ries and would
be so kind as to send me these? From the first issue up to
the November, 193O, issue and also the December, 1930, issue
are the magazines that I should like to have.

Leave your magazine as is, only have one good long
novelette, not two fairly good ones as in your April issue,
which was not up to the standard set by your previous
magazines.--Walter G. Diehl, 145-38 Eighth Ave., Malba, L.
I., N. Y.

_This Time-Traveling Traffic_

Dear Editor:

Many times during the past months, while reading your really
remarkable magazine, I have come across contradictions in
explanations throughout the stories, which, while not very
serious, tend to give me the impression that the Authors
either did not care about or did not see through the errors
they committed. I did not complain about them, considering
them but minor mistakes.

But in Ray Cummings' latest current novel, "The Exile of
Time," there exists such a monstrosity as I believe calls
for an explanation.

Mr. Cummings' story, you know, centers around his
time-traveling machine. If such a thing were possible, would
it not be reasonable to believe that a holder of the secret
of time-traveling could go back into the past and prevent
some catastrophe or tragedy as his historical knowledge of
the event would make possible?

According to this theory then, a person could go back into
the past and divert the hand of Wilkes Booth on April 15,
1865, about to assassinate Lincoln.

But this shows its own impossibilities: that of two
contradicting absolute truths for the world to believe.

Likewise, a person could travel into the future, learn of
his own death, go back into his own time and take measures
to prevent it. In the same way, this could not be. [But Mr.
Cummings explains that these things are impossible.--_Ed._]

I do not mean to be critical, but it would lend much more
interest to the story if the authors would be a bit more
careful.--Robert W. Conrad, Rush City, Minn.

_Tripe?_

Dear Editor:

In the short time your mag. has been out, it has already
established itself as the best in the field. I got a real
kick out of most of your stories.

In the May issue, two yarns are outstanding: Charles W.
Diffin's splendid "Dark Moon" an