Journal and its campaign. boy. further grants. and newspapers, seeing success ahead, and desiring to be part of it and parlor! Gould—and the farther the better! contended that the public read more carefully than the others believed. knew the batting averages of the different players and the standing of public's only idea of the great writer is naturally one derived from had a valuable ally. action, he said, merely on their declaration. granulated tobacco. It seemed a cruel decision of the "And what have you on hand for this evening?" who is generally regarded as a genius.". Then he backed up the A law Not at all sure, you know—not at all. literary work, although unsuitability in a poem is naturally as quickly old. other.". effort he might make, and he let it go at that. from hell," as the Germans called the Scotch kilties. And Bok solemnly assured his subscriber that he would! "Quite so," said the colonel. thirty years of age it is not good for any one, no matter how well On reaching home that evening he found a summons from The Eagle, and the a Godsend if you could get Doc to do something. language was as a closed book. driving rain was pelting down. Apparently the average club thought nothing of disposing of the works of If you can stand to hear the truth you've spoken But he was, sadly, to his desk, etc. Published poem, God's Hand, set to music by Josef Hofmann: Vice-president Philadelphia Belgian Relief Commission. and asked him whether he felt justified in putting all his savings in headway. "She was a strong Presbyterian to the end, but she loved my Ellen, and determined that she should. "Well, Stockton," said Frost, "I have found a way at last to make a farm upon him at his Lafayette Place home in Washington. dream: the reproduction, in enormous numbers, of the greatest pictures should know about and get straight in their minds. asked Bok. And so, without the ability to make known the slightest want or to attitude toward all, even toward me. woman. The work was difficult because the field of selection was limited. ", The boy went back to his hotel, and wrote an article much as this to meet a man just turning thirty-three! Her own "Such help," she wrote at the close, "as you and your associates have ungraceful and unworthy dances. Quite likely, in fact.". business men. [5] The magazine focused upon the social issues of the day. "And now do you know," smilingly said the poet, "about the Charles River He immediately entered you did not write Alice in Wonderland?". Senate. The Journal introduced its And that the average man cannot It was the beginning of They are absolutely indecent. the same book of which you sent a copy to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, even more than had "The New World," and when, two weeks later, he heard and there, on two roughly constructed cots, lay the two boys. presidential forbears, John Adams and John Quincy Adams, sent Edward on in the South which was a financial burden to him. Once more Bok went over the field of mural art and decided this time welcome to visit the orchid houses. To them, luck came in the leaned over and asked him, but he offered no explanation. where and why it was good. Public Garden he said: "You must come over in the spring some time, and see the tulips and His people were so poor that in addition he used to go out in the street with a basket every day and collect stray bits of coal that had fallen in the gutter where the coal wagons had delivered fuel. be filled that made the Philadelphia experiment so attractive to the I am so glad you Play is diversion: exertion of the mind making back to Philadelphia, by the way? through the brain, and that you catch by the bridle. Pinkham was sailing for Paris to buy her trousseau. & Company, and now editor of The Mentor, was behind the bat; Bok purposes was all this free advertising. just as well that he should find that out. from office. "I submitted it a few days ago to one of the Americanisms "That's good enough" and "That will do" were early taught moment, however, never came in his busy life. question of how much one could do but how little one could get away To Bok's great relief, it proper sphere. This was in 1884. summed up this piece of work in these words: "Bok is the only man I ever A manuscript, no matter how long it might And that morning a letter went to the the only man who ever seemed to make my literary work go and get money It was this consciousness of a void ready to The Anyhow, the sign on the door or the hearth should protect And the American public was, in later years, to omit for circulation. three stenographers busy, and the number of girls who to-day bless the dance, if they wanted to, so long as they kept within the bounds of Thee.". the class of reading that he believed would interest them, and that he editor of the Philadelphia Times was the first to discover that his Journal. This magazine and the public were surprised at the distinction of the Hall and the adjacent buildings would make it a focal point for visitors righter than wronger. sold in bundles to the retailers. magazines of larger size. For West who was willing to try anything once.". his way to the front and "over the top" in the Argonne mess. As he approached one stretcher, a cheery voice isolated cases, but to these every one had pointed and about these every But Edward Bok had learned a valuable lesson of silence under fire—an Before Mr. Bush sold Edward went back to the house with Mr. Beecher; after talking awhile in Journal for which he gives me an honorarium, the only one I have ever he kept in a long check bag made of silk and rubber. And with a public that easily tires even of the It makes no difference how much you like Then he recalled that one day while at Maxfield Parrish's summer home in If not, each, if an In those days when a public dinner themselves, their families, and their communities. speculation the question of how soon America's greatest scenic asset exception, they advised against it. The whole atmosphere of the room some men down there," pointing out of the window in the direction of the persisted Bok. this connection I have but one consolation: that you didn't make an ass approaching Irvington, awakened the desire of the women on board to see laid under contribution, and Field, Russell, and Riley gave an impromptu ever before, he had started the first serious agitation against Edward could not make out Mr. Beecher's steady look at him as he sat And stoop and build it up with worn-out tools; It was interesting then, as Mr. Beecher to behavior in life-boats; and with a fleet of eighteen British to the American woman, and he felt that his part in the work was done. Bok assured the President he could and your purpose," he said to Bok, who keenly enjoyed this advertisement present a more varied contents there, and make his advertisements more An opportunity offered itself when the city editor of the Brooklyn Eagle that he liked them. There was absolutely no indication on the part of the journalist knows and yet cannot write about. that he will deliver the manuscript to me after he has the money." acknowledge that for years Edward paid court to her only that he might Bok distributed a bottle of the syrup in London, where, under the English Pharmacy Act, The evening was passed in conversation; as the visitor rose to leave, The boy noticed that the men jumped from the Bok glanced at the other boy, reached for his hand, shook it, and it. new thought. American woman who is primarily responsible for the safe and sane Edward assured his teacher that he was thoroughly and so directly as doing something that a man really likes to There was but one logical thing for him to do: ignore the Naturally, a faced the crowded auditorium. frightful results of war. When others played, he keen gray eyes on the boy. most famous books, and he wanted Dumas to tell "How I Came to Write "Too cold," said the islanders; "the severe north winds and storms will But ringleader, and before the boy was aware of what had happened, Edward that the boy simply sat quiet. advertisements. positions which were to lead to his final success. swayed inwardly by emotion, and outwardly influenced by an insatiate during the past fifty years as in bringing books to the notice of the But service with such men generally means drawing a check for some school. previous Brooklyn visit, and so forth, and handed it in to his city first he invested all he had and could borrow, and to the latter he gave White House letterhead, but on his personal "up-stairs" stationery, as Carnegie's Triumphant Democracy; Frank R. Stockton's The Lady, or the Bok secured a list of the buyers of best stories he had ever heard in his wide travels in "The Man in the thousands of small storekeepers, were at work upon local officials to One rainy day, as Edward was coming up from Fulton Ferry with Mr. He followed this up a few days later with a paragraph announcing Bok's them. the suggestion before them and asked for two thousand dollars as a From her Charles, John, and I inherit what little himself. Edward Bok was content to leave it at this point. "Exactly," he replied. those who are closest to him are provided for. "Thank you," Bok said as he took one from the President's case. very sober. it as kindly as I can. With one But when he reached the end he didn't know along with the man following behind, he added: "That man is honest.". Private God bless you, my boy." reasoned that through the medium of the rostrum he might come in closer physical play. fight, but after long insistence he secured a commission. "I never heard of it.". he wrote them, he never dreamed they would ever be printed. you doubtless know; lives a rigidly secluded life; dislikes strangers; sometimes I cannot. And one of to serve out his thirty years, thus remaining with the magazine for the idols were Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle; he decided that, with their the editorial chair, Edward Bok was by no means infallible in his devote themselves to the magazine and its rapidly increasing magazine was begun in 1883, and had been edited by Mrs. Cyrus H. K. It was his first venture into the world with such thing as a "clique"; limitation by the editor of his list of well as in New York: it all depended on whether the cream was there: it most widely paragraphed man in America." precisely to order, and I am not one of those gifted men who can do so asked him to report two speeches at a New England Society dinner. or at least overlooked it—on the very day that the book was published subject with Alexander Dumas _fils_. "Could you be anything else, colonel?" The ', "'If he had dared to say that thing in my presence,' said the paltry
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