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, Mary Louise Bok, Sieke Gertrude (mother), 1, 99, 100, 106 Bok Syndicate Press, 87, 88 Bok, William (brother), 1, 87 Bok, William Curtis (son), 153-159 Bok, William J.H.

(father), 1, 6, 8, 53, 59, 66 _Book Buyer_, 80 Boston, 31-46 _Boston Globe_, 17 _Boston Journal_, 90 Bourrienne, 100 Boy Scouts, 144, 145 Brewer, Owen W., 97 _Brooklyn Magazine_, 56-59, 68-71 _Brooklyn Eagle_, viii, 11, 17, 26, 53 Brooks, Phillips, 42-46, 57 Burlingame, Edward L., 78, 80 Burnett, Frances H., 84 Bush, Rufus T., 68 Carlyle, Thomas, 48 Carnegie, Andrew, v, 84, 102 Carroll, Lewis, 124-127 Cary, Anna Louise, 56 Cary, Clarence, 59-67, 78.
Chase, William M., xix _Chicago Tribune_, 141 Childs, George W., 18, 106 _Cincinnati Times-Star_, 90 Claflin, H.B., 57 Coghlan, Rose, 53, 54 Colver, Frederic L., 55, 56, 70 Concord, 46-52 Coney Island, 10 _Cosmopolitan Magazine_, 69 Crawford, Marion, 130 Curtis, Cyrus H.K., 103-107, 120-123, 149 Curtis, Mrs.Cyrus H.K., 113, 149, 181 Curtis, Mary Louise, 14, 149, 161, 163 Curtis Publishing Company, 120 Dana, Charles A., 130 Davenport, Fanny, 99, 100 Davis, Jefferson, 22 De Koven, Reginald, 160 Dodgson, Charles L., _see_ Carroll, Lewis Doubleday, Frank M., 80, 81, 97 Doyle, Conan, 130 Early, General Jubal, 17 Edison, Thomas A., 15 Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians, 173 Elkius, George W., 139 Elman, Mischa, 164 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 30, 46-51 _Empress of Asia_, 180 Evarts, William M., 26 Farrar, Canon, 57 Field, Cyrus W., 186 Fifth Avenue Hotel, 18 Fourth of July, 140-142 Freer, Charles L., 139 Frick, Henry C., 139 Fulton Market, 74 Gardner, Mrs.John L., 139 Garfield, James A., 16, 18 Garland, Hamlin, 130 Garrison, William Lloyd, 52 Gerard, James W., 173 Gibbons, Cardinal, 57 Gibson, Charles Dana, 138 _Godey's Lady's Book_, 110 Gould, Jay, 59-67 Grant, Ulysses S., 17-22, 26, 57 Great War, 169-180 Greenaway, Kate, 128-129 Harland, Marion, 57 Harmon, Dudley, 171 Harper and Bros., 12 _Harper's Magazine_, 12 _Harper's Weekly_, 12 _Harper's Young People_, 12 Harris, Joel Chandler, 130 Harrison, Mrs.Burton, 130 Harte, Bret, 129 Hay, Ian, 172 Hayes, Rutherford B., 18, 26-30, 76 Hegeman, Evelyn Lyon, 56 Hitchcock, Ripley, 17 Hodges, Dean, 169 Hofman, Josef, 160-164 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 30-36 Holt, Henry, and Company, 68, 78 Hoover, Herbert, 172, 186 Hope, Anthony, 130 Howells, William Dean, 57, 119, 122, 168 Jerome, Jerome K., 130 Jewett, Sarah Orne, 130 Johnson, Eldridge R., 146 Johnson, John G., 139 Keller, Helen, 169 Kellogg, Clara Louise, 56 King, Horatio, 67 Kipling, Rudyard, 119, 130, 169 Knapp, Joseph P., 24 _Ladies' Home Journal_, 103-107, 113-123, 134, 160, 168-173, 181-185 Lane, Franklin K., 184 Lape, Esther Everett, 184 Lathrop, George P., 90 Lee, Robert E., 17 _Life_, 141 Lincoln, Mrs.Abraham, 22 _Literary Leaves_, 90, 104 Longfellow, Henry W., 17, 30, 37-42 Low, A.A., 28 Low, Seth, 57 Low, Will H., 138 Lynch, Albert, 138 McAdoo, William, 173 Mansfield, Richard, 85 Marchesi, Madame, 160 Mascagni, 160 Merion, 142-146, 149 Merion Civic Association, 143-146 Moffat, William D., 97 Moffat, Yard & Co., 97 Moody, Dwight L., 130 Morgan, J.Pierpont, 139 Moszkowski, 160 Mott, Lucretia, 52 Netherlands, 1, 3, 39, 194 _New York Star_, 90, 101 _New York Sun_, 171 _New York Tribune_, 17 Nightingale, Florence, 127 North, Ernest Dressel, 97 Northcliffe, Viscount, 172 _Outlook, The_, 144 Paderewski, 160 _Peterson's Magazine_, 110 Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 130 Philadelphia Orchestra, 162-167 _Philadelphia Public Ledger_, 17 _Philadelphia Times_, 90, 103 Phillips, Wendell, 42, 43 _Philomathean Review_, 56 Philomathean Society, 55 Plymouth Church, 55, 70 _Plymouth Pulpit_, 56 Porter, Gene Stratton, 169 _Presbyterian Review_, 81 Pulitzer Prize, v Pyle, Howard, 138 _Queen, The_, 1 Raymond, Rossiter W., 57 Riis, Jacob, v Roosevelt, Franklin D., 171 Roosevelt, Theodore, 147-159 Safford, Ray, 97 Sangster, Margaret, 57 Schlicht, Paul J., 69 Scribner, Charles, 78 Scribner's Sons, Charles, 78-86, 106, 213 _Scribner's Magazine_, 80, 81, 97 Sheridan, Philip H., 26, 57 Sherman, William T., 18, 20, 21, 30, 57 Smedley, W.T., 138 Smith, F.Hopkinson, 169 Sousa, John Philip, 160 _South Brooklyn Advocate_, 10 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 82, 83 Stockton, Frank R., 84, 85 Stokowski, Leopold, 163 Strauss, Edouard, 160 Strauss, Richard, 160 Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 160 Taft, Charles P., 139 Taft, William H., 171 Talmage, T.DeWitt, 57 Taylor, W.L., 138 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 17 Thursby, Emma C., 56 Tosti, 160 Twain, Mark, 98, 99, 129 Vanderbilt, William H.,15 Van Dyke, Henry, 169 Van Rensselaer, Alexander, 166 Victor Talking Machine Co., 145 Walker, E.

D., 69 Washington, George, 40 Webster, Jean, 169 Western Union Telegraph Co., 13, 14, 59-67 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 17 Widener, Joseph E., 139 Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 130, 169 Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 87, 88 Wiles, Irving R., 138 Wilkins, Mary E., 130 Wilson, Woodrow, 170 Young Men's Christian Association, 26 ***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A DUTCH BOY FIFTY YEARS AFTER*** ******* This file should be named 15930.txt or 15930.zip ******* This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/9/3/15930 Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed.
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