An increase in his salary soon told him that he was satisfying his employers, and then, when the new _Scribner's Magazine_ appeared, and a little later Mr.Doubleday was delegated to take charge of the business end of it, Bok himself was placed in charge of the advertising department, with the publishing details of the two periodicals on his hands.
He suddenly found himself directing a stenographer instead of being a stenographer himself.

Evidently his apprentice days were over.

He had, in addition, the charge of sending all the editorial copies of the new books to the press for review, and of keeping a record of those reviews.

This naturally brought to his desk the authors of the house who wished to see how the press received their works.
The study of the writers who were interested in following the press notices of their books, and those who were indifferent to them became a fascinating game to young Bok.

He soon discovered that the greater the author the less he seemed to care about his books once they a were published.