ADVENTURES IN MUSIC One of the misfortunes of Edward Bok's training, which he realized more clearly as time went on, was that music had little or no place in his life.

His mother did not play; and aside from the fact that his father and mother were patrons of the opera during their residence in The Netherlands, the musical atmosphere was lacking in his home.

He realized how welcome an outlet music might be in his now busy life.

So what he lacked himself and realized as a distinct omission in his own life he decided to make possible for others.
_The Ladies' Home Journal_ began to strike a definite musical note.

It first caught the eye and ear of its public by presenting the popular new marches by John Philip Sousa; and when the comic opera of "Robin Hood" became the favorite of the day, it secured all the new compositions by Reginald de Koven.