...was tapped, the old wine came forth with a fine bouquet. When Phillips & Sampson consulted Lowell in regard to the editorship of the Atlantic, he said at once: We must get something from Oliver Wendell Holmes . He was Lowell's great discovery and proved to be his best card,--a clear, shining light, and not an ignis fatuus. When the Autocrat of the breakfast table first appeared few were in ...