1917: Member of National Y. M. C. A. War Work Council.

1917: State chairman for Pennsylvania of Y. M. C. A. War Work
Council.

1918: Member of Executive Committee and chairman of Publicity
Committee, Philadelphia War Chest.

1918: Chairman of Philadelphia Y. M. C. A. Recruiting Committee.

1918: State chairman for Pennsylvania of United War Work
Campaign.

1918: August-November: visited the battle-fronts in France as
guest of the British Government.

1918: September 22: Relinquished editorship of _The Ladies'
Home Journal_, completing thirty years of service.

1920: September 20: Upon the 50th anniversary of arrival in
the United States, published _The Americanization of
Edward Bok_.

1921: May 30: Awarded the one thousand dollar Joseph Pulitzer
Prize for _The Americanization of Edward Bok_.

THE EXPRESSION OF A PERSONAL PLEASURE

I cannot close this record of a boy's development without an attempt to
suggest the sense of deep personal pleasure which I feel that the
imprint on the title-page of this book should be that of the publishing
house which, thirty-six years ago, I entered as stenographer. It was
there I received my start; it was there I laid the foundation of that
future career then so hidden from me. The happiest days of my young
manhood were spent in the employ of this house; I there began
friendships which have grown closer with each passing year. And one of
my deepest sources of satisfaction is, that during all the thirty-one
years which have followed my resignation from the Scribner house, it
has been my good fortune to hold the friendship, and, as I have been
led to believe, the respect of my former employers. That they should
now be my publishers demonstrates, in a striking manner, the curious
turning of the wheel of time, and gives me a sense of gratification
difficult of expression.

Edward W. Bok

INDEX

Abbey, Edwin A., 138
Abbott, Lyman, 144, 169
Adams, Charles F., 52
Adams, John, 52
Adams, John Quincy, 52
Addams, Jane, 168
_Adriatic_, 174
Alcott, Louisa, 46-51
Altman Collection, 139
American Lithographic Co., 24
_American Magazine_, 68
Antin, Mary, v
Appleton's _Encyclopaedia_, 15, 16, 29

Bakery shop, 9
Bangs, John Kendrick, 130
Baruch, Bernard, 173
Beaverbrook, Lord, 174
Beecher, Henry Ward, 55, 70-77
Bell, Alexander Graham, 15