The Americanization of Edward Bok 10. Đây là một cuốn sách rất ý nghĩa, dễ đọc và hàm chứa nhiều bài học hay về phong cách sống, về quản trị cuộc đời. Có những bài học có thể áp dụng cho cuộc sống hiện tại của mình. Đặc biệt là câu chuyện kể về việc Edward đã thành công như thế nào khi nỗ lực xây dựng tuần báo The Ladies Home Journal và những bài học về cách tạo dựng cuộc sống cho riêng mình: Hãy đơn giản hóa mọi khó khăn, nghiêm khắc với bản thân, quyết tâm. | and in the interest of the thousands of young people who read his magazine he believed it would be better to minimize all incidents portraying alcoholic drinking or drunkenness. Kipling s story depicted several such scenes so when Bok sent the proofs he suggested that if Kipling could moderate some of these scenes it would be more in line with the policy of the magazine. Bok did not make a special point of the matter leaving it to Kipling s judgment to decide how far he could make such changes and preserve the atmosphere of his story. From this incident arose the widely published story that Bok cabled Kipling asking permission to omit a certain drinking reference and substitute something else whereupon Kipling cabled back Substitute Mellin s Food. As a matter of fact although it is a pity to kill such a clever story no such cable was ever sent and no such reply ever received. As Kipling himself wrote to Bok No I said nothing about Mellin s Food. I wish I had. An American author in London happened to hear of the correspondence between the editor and the author it appealed to his sense of humor and the published story was the result. If it mattered it is possible that Brander Matthews could accurately reveal the originator of the much-published yarn. From Kipling s house Bok went to Tunbridge Wells to visit Mary Anderson the one-time popular American actress who had married Antonio de Navarro and retired from the stage. A goodly number of editors had tried to induce the retired actress to write just as a number of managers had tried to induce her to return to the stage. All had failed. But Bok never accepted the failure of others as a final decision for himself and after two or three visits he persuaded Madame de Navarro to write her reminiscences which he published with marked success in the magazine. The editor was very desirous of securing something for his magazine that would delight children and he hit upon the idea of trying to induce Lewis Carroll to write .
