A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After

About this eBook

Author

Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930

Credits

E-text prepared by Al Haines

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Dutch Americans -- Biography

Category

Text

eBook-No.

15930

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15930

Release Date

May 28, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A DUTCH BOY FIFTY YEARS AFTER — BY — EDWARD BOK — ADAPTED FROM "THE AMERICANIZATION OF EDWARD BOK" — JOHN LOUIS HANEY, PH.D. — CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS — NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO — 1921 — TO THE SCHOOLBOYS AND SCHOOLGIRLS OF AMERICA I DEDICATE THIS STORY OF A BOY WHO BELIEVED THAT AN OBSTACLE IS NOT SOMETHING TO BE AFRAID OF BUT IS ONLY A DIFFICULTY TO BE OVERCOME AND WHO TOOK FOR HIS MOTTO AS I HOPE EVERY ONE WHO READS THESE PAGES WILL DO THESE LINES BY MADELINE S. BRIDGES: " Give to the world the best you have And the best will come back to you ."
2. 2.INTRODUCTION — CONTENTS — 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
3. 3.AN INTRODUCTION OF TWO PERSONS — A DUTCH BOY FIFTY YEARS AFTER
4. 4.CHAPTER I — THE FIRST DAYS IN AMERICA
5. 5.CHAPTER II — THE FIRST JOB: FIFTY CENTS A WEEK
6. 6.CHAPTER III — THE HUNGER FOR SELF-EDUCATION
7. 7.CHAPTER IV — A PRESIDENTIAL FRIEND AND A BOSTON PILGRIMAGE
8. 8.CHAPTER V — GOING TO THE THEATRE WITH LONGFELLOW
9. 9.CHAPTER VI — PHILLIPS BROOKS'S BOOKS AND EMERSON'S MENTAL MIST
10. 10.CHAPTER VII — A PLUNGE INTO WALL STREET
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII — STARTING A NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE
12. 12.CHAPTER IX — THE FIRST "WOMAN'S PAGE," "LITERARY LEAVES," AND ENTERING SCRIBNER'S
13. 13.CHAPTER X — THE CHANCES FOR SUCCESS
14. 14.CHAPTER XI — LAST YEARS IN NEW YORK
15. 15.CHAPTER XII — SUCCESSFUL EDITORSHIP
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII — BUILDING UP A MAGAZINE
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV — MEETING A REVERSE OR TWO
18. 18.CHAPTER XV — ADVENTURES IN ART AND IN CIVICS
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI — THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S INFLUENCE
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII — THE PRESIDENT AND THE BOY
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII — ADVENTURES IN MUSIC
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX — A WAR MAGAZINE AND WAR ACTIVITIES
23. 23.CHAPTER XX — THE THIRD PERIOD
24. 24.CHAPTER XXI — WHERE AMERICA FELL SHORT WITH ME
25. 25.CHAPTER XXII — WHAT I OWE TO AMERICA
26. 26.EDWARD WILLIAM BOK — BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
27. 27.THE EXPRESSION OF A PERSONAL PLEASURE
28. 28.INDEX

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