There is no Dian the Beautiful.

There is no world within a world.

Pellucidar is but a realm of your imagination--noth-ing more.

BUT--

The incident of the finding of that buried telegraph instrumentupon the lonely Sahara is little short of uncanny, in view of yourtale of the adventures of David Innes.

I have called it one of the most remarkable coinci-dences inmodern fiction. I called it literature before, but--again pardonmy candor--your tale is not.