12                                    Clara M. Kirk

the "realistic" quality of this "commonplace" journey of four
"ordinary" Americans of 1882. By the time one has enjoyed the
sketch, and smiled over the draw ings, one realizes that "reahstic,"
"commonplace," and "otdinary," in How ells's imagination, were
tinged with a poetic sense of the humor and pathos of the human
voyage, lightly and briefly suggested. The Columbia Library is
fortunate in possessing an illustrated pamphlet concerning the
Marches which few, if any, readers of the Atlantic in the i88o's
ever saw.