Page declared, however, that the Spanish War marked a new period in history; and he endorsed the McKinley Administration, not only in the war itself, but in its consequences, particularly the annexation of the Philippine Islands.
Page greatly enjoyed life in Boston and Cambridge.

The _Atlantic_ was rapidly growing in circulation and in influence, and the new friends that its editor was making were especially to his taste.

He now had a family of four children, three boys and one girl--and their bringing up and education, as he said at this time, constituted his real occupation.
So far as he could see, in the summer of 1899, he was permanently established in life.

But larger events in the publishing world now again pulled him back to New York.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 4: "Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his Youngest Sister." Edited by Charles Townsend Copeland.

Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1899.].