Possible Clues:

• Book extract; transit
• Make way for what's so silly in the leaf
• The way young attendant goes around a ship
• Some reading for the journey?
• Spend a long time making the crossing
• Transit - part of book etc
• Section of a literary work
• That's the way Father's a wise man
• Entry of Gladiators ultimately in old man's time
• Make way for Father's wise one