We have had dreams of the nature of those described by our contributor, and have correlated them with others entirely beyond construction by our own capacities.--EDITOR. CORRESPONDENCE _More Freedom from Hereditary Bias_ 8 State Circle, Annapolis, Md., 9 February, 1918. GENTLEMEN: I have your printed circular of 25 January, with an enclosed bill for a subscription to the UNPOPULAR REVIEW through 1918. I have, perhaps unfortunately, not received the January issue of the review, which you say you sent me. This is no doubt due to my removal from Princeton, New Jersey, and to the lethargic Princeton post-office. I had several reasons for not renewing my subscription. One was a need for economy, and the feeling that I could better do without the UNPOPULAR than without such a periodical as the _New Republic_. Of the two, the UNPOPULAR mirrors much the more closely some of my own convictions and principles; but I find the _New Republic_ indispensable if I am to keep in touch with the aims and purposes of present-day American Liberalism. Another reason I had for not renewing was that the UNPOPULAR, starting its career with the very greatest promise, had, to my humble mind, managed very quickly to run up various side-tracks and blind alleys of opinion, and has since--amiably but with complacency--stuck there. And there I am content to leave it, for in losing reality it has lost life. The lightness of touch which its editor has creditably sought to impart to its contents will not do as a substitute for life. And even that attempt has failed; it has resulted too often in mere pertness or a lumbering buffoonery never agreeable to contemplate, and least of all when invoked in aid of a cause that demands above all earnest conviction and anything but a stupid complacency from its adherents. Yours faithfully, (signed) ROBERT SHAFER. It may be interesting to compare with this a letter from another correspondent with a German name, printed in Number 17. EN CASSEROLE _If We Are Late_ There is every prospect that this number will be out unusually late, on account of the choke-up in transportation. At this writing the printer ought to be at work on the paper, which has already been on the way to him--from Philadelphia to Massachusetts--twenty-six days. We hope our readers will not blame the delay to us, and that their patriotism will cheerfully endure it. _The Kindly and Modest German_ Here are some commonplaces that should be iterated in some shape every time an American organ of opinion goes to press.