Van Dyke
Van Dyke names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Van Dyke HENRY, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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, 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.
Van Dyke JOHN CHARLES, an American art critic
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN CHARLES, an American art critic; born in New Brunswick, N. J., April 21, 1856; was educated at Columbia and Rutgers Colleges; admitted to the bar in 1877; studied art in Europe, and on his return to the United States devoted himself to literary work and to lecturing on art in Rutgers, Harvard, Princeton, and other universities. He was the editor of the "Studio" in 1883-1884, the "Art Review" in 1887- 1888, and the author of "Books and How to Use Them"; "Principles of Art"; "How to Judge a Picture"; "Art for Art's Sake"; "Modern French Masters"; "Nature for Its Own Sake"; "New Guides to Old Masters"; etc.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both men were still living when Collier's wrote this in 1921: Henry van Dyke died in 1933, John Charles Van Dyke in 1932. Collier's lists Henry's sermons and volumes of verse, but almost none of that is read now; what survives is the 1896 Christmas story "The Story of the Other Wise Man" and, above all, his 1907 hymn text "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee," set to the tune from Beethoven's Ninth and still sung weekly in churches worldwide. The art critic's reputation has taken a stranger turn: his 1901 book "The Desert," not mentioned here, is now regarded as a founding work of American desert nature writing, though scholars since the 1990s have argued that he embroidered or invented the solitary desert journeys he claimed to have made. His radical scepticism about Old Master attributions, ridiculed in his own day, looks less eccentric after the late-20th-century winnowing of the Rembrandt canon.
Written for this edition, 2026.