ence Fiction authors of the day. I cannot
conceive of any possible improvement in the magazine.

I do wish, though, that you would not heed the gratuitous
advice of certain earnest but misguided correspondents. For
instance, in the June issue, one Warren Williams of Chicago,
suggests that you enlarge the magazine and give each story a
full-page illustration, like other Science Fiction
periodicals. Mr. Williams evidently favors standardization.
As one magazine is, so must the rest be. Please ignore this
request, and others like it. Astounding Stories is
different, unique; just keep it that way, and you will never
lack a host of satisfied readers.

Before closing, I must voice my profound admiration for
Murray Leinster's brilliant and engrossing story, "Murder
Madness." It's the best serial you've printed so far; though
I have high anticipation for Arthur J. Burks' latest novel,
"Earth, the Marauder."--Mortimer Weisinger, 3550 Rochambeau
Ave., Bronx, New York.

_"I Mean Increased"_

Dear Editor:

I wish to thank you for your reply to my letter. I did not
expect you to give me a personal reply: that was why I asked
you to reply to me in "The Readers' Corner." You are the
only editor I have ever known of that goes to the trouble to
giving personal replies to readers. Other magazines require
a nominal fee. That's another score for you!

Your personal letter, as a girl would aptly say, "tickled me
all over."

I am sorry I can't get a subscription just yet, but I am
"bound" to my newsdealer a little while yet, as I
immediately gave him a monthly order for Astounding Stories.

If you are the one who picked the authors, you have the best
taste I have ever seen in one person. But couldn't your
taste be improved? Pardon me, I mean increased. Namely,
please add to your taste: H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E.
Howard.

If you had different authors, in other words, new,
inexperienced authors, I would object to your running more
than one serial at a time, but with the marvelous old-timers
I have no objections, for they can write long ones far
better than they can the shorts. So keep them at work.

The three short stories, "Out of the Dreadful Depths," "The
Cavern World" and "Giants of the Ray," were all very good.