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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 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