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GERMINAL IDEA, OR STARTING-POINT. "The ‘Excursion' was written from the humorous delight I have always felt in excursions; it was started merely as humorous description of certain inevitable excursion types. I put the ‘story' into already written appreciations of sartorial and millinery triumphs as demonstrated on any well-developed excursion. " -- _Edwina Stanton Babcock._
CLASSIFICATION. A study in realism, wherein the general picture and all the excursionists are of quite as much importance as the few predominant characters.