A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After

by Edward William 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
Bellamy, Edward, 86
Bok, Cary William (son), 67
Bok, Edward William, arrival, 1;
schooldays, 2-7;
house-work, 8-9;
first money earned, 9;
first newspaper work, 11;
self-education, 15-25;
autograph collecting, 16-29;
study of shorthand, 26;
as a reporter, 26-29;
a visit to Boston, 31-46;
a visit to Concord, 46-52;
adventures in the stock-market, 59-67;
in the publishing business, 68-77;
employment with Scribner's, 78-86;
the Bok Syndicate Press, 86-90;
last years in New York, 97-107;
editorship of The Ladies' Home Journal, 103-107;
building up a magazine, 113-123;
visit to Oxford, 124-127;
adventures in art and civics, 134-146;
adventures in music, 160-167;
war time experiences, 168-180;
retirement as editor, 181-185
Bok, Mrs. Edward William, see Curtis, Mary Louise
Bok, Sieke Gertrude (mother), 1, 99, 100, 106
Bok Syndicate Press, 87, 88
Bok, William (brother), 1, 87
Bok, William Curtis (son), 153-159
Bok, William J. H. (father), 1, 6, 8, 53, 59, 66
Book Buyer, 80
Boston, 31-46
Boston Globe, 17
Boston Journal, 90
Bourrienne, 100
Boy Scouts, 144, 145
Brewer, Owen W., 97
Brooklyn Magazine, 56-59, 68-71
Brooklyn Eagle, viii, 11, 17, 26, 53
Brooks, Phillips, 42-46, 57
Burlingame, Edward L., 78, 80
Burnett, Frances H., 84
Bush, Rufus T., 68

Carlyle, Thomas, 48
Carnegie, Andrew, v, 84, 102
Carroll, Lewis, 124-127
Cary, Anna Louise, 56
Cary, Clarence, 59-67, 78.
Chase, William M., xix
Chicago Tribune, 141
Childs, George W., 18, 106
Cincinnati Times-Star, 90
Claflin, H. B., 57
Coghlan, Rose, 53, 54
Colver, Frederic L., 55, 56, 70
Concord, 46-52
Coney Island, 10
Cosmopolitan Magazine, 69
Crawford, Marion, 130
Curtis, Cyrus H. K., 103-107, 120-123, 149
Curtis, Mrs. Cyrus H. K., 113, 149, 181
Curtis, Mary Louise, 14, 149, 161, 163
Curtis Publishing Company, 120