The Forerunner Part 157

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"Here is my subscription to The Forerunner--one of the most cheerful purchases I ever made, and certainly a bargain! Success attend your efforts, for they mean _much_ to mankind."

"Let me compliment you on your excellent articles on Androcentric Culture. They contain knowledge combined with so much beauty of expression that they feed and charm the mind alike."

"I hope that The Forerunner will meet all the success it deserves and that it will go to the many men and women who are in sore need of it."

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A FRIENDLY RESPONSE

The editor wishes to acknowledge with cordial thanks the warm response to the appeal to subscribers to "renew, and get another."

They are doing it, quite rapidly, and only three or four--so far--have discontinued. One of these did it twice! Evidently The Forerunner was _non persona grata_ there.

We begin to feel that we have more friends--and warmer ones--than at first appeared.

OUR BOUND VOLUME AS A CHRISTMAS PRESENT

The first year comprises fourteen issues--November, 1909, to December, 1910, inclusive.

In it is the Housekeeping novel--"What Diantha Did"--which will interest many, both men and women. It offers a very practical solution to the Servant Question.

In it is also the Book About Men--"The Man-Made World, or Our Androcentric Culture."

There have been books and books about women--mostly, unpleasant. This is the first one about men, as such; men as distinguished from Human Beings--as women have always been distinguished from Human Beings.