Taking and Making

In the advertising pages of recent issues of the Atlantic there have been expressions of readiness on the part of our Educational Department to consider suggestions that may lead to the publication of new books. The state of mind revealed in these declarations is shared by the entire editorial staff of the office. The three magazines that proceed from it, and all the list of general books, owe much to the suggestions of our friends and fellow workers. We venture to hope that our own capacity to make suggestions has also played a beneficent part in our diverse undertakings. Is it not after all a fact that the mental ground in which suggestions are sown is apt to be unproductive unless it is constantly loosened and refreshed by stirrings of its own? We bare our breasts, then, to suggestions, yet without relinquishing the right to fling back shafts of our own.