Three."

Everything is perfect about your magazine except that there
are not enough stories in each issue. The uneven edges are
just fine, for it makes the pages easier to turn. The covers
are not too gaudy. The covers should depict a thrilling
incident in a story; they do.

"Phalanxes of Atlans" offered a good theory as to the
whereabouts of the descendants of the Atlanteans and the
Lost Tribes of Israel. It was keen.

I conclude my letter with a warning: do not change your
type. Also do not change your order of issue; I mean, do not
make your magazine into a bi-monthly as I see some magazines
of this type have done.--Robert Leonard Russell, 825 Casey
Ave., Mt. Vernon, Illinois.

_You Tell 'Em!_

Dear Editor:

I have always considered the drawings of H. W. Wesso far
superior to those of all other Science Fiction artists, and,
indeed, much better than the work of most pulp magazine
illustrators. But his cover for the March issue of
Astounding Stories was remarkable even for him; it was a
veritable masterpiece.

So enthralled was I by the first sight of this eye-arresting
picture that I stared at it for minutes on end. This
snarling titan with his mighty arm outstretched toward the
tiny figures just beyond his reach--what a gripping tableau!

Free from the superfluous, uninteresting machinery and
apparatus that clutter up most illustrations in other
Science Fiction magazines, your March cover remained
fantastic, but human--a picture that expressed the very
essence of super-scientific fiction as presented in
Astounding Stories. Vivid in color, striking in subject,
dramatic in treatment and drawn with consummate skill, that
cover must have attracted many new Readers to this magazine.

And the promise held out by the cover was more than
fulfilled by the contents of that issue--one of your best to
date. The only discordant note in the entire magazine was
the yapping and ranting of certain dissatisfied ----
[censored] too ---- [censored] to appreciate the finest,
most worthy publication in its field to-day.--Booth Cody,
Bronx, New York.

"_Nothing Is Automatic_"

Dear Editor:

First, I wish to congratulate you on the increasing quality
of your magazine since its first issue. It surpasses all