The Forum: Taking Issue

Don’t Overwork the Staff

My humble opinion is do not expand too quickly—you are still in the infancy stage.

Your magazine is well-written and wonderful, but an overworked staff is not productive and may lose the zest for your magazine.

It’s really the staff that is pushing me. See this issue’s Editors’ Page.—H.S.

Reviving the Dead

You have brought life and color to an area of scholarship that has for far too long been quite literally a “dead issue.”

Rude Editor

Kathleen Quinn’s letter regarding the antiquities market addresses a legitimate concern (“Horrified by Antiquities Ads,” The Forum, AO 01:03). Hershel Shanks’s reply takes on the shrill tone of someone protecting advertising interests. Indirectly accusing Ms. Quinn of having false “fuzzy” feelings and of being a “one-note johnny” is rude.