Keen to Cushing

nice expression of quandary of the book editor “when e.g. a chapter of 20 pp. (assigned) reaches him expanded to 70 & one of 80 pp. to 196!” (Fulton, 269). Cf. Minot, on his student’s papers: “Look here, you can do better than that! Take it home and read it to your wife, and you will see how to make it read smoother and easier. I am sure that you can cut out some of the words to shorten and sweeten the whole thing” (Rackemann, 249, 247).