Successward: A Young Man's Book for Young Men

If a young man will look around him a bit he will find that the most successful men of the day are always the most quiet dressers. Their clothes are never conspicuous; they detract rather than attract attention. It is only the fop of shallow mind who invites attention by his dress. -from In Matters of Dress Edward Bok wielded enormous influence during his three-decade tenure as editor of the Ladies Home Journal a pulpit from which he advocated numerous progressive causes from womens suffrage and environmental preservation to public sex education and pacifism. Here though in this 1895 book written just a few years after he took up the Journals editorship Bok spoke directly to young men about matters of gentlemanliness and good citizenship. Still a young man himself and a highly successful one Bok uses a sympathetic comradely voice-never a stern or strict one-to convey useful advice on how a young man should comport himself in business in romance and in society at large. Its advice that is still relevant today. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Boks Dollars Only and his autobiography The Americanization of Edward Bok. American Pulitzer Prize-winning author EDWARD W. BOK (1863-1930) also wrote Two Persons: An Incident and an Epilogue and America Give Me a Chance among other books.