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
  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,