TO OUR READERS
Glinda the Good, lovely Sorceress of the Land of Oz and friend ofPrincess Ozma and Dorothy, has lots of personal acquaintances who wantto know more about her. So, in the new Oz story, Mr. L. Frank Baum,Royal Historian of Oz, has written a whole book about how Glinda andthe Wizard worked with all their might to save the Princess andDorothy from the dire dangers which threatened them when they wentamong the warring tribes of the Flatheads and Skeezers.
The wicked Queen Coo-ee-oh, a vain and evil witch, was really to blamefor all the trouble. She surely succeeded in getting every one on themagic, glass-domed island of the Skeezers into amazing difficulties.When Mr. Baum tells you how worried everybody in the Land of Oz feltabout the Princess Ozma and Dorothy and what wonderful sorcery Glindahad to perform to save them, you'll be thrilled with excitement andadmiration. He reveals the most hidden mysteries of magic.
Mr. Baum did his best to answer all the letters from his smallearth-friends before he had to leave them, but he couldn't answerquite all, for there were very many. In May, nineteen hundrednineteen, he went away to take his stories to the little child-soulswho had lived here too long ago to read the Oz stories for themselves.
We are sorry he could not stay here and we are sad to tell you this ishis last complete story. But he left some unfinished notes about thePrincess Ozma and Dorothy and the Oz people and we promise that someday we will put them all together like a picture puzzle and give youmore stories of the wonderful Land of Oz.
Cordially, your friends,