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One evening some literary men were dining together previous to going to a private house where a number of authors were to give readings from their books. At the table […]

The personnel of the Scribner house was very youthful from the members of the firm clear down the line. It was veritably a house of young men. The story is

Edward Bok does not now remember whether the mental picture had been given him, or whether he had conjured it up for himself; but he certainly was possessed of the

Mr. Beecher’s weekly newspaper “syndicate” letter was not only successful in itself, it made liberal money for the writer and for its two young publishers, but it served to introduce

As a letter-writer, Henry Ward Beecher was a constant wonder. He never wrote a commonplace letter. There was always himself in it — in whatever mood it found him. It

Edward felt that his daytime hours, spent in a publishing atmosphere as stenographer with Henry Holt and Company, were more in line with his editorial duties during the evenings. The

Read Chapter 6 The father of Edward Bok passed away when Edward was eighteen years of age, and it was found that the amount of the small insurance left behind

Read Chapter 5 No one who called at Phillips Brooks’ house was ever told that the master of the house was out when he was in. That was a rule