"Planet Paradise," also cast his vote for the story:
"Dear Mr. Baird: Just a note to let you know my vote on 'The Transparent Ghost' question is: 'PRINT IT!' It must be a masterpiece of HUMOR, if the letter is a good specimen.
"I was glad to look around for your novel, 'Fay.' It in no wise inconvenienced me. I hack around the bookstores quite a deal.
"thanks for putting out a whale of a magazine in the November W. T. After running that eloquent and stirring story 'The People of the Comet,' I had supposed you had printed the best thing in existence on the subject, but then to come back with 'Draconda!' I take off my hat to John Martin Leahy. All I don't like about it is that, after running it, my story 'Planet Paradise,' will be too poisonous for the public to swallow. But here's hoping half as much pleasure is squeezed from it as I experience in giving it birth."
FLATTERING—and interesting, too—is this letter from Charles M. Boone, Third Officer of the Steamship Yumuri:
"Editor, W. T.—By all means let us have Mrs. Isa-Bell Manzer's 'Transparent Ghost!' If it is as good as the letter, and your comment relative thereto, it must be unusual at least. As for the difficulty in deciding whether it is a 'puzzle picture or a new interpretation of the Einstein theory,' forget it——few of us know the difference, anyway.
"Let us have more of Mr. Austin Hall's work. He is a good metaphysician as well as an entertaining writer. His story held my interest strong enough to cure a nasty headache. All weird stories that are in any manner connected with astronomy, or its parent study of astrology, are good. . . .
"Such little yarns as Valens Lapsley's, 'The Pebble Prophecy,' and Burton Harcourt's, 'The Wax Image,' are very good. Your weakest point is in the humorous stories. Some of them are very good; some otherwise. In my estimation, 'An Adventure in the Fourth Dimension' is very good; 'The Autobiography of a Blue Ghost' is otherwise.
"You will be pleased to know, Mr. Baird, that W. T. is still going strong on board the Yumuri. Still does some good too! Several of the boys have given up the drinking of Mexican 'white mule,' claiming that there is more real excitement found between the covers of W. T. . . . A manager of a so-called 'soft drink' establishment on Rampart
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