Their Silver Wedding Journey

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by George Bellows, Childe Hassam and Carl Spitzweg. The Marches, married twenty-five years, take the European tour they could not afford as newlyweds — the ship, the Rhine, Carlsbad, a young couple in trouble whom they cannot help minding about. Howells edited The Atlantic and wrote for Harper's, and was the most powerful literary broker in America...