Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 18, 1928 — page 161: what you’re looking at

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THE READER’S VIEWPOINT Ts hundred and seventy-four guesses to date—January 18—on the identity of “Eyes West!’’ author and only thirteen of them correct! This without count- ing any of the seven advanced by E. M. B., whose letter appears below. Instead of telling our readers soon who it is, as she begs us to, we are going to print another serial from the same source, a rattling good one, too, full of pep, action and gunplay. Then the guessing can go merrily on. The sequel to ‘‘ The War Chief” has just been finished. Detroit, Micx. The Arcosy was the one and only all fiction magazine that my father would have in the house when I was a youngster. It was in yellow covers and came out once a month. I've read it ever since, and that’s been over twenty years, so I feel that I’m quite an old friend. { enjoy Fred Maclsaac’s stories—George Worts, Charles Francis Coe, Hulbert Footner, Seltzer, Brand, Johnson—honest, to write all the ones [ like to read would take the rest of the afternoon. { like all of them part of the time, and most of them all of the time, and that covers it. “The Return of George Washington” had a real kick in it. Enjoy Don Waters’s railroad yarns. My special fondness is a good mystery story. However, the Arcosy is a well balanced magazine and it agrees with hubby and me. He cleans up on each week’s Arcosy. I wait until I have three or four complete stories—then what a time! I read it all and find many gems in the little poems, lots of fun in the Reader’s View- point, and wonderful entertainment in the stories. That’s what I read ‘em for—entertainment—and I get it. Some of the stories, such as ‘“ The Future Eve,” and “Sea Lure” I don’t like as well as others, but I read them, anyway, and get something to think about after all. I’ve guessed till I’m dizzy about “ Eyes West!” and I give up. Please tell us soon, and relieve our suspense. First I said MaclIsaac, then John- son, Seltzer, Perkins, Worts, Brent, Burroughs, but I’m bushed. Wish Mr. Burroughs would give us a sequel to “The War Chief.” Can't forget that boy is white. E. M. B. Boston, Mass. I have been a reader of the Arcosy-ALLSTORY for about two years and can truthfully say I never yet came across an issue which [ did not enjoy. Your serials cannot be beaten. Another thing I appreciate very much are the poems, es- pecially those by Raymond Cash. Your best writer by far is Fred Maclsaac. His stories, “The Pancake Princess” and ‘“ The Mysterious Stranger,’ were excellent. At present I am read- ing “ What! Los Angeles?” and it appears great. In regard to the Westerns, I think Arcosy would be incomplete without them. What a magazine needs is a wide range of settings and the Westerns always suit me. “ Moonglow,” which was printed quite awhile ago, was great. I read it about four times and no doubt will read it four times more. Charles Francis Coe is generally good, but “ Alkali was one story I could not. get interested enough in to finish reading. Probably if I had read on farther I might have liked it better, as I usually enjoy anything by Coe. As long as Arcosy keeps up its variety and good list of au- thors [ll be an interested reader. R:; C.K MetrosE Park, ILL. I have been a reader of the Arcosy for a number of years, that is, off and on, but I have hardly missed a number since you issued Don Waters’s “On to Florida.” I have just read the Reader’s Viewpoint for January 7, and I entirely agree with Dr. J. L. S., of Wallace, [daho, about “ true-to- life” stories. I believe every man has his likes and dislikes, and certainly think I prefer the above-mentioned type of story; although, as the saying goes, “A little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men!” I just finished George F. Worts’s “Who Did Kill Ezra Kragg?” and it is a very puzzling story, something like the “ Lady and Tiger” story, isn’t it? Three cheers for G. F. Worts, Don Waters, Laurance Hare, and the rest! After I read the George Washington story, I came to the conclusion that the Arcosy-ALLSToRY WEEKLy has the best run of stories, bar none, in America! L. Wz C. ARNOLD, Pa. I am very much interested in the Reader’s Viewpoint and have been thinking of writing for some time, so here I am. I have been reading Arcosy for several years and think it beats other magazines that cost much more than it does, but of all your stories I never had one to come anywhere near being as intensely interesting as “The Return of George Washington” and when one reads fiction one should take it as fiction and not confuse it with facts, as one of the read- ers of Reader’s Viewpoint seems to do. Mrs. B. E. W. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Since the Reader’s Viewpoint department was instituted I have been following it with great interest to get other readers’ opinions on the different stories published in your magazine. In the December 31 issue I noticed the first letter from a reader in Indianapolis, J. N. B., which 959 Gomichbooks