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HERE has been a veritable flood of requests that be published twice a month instead of once a month as at present. There is only one way that you can bring this about, and that is to help boost the circulation of to a point where publication twice a month is feasible. Tell your friends about the magazine, and get them in the habit of reading it; for, although the circulation of is growing very rapidly, it has not yet reached a point where the publishers feel that it would be feasible to publish it twice as often as at present.

Writes G. C. Scott, of Terre Haute, Indiana: "Why not have ballots printed in hack of the next issue and leave it to the readers to vote on making this a 'twice-monthly' magazine?" The ballots are not necessary, for so many letters come to us every day asking us to publish twice a month that there seems no doubt that our readers wish the magazine to be issued twice as often as it is.

E. L. Middleton, of Los Angeles, writes to The Eyrie: "I think most of the readers of who have been with you since the beginning (March, 1923) will agree that the latest issue (May, 1926) will rank as the best, or nearly the best issue ever published. The stories are magnificent, particularly The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee, which ideally filled my old desire for a ghost story where the ghosts act and talk like real people, and yet are ghosts. Personally, I think that Whispering Tunnels, of about thirteen months ago, is the greatest single story ever published in, but The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee ranks closely with it. However, other readers will favor other stories, and really it is hard to make a choice. Keep on with your present policy of arrangement and variety in the magazine. The greatest series of stories published in , I think, are the Jules de Grandin ones, particularly that wonderful Tenants of Broussac."

Writes Earl Leaston Bell, of Augusta, Georgia: "The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee, in the May number, was one of the best yarns W. T. has ever wrapped itself about. Burks is a genius. Give us more of his work. In my opinion the greatest story that has ever appeared in the magazine is The Phantom Farmhouse, by Seabury Quinn. It should have a prominent place among the best short stories ever produced in America. But why was Lovecraft missing in the May issue? He is the noblest Roman of them all."

Several readers have taken up the cudgels in behalf of Lochinvar Lodge, Clyde Burt Clason's story in the March issue, which was harshly criticized by many readers because of its indefinite ending. Writes Cecil Puller, of Tulare,