Argosy All-Story Weekly, Vol. 189, No. 4 — page 169: what you’re looking at

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THE READER’S VIEWPOINT ROM far-off Australia comes the first roast of The Reader’s Viewpoint. It’s a 5 ‘brainless cripple,’’ says our correspondent, and hopes soon to see notice of its discontinuance. In the same mail was a communication from Methuen, Massa- chusetts, suggesting that we enlarge the department to three pages. So there you are. Two weeks ago we had something to say about the status of this section of our maga- zine. Certain it is if we decided to omit it we should not care to do so until after ascertaining the results of a guessing contest we are planning to inaugurate in connection with the finish of “ The Return of George Washington,” George Worts’s astounding serial to begin October 15. We expect to get a lot of fun out of that which should atone for the extra bother a department like this entails upon us. And we feel we owe it to our readers to give them a harder nut to crack than the outcome of “ Why Did She Do It?” proved to be for them. Further particulars later. _ Unless Robert D. S. and Paul L. S. can tell us who wrote “ Out of the Moon ” we cannot answer their query. They should both be delighted with “ The Return of George Washington” and other decidedly ‘“ different” serials that are to follow it. This will be good news, too, to G. H. L. Also to W. T. B., of Barbados. M. B. is informed that we still have back numbers of “ The Seal of Satan ” in stock. The story began in the issue for February 6, 1926, and ended in that for March 6. Any of the five numbers will be sent for twenty cents each. To the correspondent who wrote ““ Please put this in the Reader’s Viewpoint, because I wrote before and it was not printed,” we should like to suggest that he make another attempt, with comments on the stories he has liked or disliked, put as briefly as possible. As we have many times pointed out, it is utterly out of the question to publish all the letters we receive or even half or a quarter of them. A letter signed “ A. H. B. and others ” implies that Fred MacIsaac and Kenneth Perkins are under contract to this magazine which leaves the editor no choice but to publish everything they write. under contract to us. SHEPHERD, MicnH. Give us more railroad stories. ‘ Pounding the Rails” was very good. When I go to the news- stand the first thing I do is pick up an Arcosy and glance down the list of authors. If I see that Don Waters is listed I know that there is a good railroad story in store for me. It sells me the magazine. If your company publishes a magazine of all railroad stories, please send me a copy as a sample. If you do not publish one and know of any company which does, please tell me where I can get it, as I have tried to find a railway story magazine in every State in the U. S. A. and have been unsuccessful. B. W. F. ---— We do not know of any magazine now published devoted wholly to railroad fiction. From now on we expect frequently to print a story of this type from Don Waters or Laurance M. Hare, who have both had practical experience in the business. Riversipe, CAarir. Allow me to compliment you on your excel- lent story, “ The Call to Arms,” by Gordon Stiles. I am a Canadian ex-service man, and have felt some resentment at times at the attitude of Ameri- 639 This is distinctly not the case. Each manuscript that is offered is judged strictly on its merits. In fact, no author is can writers regarding the war, but in this yarn, so true to those days, I felt very kindly toward Stiles and compliment him very highly on his abil- ity as a writer and for putting those sterling chaps who came over from the States in the early part of the war in their proper light; lovable, loyal, fightin’ fools. Your magazine was good before you signed up Stiles, but it is much better now he is with us. Yours for more of Stiles’s style. BE. L. D, Quay, OKLA. This is the first time I have written—and I started reading the All-Story with the story, “ At His Mercy,” by Johnston McCulley, and the Arcosy with “The Spy at Valley Forge,’ by A. P. Terhune, who has turned into a dog fan- cier—but I like his historical romances much bet- ter. I like the Arcosy* “as she is,” but could appreciate more “ different” stories, and less—if possible—Westerns. I inclose two dollars for six months’ subscription to Arcosy. W.f. J. HAmiILTon, ONTARIO, CANADA, As a reader of your fine magazine, I would like to express my hearty appreciation of the story, “The Call to Arms,” by Gordon Stiles : I have enjoyed it greatly, Mr. Stiles quite evi- eComichbooks “ie * (E@)