Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to or corrective of news previously published in TIME.

Best Sermons

Sirs : For the last two years you have been good enough to give notice that the annual book of "Best Sermons" was in preparation, and the news in your pages brought me many interesting and valuable sermons. I shall be grateful if you will insert the notices again that the volume for 1926 is well under way and will not be closed until the first of June. It is open to sermons of all kinds by men of all communions -- Jew, Gentile, Catholic and Protestant. Only exclusiveness is excluded. Wishing TIME every blessing, JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

Memorial Church of St. Paul Overbrook, Phila.

Difficult

Sirs:

It would, I think, be almost dishonest -- certainly most ungracious -- if I didn't let you know what an amazingly fine job I think you have been doing with TIME. I set aside this last weekend to clean up a lot of work that had accumulated at my home. I started to look over an accumulation of magazines that had piled up, looking mostly for reviews of books and plays. Then I picked up the March 22 issue of TIME, read it through, did the same with the issue of the 29th and April 5. This is a rather difficult letter for me to write, because I've felt on so many occasions out of sympathy with many of the ideas and attitudes of your paper. But it's only fair, I am sure, on my part to let you know that I think it's the best of its kind in existence. HORACE B. LIVERIGHT

New York, N.Y.

Introduction

Sirs:

. . . and most of all, I enjoy your personal glimpses. For instance, after reading your sketch of Mr. Volstead [TiME, March 29, NATIONAL AFFAIRS] I felt that I had met the man and learned just the things that I most wanted to know about him.

J.J. LOWREY

Indian Head, Md.

Dentist

Sirs:

Your medical section reporter seems to have no knowledge of the dental profession (report on Chicago Dental Society meeting) [TIME, Feb. 8]. "D.D.S." means "Doctor of Dental Surgery" and is never accompanied by the title Mr. No dental student looks forward to being a specialist called a dental hygienist -- unless a medical student looks forward to being a trained nurse. A dental hygienist is a young lady having a special one-year course in the proper cleansing of the oral cavity and its contents -- otherwise known as the mouth, gums and teeth. FREDERICK H. HOEFFER, D.D.S.

Reading, Pa.

Let Dentist Hoeffer reread the item. It contains none of the implications he asserts. Many a dental student, male and female, has curtailed his full studies to become a professional of lesser (though allied) rank than a dentist. Some have progressed to become stomatologists. -- ED. "Famed" Praised

Sirs:

I am one of your Original Subscribers and I believe my attitude toward TIME is typical of the old guard. We do not want TIME changed! Since occasional younger fry -- subscribers with only half a dozen copies on the shelf -- delight to flay you, may I draw my quill in your defense ? Some of these nouveaux readers have criticized your repetition of "famed" (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 2). May I state that the old guard likes TIME'S distinctive and original use of "one" and "famed" which you employ before the name of an individual exactly as Baedecker used one or two asterisks to indicate the comparative importance of the objects in an art collection ? Your "famed" and Baedecker's asterisks are simply highly condensed symbols for indicating relationships which could not be otherwise indicated without many wasted words. Those readers who know without being told the relative importance of everything, may surely skim over the asterisk or the "famed" with less pique to their vanity than if a longer expression were used. Those who lack the omniscience just referred to (and I am one) should applaud TIME for having created this concise and effective symbol, which is not to my knowledge used in this way by any other publication. TIME should no more be criticized for not employing a new word whenever "famed" is needed than should a printer be expected to design a new asterisk every time one is called for.

In closing, may I say that such a letter as this should be completely superfluous. All that I have said is evident to most children of ten upon first glancing over TIME. Unfortunately this does not seem to be the case with one or two of your new readers. It is to drown their minority protest that I speak out for the old guard. RAYMOND MACAULAY TREVELIAN

Manila, P. I.

Press-- Herald Flayed

Sirs:

In the social columns of our local morning newspaper, I invariably read that, at Mrs. So-and-so's bridge party, there were six tables "in play."

In captioning photographs of the illustrious, TIME often terms them "able."

Both are equally irritating, but I dislike to admit that TIME has lowered itself to the stereotyped phraseology of a small town daily newspaper.

JOHN W. THOMAS

Portland, Me.

Sailor

Sirs:

I am one of those who laughed heartily when a U. S. Lieutenant wrote you from Balboa (TIME, April 5) to complain that you had referred to a U.S. common sailor as "insignificant" in comparison with H. R. H. the Crown Prince of Sweden [TIME, Feb. 15, SWEDEN].

These saber-rattling gentry must have their joke. I suppose Lieutenant Turner would "point with pride" to the Negro gob who was mauled by Italians for tearing up Italian money while he sang: "She smacks me, she smacks me not!" [TIME, April 12, ITALY.] There's a "significant" U.S. sailor for you I

ESTELLE MAE Wix

(Mrs. Rudolph Wix) Old Point Comfort, Va.

Galusha

Sirs: TIME, March 22, page 5, middle column, near bottom you have Galuchia Coolidge. Only one correct way to spell. It is Galusha. Family started in Shaftesbury, Vt. Elijah Galusha was in furniture business here lor 50 years and his son Henry Galusha was in firm Squires, Sherry & Galusha for 50 years.

A. G. SHERRY Troy, N. Y.

Third Reading

Sirs:

... I am tempted every now and then to send to appreciative friends copies of TIME when I have completed reading an issue. But I lose courage at the last minute. ... I must retain all copies for a second and possible third reading. Many articles possess too much genuine value and interest for a single perusal. So I boost TIME in another way ... in letters.

GEORGE J. JERRARD

Boston, Mass.