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ATLANTIC SHOP-TALK

WHEN prophecy gives place to realization some of the topics which have filled these pages are transferred, as it were, from the back-office to the shop-window. Thus it is that several books about which a certain amount of talk has proceeded from this portion of the shop are now heralded in the advertising pages of the magazine. If they were worth talking about in general terms they are worth offering more concretely to the readers for whom they are written. For many of these it should be but a short step from tasting portions of Mr. Lawrence Shaw Mayo’s America of Yesterday as Reflected in the Journal of John Davis Long and The Quare Women by Miss Lucy Furman, in the pages of the Atlantic, to enjoying these books in their entirety; from hearing about Mr. Henry Dwight Sedgwick’s Pro Vita Monastica to becoming possessors of this volume of permanent value and beauty. These earlier spring books will be followed by others of which the circle of Atlantic readers has been made aware and will be duly reminded.

Let us then for the moment leave these volumes to what we believe should be their happy fate, and discourse of other matters. The fact is that, having begun with a magazine, the Atlantic office has something to talk about besides books.