Front matter

E-text prepared by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: Photograph of Edward Bok.]

A DUTCH BOY FIFTY YEARS AFTER

BY

EDWARD BOK

ADAPTED FROM "THE AMERICANIZATION OF EDWARD BOK"

EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

JOHN LOUIS HANEY, PH.D.

PRESIDENT CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL PHILADELPHIA

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO

1921

TO THE SCHOOLBOYS AND SCHOOLGIRLS OF AMERICA I DEDICATE THIS STORY OF A BOY WHO BELIEVED THAT AN OBSTACLE IS NOT SOMETHING TO BE AFRAID OF BUT IS ONLY A DIFFICULTY TO BE OVERCOME AND WHO TOOK FOR HIS MOTTO AS I HOPE EVERY ONE WHO READS THESE PAGES WILL DO THESE LINES BY MADELINE S. BRIDGES: "Give to the world the best you have And the best will come back to you."