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The Reader and Collector, v. 2, issue 2, June 1941

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     My copy of Rip Van Winkle was designed and printed by "The Goudys" at The village Press located near the town of Marlborough-on-the-Hudson. It is told, that the place where the Goudys lived was at one time Wolfert's Roost---the home of the original characters in Rip Van Winkle. The book is illustrated with six steel engravings, which I understand were made by Felix Darley in 1848. The binding is a pure green sheepskin. A really fine book of a fine tale of fantasy.

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   Will some kind person tell me why Ackerman and Morojo bother to publish "Voice of the Imagi-nation"? I have just scurried through the Marc, 1941 issue and try as I will, I simply cannot find any rhyme or reason in its contents. The last line on Page 8 is representative of the entire magazine. "I can prove I'm a poet. My feet show it: They're Longfellows--!"

     "Pacifying Koenig" an article in Speer's "Sustaining Program" for Spring, 1941 left me somewhat stunned and bewildered. Particularly the 2-dimensional picture of a tesseract and the sketches entitled "cube in perspectives in perspectives." They reminded me of a story. Weveral years ago two of the lamp companies drew up plans for some new photometers for measuring the light output of large lamps. One of the companies adopted the conventional design, a huge sphere; the other company decided to build an icosahedron. When the news leaked out one of the engineers of the first company asked "What-in-hell is an icosahedron?" The answer came back, "It's something that has one more side than a rhododedron."

     Another item which left me confused, dazed, perplexed and puzzled was Thompson's Story (?) "Race Suicide" published in Fantaseer, No. 5. It has something to do with paleontology and anthropoids; of tigers and lemmings; of Gurra and Nhalits; of Larmit and Polon and one line about some lame guy named Lander. The last paragraph goes like this "But after had turned the machine off, Rhanning again began wondering about the Anthropoids. He supposed the mystery would never be solved." Believe me, there's more chance of solving that mystery than there is of ever learning what "Race Suicide" is all about and why Thompson ever wrote it. An expectant world is breathlessly awaiting an answer. And, me too.

     The cover of the May, 1941 issue of Comet illustrated most forcibly the care with which some of our professional (?) scientific-fiction magazines are edited and published. The principle if not only reason for my purchase of that issue was the fact that in the list of stories on the cover there was one by Frank Belknap Long, "Sky Trap". Long is one of my favorite authors and I opened the magazine with keen anticipation. I searched from one cover to the other; not once but a half dozen times. Did I find "Sky Trap"? I did not. Long's story was not to be found. May I inquire, "Why not, Editor Tremaine?" If you don't have a damn good alibi, I'll turn you in to the Federal Trade Commission, so help me.

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8. My copy of Rip Van Winkle was designed and printed by "The Goudys" at The village Press located near the town of Marlborough-on-the-Hudson. It is told, that the place where the Goudys lived was at one time Wolfert's Roost---the home of the original characters in Rip Van Winkle. The book is illustrated with six steel engravings, which I understand were made by Felix Darley in 1848. The binding is a pure green sheepskin. A really fine book of a fine tale of fantasy. NOTES AND QUERIES On This and That Will some kind person tell me why Ackerman and Morojo bother to publish "Voice of the Imagi-nation"? I have just scurried through the Marc, 1941 issue and try as I will, I simply cannot find any rhyme or reason in its contents. The last line on Page 8 is representative of the entire magazine. "I can prove I'm a poet. My feet show it: They're Longfellows--!" "Pacifying Koenig" an article in Speer's "Sustaining Program" for Spring, 1941 left me somewhat stunned and bewildered. Particularly the 2-dimensional picture of a tesseract and the sketches entitled "cube in perspectives in perspectives." They reminded me of a story. Weveral years ago two of the lamp companies drew up plans for some new photometers for measuring the light output of large lamps. One of the companies adopted the conventional design, a huge sphere; the other company decided to build an icosahedron. When the news leaked out one of the engineers of the first company asked "What-in-hell is an icosahedron?" The answer came back, "It's something that has one more side than a rhododedron." Another item which left me confused, dazed, perplexed and puzzled was Thompson's Story (?) "Race Suicide" published in Fantaseer, No. 5. It has something to do with paleontology and anthropoids; of tigers and lemmings; of Gurra and Nhalits; of Larmit and Polon and one line about some lame guy named Lander. The last paragraph goes like this "But after had turned the machine off, Rhanning again began wondering about the Anthropoids. He supposed the mystery would never be solved." Believe me, there's more chance of solving that mystery than there is of ever learning what "Race Suicide" is all about and why Thompson ever wrote it. An expectant world is breathlessly awaiting an answer. And, me too. The cover of the May, 1941 issue of Comet illustrated most forcibly the care with which some of our professional (?) scientific-fiction magazines are edited and published. The principle if not only reason for my purchase of that issue was the fact that in the list of stories on the cover there was one by Frank Belknap Long, "Sky Trap". Long is one of my favorite authors and I opened the magazine with keen anticipation. I searched from one cover to the other; not once but a half dozen times. Did I find "Sky Trap"? I did not. Long's story was not to be found. May I inquire, "Why not, Editor Tremaine?" If you don't have a damn good alibi, I'll turn you in to the Federal Trade Commission, so help me.