I have
received. One says: "I'm a little boy 5 years old, and I just love your
Oz stories. My sister, who is writing this for me, reads me the Oz
books, but I wish I could read them myself." Another letter says: "I'm a
great girl 13 years old, so you'll be surprised when I tell you I am not
too old yet for the Oz stories." Here's another letter: "Since I was a
young girl I've never missed getting a Baum book for Christmas. I'm
married, now, but am as eager to get and read the Oz stories as ever."
And still another writes: "My good wife and I, both more than 70 years
of age, believe that we find more real enjoyment in your Oz books than
in any other books we read." Considering these statements, I wrote the
college professor that my books are intended for all those whose hearts
are young, no matter what their ages may be.

And while on this subject of letters I am reminded that a good many of
my correspondents neglect to slip a 3-cent postage-stamp into their
letters, for the answer. You are sending but one letter, you know, while
I get so many hundreds of letters that to prepay postage on all the
answers to them would be no small burden to me.

I think I am justified in promising that there will be some astonishing
revelations about The Magic of Oz in my book for 1919.

Always your loving and grateful friend,

L. FRANK BAUM,
Royal Historian of Oz.

"OZCOT"
at HOLLYWOOD
in CALIFORNIA
1918.

LIST OF CHAPTERS

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1 Woot the Wanderer 13

2 The Heart of the Tin Woodman 25

3 Roundabout 35

4 The Loons of Loonville 46

5 Mrs. Yoop, the Giantess 66

6 The Magic of a Yookoohoo 81

7 The Lace Apron 99

8 The Menace of the Forest 107

9 The Quarrelsome Dragons 122

10 Tommy Kwikstep 131

11 Jinjur's Ranch 143

12 Ozma and Dorothy 155

13 The Restoration 165

14 The Green Monkey 179

15 The Man of Tin 185

16 Captain Fyter 195

17 The Workshop of Ku-Klip 201

18 The Tin W