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Van Dyke (HENRY an American educator)

HENRY, an American educator; born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Nov. 10, 1852; was graduated at Princeton University in 1873, at the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1877, and at Berlin University in 1878; and soon afterward assumed the pastorate of the United Congregational Church in Newport, R. I. He was chosen pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, in New York City in 1883, and continued in that charge till 1900, when he resigned to become Professor of English Literature in Princeton University. He was appointed minister to the Netherlands in 1913, VAN DYKE serving until 1918. President of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1909-10. His publications include: "The Reality of Religion"; "The Poetry of Tennyson"; "The Christ-Child in Art"; "The Builders, and Other Poems"; HENRY VAN DYKE "Fisherman's Luck"; "The Friendly Year"; "Preface to Counsel on Books and Reading"; "The Ruling Passion"; "Grand Canyon, and Other Poems," etc.