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Editor, {{sc|Amazing Stories:}}

I have just read, "The Man Who Could Vanish," in your January issue.

In comment, I can only repeat your own words, "It is the best story of invisibility I have ever read."

As for the possibility of material things becoming invisible, I wish to relate in as few words as possible, a crude instance of the idea.

My sister and I were walking in the Florida woods, one day, when I noticed about ten or twelve feet ahead of us, one of the large banded spiders in its beautiful web, which was stretched between the branches of a small tree; I could distinctly see the web, with its intricate tracery and its zig-zag line of heavier tissue; the spider also was in plain sight, as large as a bumble-bee.

I tried to point it out to my sister, when, to my surprise, the spider, web and all, vanished. I could see the branch where it had been, and went forward to investigate; of course, I walked right into the web, and the spider, quite visible now, ran down over my face and arm, and escaped. Perhaps you know, as I afterward learned and saw for myself, that the zig-zag line of web-tissue is a spring, which, on the approach of an enemy, the spider agitates, producing so rapid a vibration of the web that the eye cannot follow it; it becomes invisible just as the spokes of a wheel in rapid motion become invisible, and even transparent to some extent.

There is an absolutely true story of the vanishing of a living creature, house and all; perhaps it may serve as the basis of some future story of invisibility! Help yourselves, authors.

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{{c|'''WHERE WILL THE FLOODS OF THE "SECOND DELUGE" GO?'''}}

Editor, {{sc|Amazing Stories:}}

{{sc|Amazing Stories}} is a magazine that hits the with me as no other fiction magazine has ever done. Although I do not have any too much time to devote to reading I do manage to get through the book before the next issue comes out.

If you make it a semi-monthly I, for one, would welcome A. B. Maloir's suggestion: a complete story in one issue and a bunch of short stories in the next, I think this a very novel idea and would like to see it tried out.

Since reading "The Second Deluge" I have been asking myself repeatedly this question: "Where would a six-mile layer of water on this earth go to when it receded?" Even Cosmo Versal's explanation of it seeping into the earth's crust seems to me rather inadequate. The idea of it evaporating into space is of course impossible, once it had gathered upon the earth, because it could get no farther than our atmosphere, which would hold no more than a few inches at the most. About 25 per cent of the earth’s surface is land and quite a little of that is solid rock. I doubt if even six miles of hydraulic pressure could force much water into them.

Of course the enormous pressure of the increased depth over the old ocean beds would exert an upheaving influence to the higher ground and perhaps pop out a few mountain peaks. It seems to me there would never again be much more than 8 or 10 per cent of dry land for millions of years.

"The Man Who Could Vanish," was very good but the theory seemed rather vague. Somewhere, several years ago (I think it must have been in the Electrical Experimenter) I read a story in which Invisibility was an issue. The principle there was mirrors and prisms reflecting and refracting the light around the object.

On the whole I enjoy every one of the stories even though there may be some little technicality occasionally, which is too much for me to grasp at once, {{right|{{sc|Wesley A. Kauper,}}{{gap|4em}} Jamestown, N. D.}}

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