Days Off And Other Digressions

Contents Days Off A Holiday in a Vacation His Other Engagement Books that ILoved as a Boy Among the Quantock Hills Between the Lupin and the Laurel LittleRed To... » 

Contents Days Off A Holiday in a Vacation His Other Engagement Books that ILoved as a Boy Among the Quantock Hills Between the Lupin and the Laurel LittleRed Tom Silverhorns Notions about Novels Some Remarks on Gulls Leviathan TheArt of Leaving Off Henry van Dyke 18521933 was an American clergymaneducator and author. He graduated from Princeton in 1873 and from PrincetonTheological Seminary in 1874. He was pastor of the Brick Presbyterian ChurchNew York City 188399 professor of English literature at Princeton 18991923 and U.S. Minister to the Netherlands 191316. Among his popularinspirational writings is the Christmas story The Other Wise Man 1896. AsPresident Wilsons ambassador to the Netherlands from 1913 Van Dyke was afirsthand witness to the outbreak of World War I and its progress and was akey player in the Presidents diplomatic efforts to keep the U.S. out of theconflict. «