. We have made
serious mistakes in the past and our institutions are as yet far from
perfect, but with more of our intellectual leaders accepting the
watchword of altruistic service in the spirit of Mr. Bok's conception,
there can be virtually no limitations to the part that America seems
destined to play in the future.

JOHN L. HANEY

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

PHILADELPHIA

CONTENTS

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

AN INTRODUCTION OF TWO PERSONS

CHAPTER

I. THE FIRST DAYS IN AMERICA

II. THE FIRST JOB: FIFTY CENTS A WEEK

III. THE HUNGER FOR SELF-EDUCATION

IV. A PRESIDENTIAL FRIEND AND A BOSTON PILGRIMAGE

V. GOING TO THE THEATRE WITH LONGFELLOW

VI. PHILLIPS BROOKS'S BOOKS AND EMERSON'S MENTAL MIST

VII. A PLUNGE INTO WALL STREET

VIII. STARTING A NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE

IX. THE FIRST "WOMAN'S PAGE," "LITERARY LEAVES,"
AND ENTERING SCRIBNER'S

X. THE CHANCES FOR SUCCESS

XI. LAST YEARS IN NEW YORK

XII. SUCCESSFUL EDITORSHIP

XIII. BUILDING UP A MAGAZINE

XIV. MEETING A REVERSE OR TWO

XV. ADVENTURES IN ART AND IN CIVICS

XVI. THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S INFLUENCE

XVII. THE PRESIDENT AND THE BOY

XVIII. ADVENTURES IN MUSIC

XIX. A WAR MAGAZINE AND WAR ACTIVITIES

XX. THE THIRD PERIOD

XXI. WHERE AMERICA FELL SHORT WITH ME

XXII. WHAT I OWE TO AMERICA

EDWARD WILLIAM BOK: BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

THE EXPRESSION OF A PERSONAL PLEASURE

ILLUSTRATIONS

Edward W. Bok . . . Frontispiece

Edward Bok at the age of six

Edward Bok's birthplace at Helder, Netherlands

The grandmother

The Dutch grandfather [Transcriber's note: missing from book]

Where Edward Bok is happiest: in his garden

AN INTRODUCTION OF TWO PERSONS

IN WHOSE LIVES ARE FOUND THE SOURCE AND MAINSPRING OF SOME OF THE
EFFORTS OF THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK IN HIS LATER YEARS

Along an island in the North Sea, five miles from the Dutch coast,
stretches a dangerous ledge of rocks that has proved the graveyard of
many a vessel sailing that turbulent sea. On this island once lived a
group of men who, as each vessel was wrecked, looted the vessel and
murdered those of the crew who reached shore. The government of the
Netherlands decided to exterminate the island pirates, and for the job
King William selected a young lawyer at The Hague.

"I want you to clean up that island," was the royal order. It was