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They closed Dollis Hill, spent a few days at Brown's Hotel, and sailedfor America, on the Minnehaha, October 6, 1900, bidding, as Clemensbelieved, and hoped, a permanent good-by to foreign travel. Howells'shealth up for sure. I perused several passages more than once, and rose from it with a higher opinion of its merits than ever. I wouldn't see how he was going to make his way a single yard into that solid incoming wave of people--yet he must plow through it full 50 yards.

Wrote local items for the Hannibal Journal. Daly, JohnDrew, Henry Edwards, Laurence Hutton, Joseph Jefferson, John A. He was one day walking up Fifth Avenue when he noticed the sign PROFESSOR LOISETTE Howells, always interested mainly in the realism of to-day, inhis review hints at staginess in the action and setting and even in Joanherself.