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plorers Into Infinity cries aloud for a sequel. Let Martt and Frank and Frannie and Dr. Gryce go after Brett. Let Brett return. Let anything happen, but we must hear about it through your pages—soon."

Except for these five letters objecting to the story, or its ending, all the other letters received up to the time this issue goes to press have been favorable, some mildly so, but most of them enthusiastic in praise of Mr. Cummings' imaginative tale.

"Explorers Into Infinity, by Ray Cummings, ended splendidly, this story making me a Cummings fan," writes Herbert E. Woodburn, of Irvington, New Jersey. "Eli Colter's new story, The Dark Chrysalis, promises wonders, something different from the usual run."

"Here are bouquets for your shivery, delightful magazine from a new species of friend, the 'flapper' reader of ," writes Cathryn M. Banks, of Staten Island,, New York. "I've been reading it since the time when, a few years ago at boarding school, one of our greatest joys was to pile up on the bed after a chafing-dish party and listen while our best orator read to us from The effect was as spooky as we could desire, for we put all the lights out, and our reader sat on the floor behind a screen, a torchlight at her elbow. To name my favorite stories is not an easy matter; I enjoy nearly all of them. The scientific ones are thrilling, educational, and some of them, I hope, prophetic. The experiences of the delightful little Frenchman, Jules de Grandin, are fascinating. The Man Who Cast No Shadow had enough shivers in it for two or three weird tales. But of all the grisly tales you've printed, I think the prize-winner is one you printed a year or more ago, The Return of the Undead, by Arthur Leeds. I nominate it as the weirdest of weird tales; the mere recollection of it has a strange effect on one. One of your most fascinating stories was The City of Glass; it was full of romantic glamor, yet it seemed so entirely plausible. Could one read anything ghostlier than The Outsider or The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee? And besides all these, you have another type of story which appeals to me, perhaps, most of all—those lovely, fanciful things, such as The Woman of the Wood, a poetic idyl I shall long remember; and The Greatest Gift, one of the best love-stories I have had the pleasure of reading."

"I do not know when a story has affected me as much as the first installment of The Dark Chrysalis, unless it be Dracula, which I read many years ago," writes H. J. Herster, of Easton, Pennsylvania. "Too bad, though, it is a serial."

"May I vote for The Dark Chrysalis by Eli Colter as the best story in the June issue?" writes Gordon Philip England, of Sutton, Quebec. "That promises to be one of the most thrilling tales you have yet printed—which is saying a good deal."

Mrs. J. C. Murphy, of Washington, D. C., writes: "Explorers Into Infinity finished without a let-down, and A Suitor From the Shades was glorious. Practically every story in this issue was worth buying the magazine for. Can't give any knocks to this issue (June)—only shrieks of appreciation. But, in retrospect, I didn't like Drome. The reason I pick on it is because it let on to be something wonderful, and everybody said it was, but it fell mighty flat with me. Now Explorers Into Infinity—that is something! Each