s, and encourage
our fine string of authors to do even better work.--Gayl
Whitman, Fireman, Co. No. 11, Main at 22nd, Columbus, Ohio.

_Correspondents Wanted_

Dear Editor:

Another critic is going to take his pen in hand and give you
a bouquet. I have just finished reading the March issue of
A. S. and think it was fine.

Of all the stories you have published I liked "The Gray
Plague" the best. I don't care much for reprints because I
like new stories the best.

I would like to correspond with some of the Readers of A. S.
I will answer any or all letters I receive.--L. B. Knutson,
629--3rd Ave., So, Minneapolis, Minn.

_A Heroine a la Mode_

Dear Editor:

I'm with J. H. Nicholson, who advises those who are
indifferent to the scientifically possible in order to give
the author a broader field in which to lay his plot. As he
says, they should feel right at home with their noses stuck
into a volume of Anderson's Fairy Tales. However, this
letter is more to express the science lovers' viewpoint than
to sling mud at the authors. For us, the plot loses much of
its kick if the science is not reasonable.

Suppose for once that one of these Readers who waives
scientific possibility aside as secondary should pick up a
plot-distorted story in which the heroine should be
described something as follows:

"Hers was a tall superbly built figure combining the
strength of a horse with the gentle curves of a hippo. When
she spoke, her sweetly modulated voice was as pleasant to
the ear as the bray of a Spanish jackass. Her hair hung to
her waist and was the convenient nesting place for several
English sparrows. She was slightly cockeyed from birth and
had had her nose squashed in a saloon brawl. She carried
herself with the graceful dignity of an African orang-utan
and was always much sought after, having a quaint habit of
slapping every new male she met a resounding whack on the
back that loosened their bridge work. Being a veteran
tobacco chewer and having high blood pressure she could spit
one hundred feet against a fifty-mile wind. When she ate in
company, she had an amusing way of gargling her soup in
G-flat. Her--"

It's unnecessary to go further. Such a character would be
every bit as reasonably possible