Of course I have not been able to answer most of the letters I have received on the subject. I single yours out because you have had a fall from grace, and I feel guilty of having had something to do with it, by presenting stronger meat than was necessary, in our January number. I have fought on the Executive Committee of the Spelling Board against publishing anything of the English S.S.S.'s proposed improvements, for fear of arousing such prejudice as yours; and yet in our first number, I was insensibly led into, myself, publishing things that looked just as outlandish. As I said at the outset, I hope you feel better since seeing the April-June number, and should be glad to know how you do feel. From his reply: Thank you very much for the courtesy of your letter of 9th April. I was surprised to receive it, as I did not suppose that your multifarious duties would permit you to notice my rather feeble protest. I was somewhat amused that you should think my irritation so extreme as to call for an effort to console me. I am sure I appreciate your attempt to do so. But really, I was not so hard hit as you thought, because I do not expect in my day (I am no longer a young man) to see the champions of "simplified spelling" (some of it seems to me the reverse of "simplified") gain such headway as to materially mar my pleasure in the printed page, for I do not believe you will allow the atrocities of the last few pages of your first number to creep into the delightful essays which render THE UNPOPULAR REVIEW such pleasant and profitable reading.... I do not think any great respect is due the opinion of those who think that a simplified spelling would save a great deal of time among children, for it also seems to have its rules which will present as much difficulty to memorize as do the peculiarities of our present system.... Why _thru_? U does not always have the sound of double _o_--very rarely in fact. Why not _throo_--if the aim is to make the written sign correspond to the sound. Thru suggests _huh_. From our answer: Regarding "thru", you justly say that _u_ does not always have the sound of _oo_. The only sound of _oo_ worthy of respect, with which I have an acquaintance, is in "door" and "floor". The idea of using it to represent a _u_ sound is perhaps the culminating absurdity of our spelling.