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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 a
formidable job for a young man of twenty-odd years. By royal
proclamation he was made mayor of the island, and within a year, a
court of law being established, the young attorney was appointed judge;
and in that dual capacity he "cleaned up" the island.
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