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Simeon by the Editor, Jack Darrow: Initial comment adequate. H, Potter: Initial comment adequate, As I have alteady consumed more space than necessary, I will terminate rather abruptly. Hop- ing, this attempt affords you a bit of humor and sincerely trusting you are not to be deluged with letters complimenting me on my bloated ego. IL rewrite copy in order to secure my daily bread and that fact makes it second nature for me to con- tradict other people’s versions. So spare my humble efforts. C. P. Townsenp, Branford, Conn. {We have published many comments in this aol* umn concerning our stories, but here one of odr correspondents who possesses the editorial mind, gives seriatim criticism of many of our corre spondents’ letters, and we are sure that this com- munication will be greatly enjoyed by many of those who write to us and whose letters have ap- peared in this department of the magazine, In a sense, this is the most ‘original letter we have ever published. Now for a gas attack by super-super- critics, on this super-critic.—_EDITOR.] t i CONCERNING “TEN MILLION MILES SUN- WARD"—AN ADMIRER OF H. CG. WELLS— WHAT THE CELEBRATED CRITIC, ( WILLIAM ARCHER, SAYS ABOUT HIM orem a Editor, Arazing Stories: In the current (March) issue of. AmazInG Stories, the story which I congidered by far, the best was Geoffrey Hewelcke’s Ten Milidn Miles Sunward. Not only was it well told and of ab-_ sorbing interest, but it contained just enough sci- ence to give versimilitude to’ the tale acauracy .of that science, I am not competent to judge. However, I am inclined to believe that the feat of diverting the earth from its orbit is beyond the realms of possibility. ‘And even were such a stupendous project achieved, it could only result in universal chaos, for the planets of the solar sys- tem are so delicately balanced that the slightest deviation from its course of so huge a mass as the earth. could not fail to precipitate a catastrophe. But I need not indulge further in such~ futile guesses, for by the time this letter is printed—if at all—Professor Luyten's solution will already have appeared; and I am not one to contest in the lime- light with a Harvard don. Therefore T shall turn to a subject with which IT am more familiar; namely, the recent attempts of some misguided readers to disparage the stories of H. G. Wells. There is no need for me to defend Mr. Wells against these insignificant diatribes; but; for the edification of his detractors, let me’ quote what William Archer, in his eriticism-of -God, the Invisible King, says of Mr. Wells: ‘‘No~ quest is {oo perilons for him, no forlorn hope too daring, He led the first explorers to the moon, He it was who lured the Martians to earth and. exterminated them. with microbes. He has ensnared an angel from the skies and expiscated a mermaid from the deep. He has mounted a Time Machine (of hi own invention) and gone careering down the ‘vista of the Future.” _ This deserved tribute from a man who himself is prominent in Inglish letters needs no elaboration. As Mr. C, P. Prescott remarked in a recent letter, the critics of H. G, Wells ate more to be pitied than heeded: Were this magazine to contain but a single story in each issue, and that by H, G, Wells, T should continue to purchase it and consider myself amply repaid, I notice that a number of readers are continu- ally asking for reprints of certain masterpieces af scientifiction which have appeared in other maga- zines, In adding my request to theirs, I would specify the following: On the Brink of 2000, After a Million Years, and Between Worlds, by Garret Smith; The Metal Eptperor, by A. Merritt; and The Fire People, by Ray Cummings. Of course, T do_not suggest the reprinting of all these stories, but I would be highly gratified to see any one of them in this magazine, A. LL. Gtassen, 981 Forest Ave., New York, Ni ¥. [Ten Million Miles Sunwayd is certainly a very clever story, and the little sequel, as it may be. called, giving Professor Luyten’s clear explahation of this possibility, makes it a litte more valuable. Sometimes we feel that we lear:) more through our mistakes than from everyday instruction, Mistakes can be made to do good, sometimes exceeding the harm they. may, have done, and this story has done much to clarify the ideas of many readers on cos- ae physics. We wonder what some of the critics of Mr, As<to the ee