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P.S. I am reading your "Death in the Woods". I bought it for $1.00 and I got a swell buy. The fact is that you put out a delicious variety of stories in that volume! Some of them are gems. I read all of your stuff except "Mid American Chants" and "Window McPherson's Son". These are hard to get, it seems. I'm not writing anything to flatter you. That's not in my lines. I'm just telling you things. For instance, I am taking a course in Continental Fiction under a certain Dr. Harry Slochower - who has written some books on German Literature. Well, in this course, we study some of the big shots in Europe - Thomas Mann, Boibusse, Proust, Nero, Franz Verfel, Hansen, Gide, France, Dosteisvski, etc. In our syllabus of readings, he has included only two Americans: John Dos Passes "1919" and Sherwood Anderson "Beyond Desire". This teacher is good. He gives us new slants on interpretation: economic, etc. He circulated petitions about the play in New York "Peace on Earth". It was a terrific play. We all saw it. He's all there - this teacher.

I think this fellow Aristotle was a little lopsided when he said all art is imitation. I try