The Meeting at the Spring
Along the old Roman road that crosses the rolling
hills from the upper waters of the Marne to the Meuse,
a soldier of France was passing in the night.
In the broader pools of...
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Writer, minister, critic, professor, outdoorsman--Henry Van Dyke was a man of multiple talents and great energy. As a literary critic he supported the basic tenets of the Genteel Tradition well into t...
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From the opening pages of his first novel, Henry Van Dyke has shown that he is a masterful novelist, an "original" artist with his own voice, his own style, his "language couched in wit and eloquence....
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The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France
Henry Van Dyke