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But I must sign off now, as time and paper are growing short, and thank you for this heart-to- heart conversation with your secretary. 7.” P. S. In case that this is published, don’t men- tion my name, for I am very bashful. Just say, “A gentleman from Ann Arbor, Mich.—’’, or something like that. ka: his Ann Arbor, Mich. [The Editors of AmMazinc Stories are very for- tunate in that they receive such an avalanche of letters during the week, so that they are hard put to it not only to answer them, but to select those for publication. Making up imaginary letters, therefore, for these columns, would seem like carry- ing coal to Newcastle. We publish our correspondent’s letter mainly for the reason that we wish to show the wide variation of opinion of stories between different readers. What one likes another denounces violently. As a matter of fact, with the exception of a few out- standing stories, there seems to be little agreement among the readers as to their likes and dislikes.— EDITOR,] OLD AUTHORS APPRECIATED Editor, AMAZING STORIES: I have read the three last issues of “Amazing Stories’’ and have found some that were excellent and some that I considered as being rather loose in spots. Certainly Jules Verne owes this generation no apology. read many of his thirty years ago: including “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’; “Hector Servadac or the Career of a Comet’’, and “The Mysterious Island.” ‘*Hector Servadac’”” would be a most excellent story for those that have not read it and are fond of the highly imaginative. H. Rider Haggard, now dead, also wrote many wonderful stories. “The People of the Mist’’, ‘‘Montezuma’s Daughter’, and ‘‘The Heart of the World”, as well as “She’’, grip the imagination in a way that no other writer has ever succeeded in doing in that type of fiction, True, these are not your newly coined ‘‘Scientifiction’, but they truly are amazing stories and have none of the loose spots in them. H. G. Wells needs none to champion his work. He has been at the top of the list ever since he wrote the “‘War of Worlds’? about a quarter of a century ago. No loose spots there either. Murray Leinster certainly knows his “bugs.” He has made quite a character of Burl and let us hope that we hear more of the doings of this primitive reasoner. It certainly is a relief to read a pseudoscientific story that is written by a person who does know something of science and does not have to depend entirely on his imagina- tion. Certainly Leinster appears to be an ento- mologist of parts. Garrett P. Serviss and Edgar Rice Burroughs are two more that are in the top rank and are commendably free from that looseness that I have mentioned before, and I almost forgot Eng- land in my list of good authors along that line. In regards to the length of stories I prefer the regular full novel length. I don’t think that it would hurt the magazine at all to include one of the old masters, so to speak, in each issue. While the works of Wells, Haggard, Serviss, England and some others may be old stuff with some of us, as one of your readers had pointed out, and are standard ma- terial at the libraries, there are many that do not even know that such works exist in out of the way places. Not every one, and rather a small percentage are so situated that they have a library at their disposal. Even in some fairly good sized towns the library is sadly lacking in that respect. I can name a town with about twenty or more thousand population, which has one of General Motors’ largest plants, and there are not more than three of the books of Haggard in the public library. E. H. Harpy, Norwood, O. [The suggestion that works by old-time authors should be used in all our issues, we hope in a measure to carry out. Murray Leinster’s stories are of a very high order of merit, because in read- ing them, you are really studying correct ento- mology, and his description of the development of fungoid vegetation is most valuable. Our corre- spondent has undoubtedly seen the description and illustration of the exploding mushroom in our last issue, showing that the author of the adven- tures of Burl knew his botany.—EDITOR.1 Makes people and objects miles away seem close. Brings new pleasures to home, farm, camp, travel = aay we See moon andstars as never before. § New_ Ferry “‘Wonder’’ telescope has 6 sections — over 3 ft. long open, 12 in. closed. Fully brass bound. 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