I've ever read-very amusing to have the sofamiliar expressions in print. The only one I didn't know was "seafood," which is perhaps a local West Coast idiom. Anyway, I could just hear her rattling on breathlessly! It was a very good job.

Gentlemen:

Miss E.

New York, N. Y.

I must give top billing to "The Junk Dealer." I've not read all the books in the field, so perhaps I've missed other examples of the queen's queen's wonderfully picturesque language. It has a flavor all its own. I can imitate neither the phrasing nor the inflection, but I could hear in that story echoes of voices and conversations I've overheard in bars. Combined with the language was a portrait of believable honesty and both are very welcome.

Dear ONE:

Mr. G.

Allentown, Pennsylvania

Congratulations on what is surely the most professionally top-drawer story ONE has ever printed. In fact it's so flawlessly perfect one might suspect that the author is a famed novelist, whose near-bestseller latest work is in both hardcover and paperback. Will discretion permit an editorial aye or nay? (Editor's Note: For biographical notice concerning K. O. Neal see "About Our Authors," January, 1958).

I was immensely gratified to find that you devoted four pages (March, 1960) to my digest of Leucippe and Clitophon so that I hardly minded the lack of credit line. Although you did a superb job with correct transcription and proof-reading on the many technical items, there were three errors which I think are worth noting: (1) Publication of the Bohn Library edition was of course 1855, not 1955; (2) At the beginning of Menelaus' homosexual propaganda speech the line should read, "youths are much more open and free from affectation than women," not affection; (3) In that Greek footnote, the word meaning either soft or slimy is hygroteti and not lygroteti-there happens to be a word like the latter, meaning gloomy or mournful.

Noel I. Garde New York, N. Y.

THE BERGLER BROUHAHA

Dear ONE:

Before mentioning Bergler (ooh what a slob!), it may just be ignorance on my

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part but I think J. P. Starr (February, 1960) is fighting a lost battle, and why should anyone want to win it? I also think Arthur Sartoris must have a perverted outlook on life. He seems to advocate leading one's life as though it were one big daisy-chain. It is not!

Harry Otis cannot be beaten. How I loved his story about Edna St. Vincent Millay, my favorite poet. I believe Mr. Otis to be a man of unfathomable brilliance and human understanding.

And now, ten thousand praises to W. Dorr Legg for his wonderful blast at that menace to all humanity, Dr. Bergler. My heartfelt thanks to you all for just existing as you do.

Dear Editors:

Mr. Y.

Kansas

Your attack on Dr. Bergler and his book 1000 Homosexuals was marvellous, and I say bravo, more power to you. My son is Gay. I read his ONE from cover to cover and I must commend you people on the worthwhile, constructive material contained in those pages. You are doing a wonderful job promoting better relations between the Gay people themselves and with the Straight world.

I have only read Dr. Bergler's book halfway through, but couldn't wait to finish it before writing you. He must have had some terrible experience himself which has caused him to try to even the score for himself by drilling it into the Gay people that they are masochists and other negative nonsense that is so false. He approaches his patients in such a negative, brutal way.

Have you any suggestions as to how I as a Mother and a friend of Gay people could go about helping to expose and get rid of this terribly dangerous man, Dr. Bergler? I have even lost sleep over this.

Dear Sir:

Mrs. S.

Kansas City, Missouri

According to Dr. Bergler your world is a house of cards. It is doubtful if you can produce a genius to substantiate your claims. You will need one, for homosexuality has long been equated equated with negation. Your heroes are Plato, Socrates and others of the esoteric Hellenists. I have long felt that the higher esoteric teachings, which are a true image of divine love, go beyond the mundane approach to this subject.

Mr. G.

Los Angeles, California