From Athens to St.Joe, from the comedies of Aristophanes to the stockyards and political conventions of Kansas City--the transition may possibly have been an abrupt one, but it is not likely that Page so regarded it.

For books and the personal relation both appealed to him, in almost equal proportions, as essentials to the fully rounded man.

Merely from the standpoint of geography, Page's achievement had been an important one; how many Americans, at the age of twenty-eight, have such an extensive mileage to their credit?
Page had spent his childhood--and his childhood only--in North Carolina; he had passed his youth in Virginia and Maryland; before he was twenty-three he had lived several months in Germany, and, on his return voyage, he had sailed by the white cliffs of England, and, from the deck of his steamer, had caught glimpses of that Isle of Wight which then held his youthful favourite Tennyson.

He had added to these experiences a winter in Kentucky and a sojourn of nearly two years in Missouri.

His Southern trip, to which Page refers in the above, had taken him through Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana; he had visited the West again in 1882, spending a considerable time in all the large cities, Chicago, Omaha, Denver, Leadville, Salt Lake, and from the latter point he had travelled extensively through Mormondom.