicates, I am one of that great class of rural educators, the country editors.—Ep.T. CHILD, Mesita, Colo. For ever thirty years I have succeeded in repressing an innate desire to write a “letter to the editor.”’ I might have sup- pressed that impulse for a few decades more had you not announced in your last issue that one might obtain indexes to Adventure beginning with Vol. IV, and I sure want those indexes. ‘“‘My only regret,” to quote Nathan Hale, is that they don’t begin with Vol. I, as I am one of the host who have bought every number of Adventure since its first issue, and frequently have occasion to look up some article or story of especial interest in some of the early issues. . . To my mind the “Camp-Fire”’ is the most distinctive feature in any magazine.— Haro.p M. HASKELL, Manchester, N. H. comiclbool CO inn