Books in June

ATLANTIC SHOP-TALK

IT is a part of the irony of things that in the month when schools and colleges are for the most part closing their doors, and members of the younger generation are closing their books, their elders are giving serious thought to the books which must be opened in September. The makers of these books — writers, printers, and publishers — have been thinking about them for many months before. The processes of their production, from inception as mere ideas to completion as physical objects of paper, print, and binding, are necessarily deliberate and almost noiseless. At last comes the moment to speak about them; and with its coming the place of honor in this month’s Shop-Talk is devoted to the new books for school and college issued by the Atlantic Monthly Press.