. The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six . Longfei,i,ow LowKLr, House. LONGFELLOW AND LOWELL. 69 struction as faultlessly accurate as his handwriting was unmis-takably legible. It requires a somewhat older memory to recallthe courtly presence of Charles Folsom, who well deserved theEnglish title of corrector of the press, but whose chastening forthe time seemed scarcely joyous to the printer as he waitedimpatiently for the proof-sheets which Mr. Folsom carriedaround in his pocket till he could, after long search in thelibraries of the neighborhood, relieve them of possible er
. The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six . Longfei,i,ow LowKLr, House. LONGFELLOW AND LOWELL. 69 struction as faultlessly accurate as his handwriting was unmis-takably legible. It requires a somewhat older memory to recallthe courtly presence of Charles Folsom, who well deserved theEnglish title of corrector of the press, but whose chastening forthe time seemed scarcely joyous to the printer as he waitedimpatiently for the proof-sheets which Mr. Folsom carriedaround in his pocket till he could, after long search in thelibraries of the neighborhood, relieve them of possible errors ofstatement. Of the same indefatigable temper in exorcising theblack art was George Nichols, for whose aid Lowell stipulatedwhen he undertook to edit The Atlantic Monthly. It wouldbe hard to overestimate the value of these two subterraneanbuilders of literature. Their own craft recognized their power;every author whose books passed through their hands blessedthem, with occasional lapses, and the reputation which the greatprinting-offices of Cambridge enjoy is due
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