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86 In the August number I thought the following were good: 'The Two Men Who Murdered Each Other,' 'The Strange Case of Jacob Arum,' 'Riders in the Dark,' 'Outcasts.'

The following fair: 'The Guard of Honor, 'Black Cunjer,' 'Shades.'

And the following bad: 'The Room in the Tower,' 'Senorita Serpente,' 'Mandrake.'

As you wisely remark, however, it is a good thing that everybody is not pleased by the same thing."

E'VE received, and are still receiving, a considerable number of flattering letters about Austin Hall's bizarre serial, "The People of the Comet," which came to an end in the October number, and in view of this we feel persuaded to quote an excerpt from a letter which the author writes to us:

After that (by way of thanking Mr. Hall), we can do no less than show him one of the many letters concerning his novel:

Here is one that quite makes us blush—and fills us with gratitude:

ROM Mrs. Elizabeth Purington of 1018 W. Walnut. St., Santa Ana, California, comes an interesting letter in which she asks our opinion of a dream she had. We're not so good at interpreting feminine dreams, so we pass her letter on to you, with the hope that somebody may be able to help the lady:

There's such a huge stack of letters here on our desk that, to use the utmost number of them, we'll have to step aside. and print 'em without editorial comment. After all, an editor, like a stage director, should stay in the wings, not in front of the curtain.

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