CHAPTER IX.
THE FIRST "WOMAN'S PAGE," "LITERARY LEAVES," AND ENTERING SCRIBNER'S Edward had been in the employ of Henry Holt and Company as clerk and stenographer for two years when Mr.Cary sent for him and told him that there was an opening in the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, if he wanted to make a change.

Edward saw at once the larger opportunities possible in a house of the importance of the Scribners, and he immediately placed himself in communication with Mr.Charles Scribner, with the result that in January, 1884, he entered the employ of these publishers as stenographer to the two members of the firm and to Mr.Edward L.Burlingame, literary adviser to the house.

He was to receive a salary of eighteen dollars and thirty-three cents per week, which was then considered a fair wage for stenographic work.

The typewriter had at that time not come into use, and all letters were written in long-hand.

Once more his legible handwriting had secured for him a position.
Edward Bok was now twenty-one years of age.