edit of Science Fiction that in addition to interesting
Readers in other worlds it has also created an interest in
the fate of lands from which the Atlantic Ocean received its
name. This story is reminiscent of a story which appeared in
The Saturday Evening Post about three years ago called
"Maracot Deep." In this story a party of men (three, I
believe) descended to the bottom of the Atlantic and found a
surviving colony from Atlantis, and saw reproduced on a
screen events leading up to the sinking of Atlantis. It was
written by the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the only
weak spot was that Sir Arthur had to change the submergence
of Atlantis from a natural catastrophe into a "judgment" of
the gods, whose sense of propriety was outraged by the
"wickedness" of the Atlanteans. If you reprinted this story
your Readers would eat it up.

I hope that you publish this letter because I want to reply
through your "Readers' Corner" to Mr. Richard Lewis of
Knoxville, Iowa, on the subject of reprints.

Mr. Lewis says he has read most of the classic scientific
stories referred to. Well, so have I, but I should like to
read many of them again as would many of your Readers. I
have for the last twenty years been reading literary
classics but when I receive my copies of Good Literature or
The Golden Book I do not consider myself cheated because I
find some stories in them that I have read before. The best
are always worth reading at least twice.

As an illustration, has Mr. Lewis ever read the following:
the "Kasidah," by Sir Richard Burton, who gave the world its
best literal translation of "The Arabian Nights," which
differs as daylight from dark in comparison with the Lane
and Payne translations which are only edited for children to
read? Or has he read the chapter which Benjamin Franklin
added to the Bible? If Mr. Lewis read these for the first
time in any magazine he takes he would no doubt consider
them well worth the price of the magazine or more, yet they
would be reprints, the last one about as old as the United
States.

The "Kasidah" is a long poem on philosophic aspects of
evolution in which almost all Science Fiction Readers are
interested. In contains lines like the following:

"Conscience was bred
Wh