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 years I have read your delightful magazine, and I can truthfully say that I have never read its equal. I was disappointed, though, when I read in The Eyrie in the April number that you are going to continue the monthly reprint story; I have just laid the magazine up in despair, for, having read all the rest of your horrible, shivery and delightful stories, I attacked the reprint. Honestly, I couldn't finish it. I don't believe there has ever been one reprint which I started that I could finish. You have a magazine that would be ideal but for one thing, and that thing is the reprints."

"A few months ago," writes Miss Amy Beck, of Chisholm, Minnesota, "I picked up a copy of, and when I laid it down I had read every story, every poem, and every word in The Eyrie. So far I've not missed a copy. When the magazine comes I look for the reprint first; I think that a very good department in your magazine."

Philip H. Buscher, of Washington, D. C., writes to The Eyrie: "I have never written to this department before, but saw the suggestion made in The Eyrie by a gentleman in St. Louis, and I agree with him that you should stop the reprint stories. Use the space for your readers' own weird experiences in reality and dreams."

"By all means continue the 'reprint' stories," writes Llon Penhall Rees, of Toronto, Canada. "They serve as a foil for our newer, and very often better, authors of the present day."

"Your last three issues have been very fine," writes Robert E. Howard, from Cross Plains, Texas. "Certainly no magazine has ever offered a tale as unique and thought-inspiring as the serial by Mr. Cummings."

Writes John B. Woodhouse from on board the Hamburg-American steamer Deutschland: "I am on shipboard and have just finished my tenth . The magazine has helped me to pass away many happy hours that otherwise would have been boresome. Why not publish a list of all the stories in W. T. for the last twelve issues, and have the readers vote on the best five? Someone asked in The Eyrie a few months ago that you select the best stories from W. T. and publish them in book form. Well, why not? Such stories as The Woman of the Wood, The Night Wire, The Atomic Conquerors, The White Ship and The Last Horror are worthy of book form and a wide circulation."

"Please print some more insect stories like The City of Spiders," writes Roland Fernekes, of Oakmont, Pennsylvania. "I am a new reader of your magazine, but I never regret the day I bought the first one. I like especially the scientific stories, such as The Star Shell and Drome."

"Please give us more space-stories," writes James T. Ballew, of Newport News, Virginia, and adds: "They always make a hit. I have been a silent admirer of W. T. for a long time, and feel that I should let you hear from me relative to the stories I like best. I read each and every one, every month, but some I like better than others, which is very natural. I think The Star Shell was excellent, and I hope that Explorers Into Infinity turns out to be as good; it is very promising. Drome is also a wonderful piece of fiction, and I hope we have more such stories."

Writes Mrs. Marion M. Le Paire, of Detroit, Michigan: "Although usually I am not addicted to this type of fiction, a copy of —one of the first—was brought to me by my husband. I was immediately attracted by the diversity, originality and correctness of detail I found therein. Since then, each month finds me eagerly awaiting the appearance of . You have in it something unique, and while I could readily absorb a semi