THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1949, Volume II, Number One: Winter, 1949. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. pp. 100. $1.00. 2,000 copies printed. Contents: _A Basic Science-Fiction Library_, by Forrest J. Ackerman, Everett Bleiler, David H. Keller, Sam Merwin Jr., P. Schuyler Miller, Sam Moskowitz, Lewis Padgett, Paul L. Payne, A. Langley Searles, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. Van Vogt, Donald Wandrei / _Avowal_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _The Spring Night_, by Ray Bradbury / _The Case for Science-Fiction_, by Sam Moskowitz / _Dear Pen Pal_, by A. E. Van Vogt / _The Pool in the Wood_, by August Derleth / _Solution of Mind Problems by the Imagination_, by Jules Verne / _The Swallowers of Universes_, by Peter Viereck / _David Henry Keller and the Scientific Novel in the United States_, by Regis Messac / _Time to Rest_, by John Beynon Harris / _Open Sesame!_, by Stephen Grendon / _Travel Talk_, by Vincent Starrett / _The Moon as Goal_, by Everett Bleiler / _Charles Williams’ Novel_, by Edward Wagenknecht / _From the Fan Presses_, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. / _Frank Merriwell on Venus_, by Robert Bloch / _Factual Fantasies_, by Carl Jacobi / _Dr. Keller Again_, by Weaver Wright / _Whimsy and Whamsy_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_. THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1949, Volume II, Number Two: Spring, 1949. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies printed. Contents: _The Root of Ampoi_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _Fragment_, by Vincent Starrett / “_The Mummy!_”, by Everett Bleiler / _Sed Non Satiata_, a poem after Baudelaire, by Clark Ashton Smith / _A Feather from Lucifer’s Wing_, by Foreman Faulconer / _Lovecraft and the Stars_, by E. Hoffman Price / _The Saints of Four-Mile Water_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Technical Slip_, by John Beynon Harris / _The Last American_, by J. A. Mitchell / _Full Circle_, by Vincent Starrett / _The Realm of Redonda_, by August Derleth / “_Gougou_”, by P. Schuyler Miller / _Characterization in Imaginative Literature_, by Jack C. Miske / _Jamesian Spectres_, by August Derleth / _Two Bibliographies_, by Everett Bleiler / _The Devil and Miss Barker_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Christina_, by Joseph L. McNamara / _An Arkham Quartet_, by Edward Wagenknecht / _Messrs. Sturgeon, Williamson & DeCamp_, by August Derleth / _Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_.