VanDyke, 1852-1933 Henry Henry van Dyke Family Papers Page 1 of 9 RBSC HOME LIBRARY HOME UNIVERSITY HOME CONTACT US SEARCH MASC Henry van Dyke Family Papers (C0276) 1694-1963, bulk 1840- 1950s Manuscripts Division Department of Rare Books Henry Jackson van Dyke and Special Collections (1822-1891) Princeton University Library Henry van Dyke (1852-1933) 2003 A Introduction Finding Aid Collection Description Series Descriptions Prepared with Biographical Notes by Box/Folder Listing Barbara Volz Father and son, Henry and Tertius van Dyke Introduction http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/vandyke/ 1/24/2008 Van Dyck Van Dyke tant battles in which he was in chief command, years in New York he also taught Hebrew in his real merits have been generally overlooked. Union Theological Seminary. Returning to Bei- [Some letters and papers in Lib. of Cong.; A Sol- rut in September 1867 he became editor of the dier's Honor with Reminiscences of Major-Gen. Earl mission press of its weekly journal al-Nash- Van Dorn by his Comrades (1902), ed. by E. V. D. Miller G. W. Cullum, Biog. Register of the Officers and rah, and, at the same time, professor of pathology Grads. of the U. S. Military Acad., 3rd ed., vol. II in the medical department of the Syrian Protes- (1891) War of the Rebellion: Official Records (Army) ; R. U. Johnson and C. C. Buel. Battles and tant College, professor of astronomy in the de- Leaders of the Civil War, vols. I-II (1887-88) Con- partment of arts and sciences, and director of federate Military Hist. (1899), vol. VII, ed. by C. A. Evans: A. V. D. Honeyman, The Van Doorn Family the astronomical and meteorological observatory. (1909).] T.M.S. He found time also to carry on medical practice and to write Arabic texts on pathology, chemis- VAN DYCK, CORNELIUS VAN ALEN try, internal medicine, physical diagnosis, and (Aug. I3, 1818-Nov. I3, 1895), Arabic scholar, astronomy. After resigning his professorship in medical missionary, was born at Kinderhook, N. 1883, he practised in the Hospital of St. George Y., the son of Henry L. and Catherine (Van until 1893, meanwhile publishing in Arabic eight Alen) Van Dyck. After preparation at Kinder- volumes of science primers, a popular volume on hook Academy, he attended Jefferson Medical astronomy, and a translation of Mrs. E. R. College in Philadelphia, graduating in 1839. Ap- Charles's Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta pointed a missionary of the American Board of Family (1864). His last work was a translation Commissioners for Foreign Missions he sailed of Lew Wallace's Ben Hur. He was survived from Boston for Syria in January IS40, and in by his wife, two sons, and two daughters. April reached Beirut. After accompanying Wil- Van Dyck played an important part in the liam McClure Thomson [q.v.] on an extensive modern renaissance of Arabic literature by show- tour through northern Syria, he went in July to ing that it was possible to write correct and idio- Jerusalem. In January 1841 he was transferred matic Arabic in style so simple as to be readily to Beirut, where he studied Arabic intensively understood even by the unlearned. Although one under his lifelong friend Butrus al-Bustäni, the of the great pioneer missionary physicians, he lexicographer, Nasif al-Yazijl, a poet of distinc- is remembered chiefly for his extraordinary mas- tion, and Yusuf al-Asir, a Moslem mufti. A tery of Arabic, and his intimate understanding tenacious memory and natural linguistic ability of the people among whom he worked with SO enabled him to acquire rapidly a thorough knowl- complete a lack of offensive condescension that edge of both speech and literature. On Dec. 23, Lebanese and Syrians adopted him as one of 1842, he married Julia, daughter of Peter Ab- themselves. bott, formerly British consul general in Beirut, [Sources include H. H. Jessup, Fifty-three Years in and in June of the following year moved to 'Abeih Syria (1910) H. A. Kelly, A Cyc. of Am. Medic. Biog. in the Lebanon, where he and Dr. Thomson con- (2 vols., 1912) ; E. T. Corwin, A Manual of the Re- formed Church in America (1902) obituary in Times ducted a high school for boys. During the suc- (London), Nov. 28, 1895; information furnished by ceeding six years he prepared Arabic textbooks W. T. Van Dyck, of Beirut, Syria, a son. Van Dyck's Arabic publications are listed in Edward Van Dyck, on geography, na igation, natural history, alge- Iktifa' al-Qan bima Huwa Matb (Cairo, 1897), and bra, geometry, and plane and spherical trig- in J. E. Sarkis, Mu 'jam al-Matb at al 'Arabiyah onometry. These books, later revised, long con- wal-Mu 'arrabah (Cairo, 1928).] W.L.W.,Jr. tinued in general use. His geography of Syria VAN DYKE, HENRY (Nov. IO, 1852-Apr. and neighboring regions, full of apt quotations 10, 1933), poet, preacher, author, university from classical Arabic travelers and geographers, teacher, diplomat, was born in Germantown, Pa., had an especially wide popularity. Meanwhile where his father, Henry Jackson van Dyke, was he was studying theology, and on Jan. 14, 1846, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. His was ordained by the mission. ancestry in the direct male line was derived from Three years later he was transferred to Sidon, Jan Thomasse van Dyke, the first magistrate of his headquarters for extensive medical and New Utrecht, Long Island, who emigrated to preaching tours until November 1857, when he America in 1652. His grandfather was a well- moved to Beirut to continue the translation of known physician and a graduate of Princeton. the Bible into Arabic which had been begun in His mother, Henrietta Ashmead, belonged to an 1848 by Eli Smith [q.v.]. Working in close co- old and distinguished Germantown family. The %operation with the ablest native and European elder Van Dyke having accepted a call to Brook- scholars, he completed the work in 1865 and lyn the year after his son's birth, most of Henry's at once proceeded to America to supervise the boyhood was spent in Brooklyn and New York, preparation of electrotype plates. During his two where his father was prominent in the councils I 86 e Van Dyke Van Dyke taught Hebrew in of the Presbyterian Church. Preparing at the (appointment confirmed, June 27, 1913). Find- Returning to Bei- Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, he took the de- ing it impossible to reconcile his ardent convic- ame editor of the gree of A.B. at Princeton in 1873 and graduated tion of the right of the allied cause with his duties journal al-Nash- from the Princeton Theological Seminary in as minister in a neutral country, he resigned on essor of pathology 1877. The following year was spent in study at Sept. 6, 1916. On his way home in 1917 he vis- he Syrian Protes- Berlin and travel abroad. His first pastorate ited the battle fronts in France, received the de- onomy in the de- was at the United Congregational Church, New- gree of D.C.L. at Oxford, and, having volun- and director of port, R. (1879-83). On Dec. I3, 1881, he was teered for active service in the United States gical observatory. married to Ellen Reid of Baltimore, Md. From Navy, he was appointed lieutenant commander 1 medical practice 1883 to 1899 he was minister of the Brick Pres- in the Chaplain Corps. He was active in arous- athology, chemis- byterian Church in New York, returning for ing public opinion in favor of a vigorous prose- al diagnosis, and brief periods in 1902 and I9II. In 1884 ap- cution of the war and in the formation of a league S professorship in peared his first book, The Reality of Religion; to enforce peace, of which he was one of the ital of St. George in 1889, The Poetry of Tennyson, revised and original advocates. In 1919 the cross of a com- ig in Arabic eight enlarged in later editions; in 1896, The Gospel mander of the Legion of Honor was conferred opular volume on for an Age of Doubt, being the Lyman Beecher on him by the French government. He returned of Mrs. E. R. lectures at Yale. Two of his most popular books in 1919 to his Princeton professorship, retiring Schönberg-Cotta of outdoor essays belong to this period, Little in 1923. He was professor emeritus until his was a translation Rivers (1895), Fisherman's Luck (1899). His death, and until 1929 he delivered annually a se- He was survived The Story of the Other Wise Man (1896) and ries of university literary lectures to crowded daughters. The First Christmas Tree (1897) were first read audiences. In 1931 he celebrated his golden wed- tant part in the at the Brick Church as Christmas sermons. In ding. After a brief illness he died Apr. IO. at terature by show- 1899 he accepted a call to Princeton University dawn, in his home at Avalon in his eighty-first correct and idio- as Murray Professor of English Literature, the year. He was survived by his wife and five of e as to be readily chair having been endowed for him in memory their nine children. ed. Although one of Dr. James O. Murray [q.v.] his predecessor A religious leader whose influence extended y physicians, he at the Brick Church and at Princeton. In 1900 far beyond the pale of his own church, an in- traordinary mas- he moved to Avalon, his Princeton home for the spiring teacher of college youth, a writer of out- te understanding remainder of his life. In the foreword to his col- door essays and short stories in prose of classic worked with SO lected works (17 vols., 1920-22), he wrote: purity, of musical verse in the Victorian tradi- indescension that "This edition is named after the old house where tion, a sympathetic interpreter of Tennyson, an I him as one of I live. It is a pleasant camp,-this Avalon, influential moulder of public opinion, a fervent with big friendly trees around it, and an ancient patriot, he crowded into a single life an achieve- ifty-three Years in garden behind it, and memories of the American ment astonishing for its versatility and compe- Am. Medic. Biog. Revolution built into its walls and the gray tow- tence of execution. He was not only an eloquent Manual of the Re- obituary in Times ers of Princeton University just beyond the tree- preacher but an organizer of institutional activi- ation furnished by tops." The period 1900-1914 was one of abundant ties, making the Brick Church a center of civic a son. Van Dyck's ddard Van Dyck, literary productivity. In volumes of poems, es- consciousness and a power in the fight against (Cairo, 1897), and says, stories, travel-sketches, and literary criti- political corruption. In the doctrinal contro- is at al 'Arabiyah cism, he shared with an ever-widening circle of versies that shook the Presbyterian Church he W., Jr. readers the delights of his fishing-trips to Canada was a valiant champion of a positive evangelical J. IO, 1852-Apr. during vacations, his travels abroad, his human Christianity, defending it against a materialistic thor, university interest in people of all sorts and conditions, as and rationalistic philosophy on the left and a ermantown, Pa., well as the fruits of study and meditation in his hard and dogmatic Calvinism on the right. In 1 van Dyke, was library among companionable books. Among his an address before the New York Presbytery in Church. His stories and romances are The Ruling Passion (1890), "Is This Calvinism or Christianity," he vas derived from (1901), The Blue Flower (1902), The Unknown repudiated the doctrine of reprobation as "meas- 'st magistrate of Quantity (1912) among his essays, Days Off uring the mind of God by the logic of the seven- 10 emigrated to (1907) and Out of Doors in the Holy Land teenth century"; "The Bible as It Is," in His- her was a well- (1908). In 1908-09 he was lecturer at the Sor- toric Presbyterianism (1893), is a plea for te of Princeton. bonne, the lectures appearing as The Spirit of liberty of investigation. His "A Plea for Peace belonged to an America (1910) and in French as Le Génie de and Work" (1893) was signed by about 235 wn family. The l'Amérique (1909). Presbyterian ministers, and he was a member of a call to Brook- In 1912 he was elected president of the Na- the original committee appointed by the modera- most of Henry's tional Institute of Arts and Letters, and in the tor of the General Assembly, 1900, to consider and New York, following year President Wilson appointed him the restatement of doctrine. The "Brief State- in the councils minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg ment of the Reformed Faith" was adopted by an 187 Van Dyke Van Dyke overwhelming vote by the General Assembly of than a D.D. from a learned University." He was 1902 (see Outlook, May 3I, 1902, p. 299), and devoted to his father, to his brother Paul [q.v.], his election as moderator was a recognition of and to his own family, of whose life his daughter his leadership in the movement for revision. Brooke has given a charming picture. In poli- Perhaps his most lasting contribution to his tics a Democrat, he was on intimate terms of church was his work as chairman of the com- friendship with Grover Cleveland and Woodrow mittee on The Book of Common Worship, com- Wilson, and he always enjoyed the good fel- pleted only two years before his death, in which lowship of meetings with literary friends like his own deeply devout spirit, his sense of form, Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, and Ham- his loyalty to the faith of his fathers, and his ilton Mabie. To younger aspirants for literary literary taste contributed to produce a devotional honors, especially his Princeton students, he manual rich with the treasures of Christian ex- gave generous encouragement. The vivid char- perience. acter portrait by Maxwell Struthers Burt in The Versatility marks the work of Henry van Van Dyke Book (1920 ed.) reveals the impres- Dyke in the field of letters. His outdoor essays sion he made on a discriminating novelist and are in the main stream of the American tradition poet of a younger generation. He called himself of Thoreau, Burroughs, Muir, though his inter- an adventurous conservative, and this sums up est in human character and his deep religious his essential quality as man and writer. faith, always part of his delight in nature, give [Who's Who in America, 1932-33; Tertius van them a quality of their own. Of his poem, "God Dyke, Henry Van Dyke, a Biog. (1935) The Van of the Open Air," he said: "It best expresses Dyke Book (1905; rev. ed., 1920), ed. by Edwin Mims. with a biog. sketch by Brooke van Dyke ; Shepherd me." He was an ardent angler, and his skill as Knapp. A Hist. of the Brick Presbyt. Church in the City a fisherman was excelled only by his skill as a of N. Y. (1909) F. H. Law, Modern Great Americans (1926) M. J. Gilley, "Lit. Works of Henry van Dyke." narrator of his fisherman's luck. He was as par- 1923, master's thesis, Columbia Univ. Outlook, May ticular in the choice of the right word as in the I, 1897; Suburban Life, May 1908 "Book-News," May 1906, pub. by Wanamaker's Phila.; Princeton choice of the right fly, and he could cast as un- Alumni Weekly, May 5, 19, July 3, 1933 obituary in erringly in the pools of fancy as in the pools N. Y. Times, Apr. II, 1933 personal reminiscences.] where the brook-trout lurked. The sketches and stories of his French-Canadian guides and friends VAN DYKE, JOHN CHARLES (Apr. 21. are among his best. In them he avoids the sen- 1856-Dec. 5, 1932), art critic and librarian, was timentality and tendency to preach into which born at New Brunswick, N. J., a descendant of the warmth of his heart and the fervor of his Jan Thomasse van Dyke who emigrated from convictions sometimes led him. His The Story the Netherlands to New Amsterdam in 1652. of the Other Wise Man has been translated into His father, John Van Dyke, served in Congress all European and several Oriental languages, and and as justice of the supreme court of New Jer- remains his best-known tale. The two volumes sey. His mother, Mary Dix Strong, was the of verse in the Avalon edition contain nature daughter of Prof. Theodore Strong [q.v.]. The lyrics, patriotic songs, hymns, odes, narrative family moved to Minnesota in 1868, and John verse, and a Biblical drama. He is always clear added to the conventional education which he and melodious, and, though facile, he had the received from tutors that of a hard-riding and conscientious craftsman's contempt for slipshod straight-shooting plainsman. After study in the work. Changing standards of taste, the reaction Columbia Law School, he was in 1877 admitted against the Victorians, the rise of a critical real- to the bar, but never practised. Returning in ism that challenged the "genteel tradition" have 1878 to his native New Brunswick, he served diminished the literary prestige of most of Van first as assistant librarian of the Gardner A. Dyke's contemporaries, and from this diminution Sage Library, New Brunswick Theological his own work has not escaped, but when all Seminary, and then (1886) as librarian. a po- reservations are made, his place in American let- sition which he held until his death. From the ters is secure as master of a lucid style exquisite- vantage point of his librarianship, with its rela- ly adapted to its end. tively easy duties and long vacations, he pursued At the root of his nature was a love of the personal studies in art which bore fruit in nu- genuine and simple. The academician in his merous books, mostly of a popular and interpre- robes of office, the diplomat in silk hat and black tative sort, which were widely read and influ- cape, the Oxford D.C.L. in his gown of crimson, ential His criticism was urbane, sensitive, free he was most at home in his flannel shirt, felt hat, from eccentricity. In a perhaps excessive avoid- and wading boots, and declared: "The good word ance of overstatement it recalls the contemporary of a plain fisherman or hunter is worth more literary criticism of William Dean Howells. In I 88 van Dyke, Henry. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 Page 1 of 2 ROM LANCÔME BOOKS ***** 1 amazon.com CLICK TO SHO: Bartleby.com Reference Verse Fiction Nonfiction Great Books Online Search Columbia Encyclopedia Go Home Subjects Titles Authors Encyclopedia Dictionary Thesaurus Quotations English Usage Reference > Columbia Encyclopedia See also: van Dyke Quotations PREVIOUS NEXT CONTENTS . INDEX . GUIDE . BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. van Dyke, Henry 1852-1933, American clergyman, educator, and author, b. Germantown, Pa., grad. Princeton, 1873, and Princeton Theological Seminary, 1874. He was pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City (1883-99), professor of English literature at Princeton (1899-1923), and U.S. minister to the Netherlands (1913-16). Among his popular inspirational writings is the Christmas story The Other Wise Man (1896). The themes of his sermons are also expressed in his poetry and the essays collected in Little Rivers (1895) and Fisherman's Luck (1899). He translated (1902) The Blue Flower of Novalis. See biography by his son, Tertius van Dyke (1935). 2 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2003 Columbia University Press. http://www.bartleby.com/65/e-/E-vanDyke.htm) 1/14/2004 Harpers New Monthly Nagazine July 1885. dp. 217-27-1200 Henry J. Van Dyhe Jr. V.1.71, # 422 AMPERSAND. T HERE are many people in the world ourselves. We feel a certain proprietor- who profess to love Nature. But if ship in them. It pleases our sense of you inquire somewhat closely you shall originality to find that we do not need a find that, for the most part, they love her hand-board or a guide-book to tell us when at a distance, and when they have nothing to admire. And does not every man owe better to engage their affections. I shall something to his sense of originality? never forget the German gentleman whom In brief, then, I prefer the by-way to I met on the top of the Schneekopf, in the highway. On principle, not in a lax, the Thüringerwald. At first sight of the immoral way, but on the soundest and lovely view he went into a guttural con- most reasonable grounds, I love digres- vulsion of ecstasy, "Ach! wie wunder- sions-in books, in sermons, and in jour- schön !"-which lasted just fifty-three sec- neys; and to tell the truth, I am digressing onds: and the rest of the time he was ab- now. The gentle reader would recall the sorbed in the contemplation of sandwiches wandering pen, and pray to be told what and beer. It did seem to me that he could Ampersand is.) have thus employed himself with less trou- It is a mountain. It is a lake. It is ble at the foot of the mountain, but per- a stream. The mountain stands in the haps also with less appetite. And, after heart of the Adiroudack country, just near all, his passion for the beautiful may have enough to the thoroughfare of travel for been sincere; for it is a well-known fact thousands of people to see it every year, that even the truest love is subject to and just far enough away from the beat- pains of hunger. en track to be unvisited except by a very But my own test for the right lover of few of the wise ones who love to digress. Nature is a very simple one. He must Behind the mountam is the lake, which be one who in making a journey between no lazy man has ever seen. Out of the two points will choose, not the straight lake flows the stream, winding down a long line (the mathematical I abhor), nor the untrodden forest valley, until at length it smooth line (the sybaritical I contenn), joins the Stony Creek waters and empties but the crooked line, the line which wan- into the Raquette River. Which of the ders up hill and down dale, leading him three Ampersands has the prior claim to who follows it through sweet and secret the name I can not tell. Philosophically places, delaying him with fragrant mea- speaking, the mountain ought to be re- dows, babbling streams, cool shadows of garded as the father of the family, because trees and rocks, and bringing him at last it was undoubtedly there before the others to his journey's end with a kind of sur- existed. And the lake was probably the prise and regret, Those are the brightest next on the ground, because the stream is flowers which bloom where the crowd its child. But man is not strictly just in never think to look for them. Those are his nomenclature; and I conjecture that the fairest views which we discover for the little river, the last-born of the three, 218 HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. AMPERSAND LAKE. was the first to be called Ampersand, and month last summer at Bartlett's, Amper- then gave its name to its parent and grand- sand challenged me daily. parent. It is such a crooked stream, SO Do you know Bartlett's? It is the home- bent and curved and twisted upon itself, liest, quaintest, coziest place in the Adiron- SO fond of turning around unexpected cor- dacks. A score of years or more ago Vir- ners and sweeping away in great circles gil Bartlett came into the woods, and built from its direct course, that its first ex- his house on the bank of the Saranac Riv- plorers christened it after the eccentric su- er, between the Upper Saranac and Round pernumerary of the alphabet which ap- Lake. It was then the only dwelling pears in the old spelling-books as & within a circle of many miles. The deer But in spite of this apparent subordina- and bear were in the majority. At night tion to the stream in the matter of a name, one could sometimes hear the scream of the mountain clearly asserts its natural su- the panther or the howling of wolves. But periority. It stands up boldly, and domi- now the wilderness has begun to wear the nates not only its own lake, but at least traces of a conventional smile. The desert three others. The Lower Saranac, Round is blossoming a little-if not as the rose, at Lake, and Lonesome Pond are all stretched least as the gilly-flower. Fields have been at its foot and acknowledge its lordship. cleared, gardens planted; half a dozen log When the cloud is on its brow, they are cabins have been scattered along the riv- dark. When the sunlight strikes it, they er; and the old house, having grown slow- smile. Wherever you may go over the ly and somewhat irregularly for twenty waters of these lakes you shall see Amper- years, has lately come out in a modest coat sand looking down at you and saying, of paint and a broad-brimmed piazza. But quietly, "This is my domain." Virgil himself, the creator of the oasis- Now I never see a mountain which as- well known of hunters and fishermen, serts itself in this fashion without desiring dreaded of lazy guides and teamsters- to stand on the top of it. If one can reach "Virge," the irascible, kind-hearted, inde- the summit, one becomes a sharer in the fatigable, is here no longer. He will do dominion? The difficulties in the way only his friends no more favors, and put his foes add to the zest of the victory Every to confusion no'more. His short, imperi- mountain is, rightly considered, an invita- ous figure will not meet us again at the tion to climb. And as I was resting for a landing. For he has "gone out of the AMPERSAND. 219 wilderness," and no man can fill his place. ing over the stones, the same eddy coiling Peace be to thy memory, old friend There at the edge of the pool. Send your fly in are some who will not forget thy kindness- under those hanging branches, where the es in the good days that are past. water swirls around by that old log. Now The charm of Bartlett's for the angler draw it up toward the foam. There is a lies in the stretch of rapid water which sudden gleam of dull gold in the white flows just in front of the house. The Sar- water. You strike too soon. Your line anac River, breaking from its first rest- comes back to you: In a current like this ing-place in the Upper Lake, plunges down a fish will almost always hook himself. through a great bed of rocks, making a Try it again. This time he strikes the fly succession of short falls and pools and rap- fairly, and you have him. It is a good ids, about a quarter of a mile in length fish, and makes the slender rod bend to the Here, in the spring and early summer, the strain. He sulks for a moment as if un- W.G.Firies BARTLETT'S VILLAGE. speckled trout-brightest and gamiest of all certain what to do, and then with a rush fish that swim-are found in great num- darts into the swiftest part of the current. bers. As the season advances they move You can never stop him there. Let him away into the deep water of the lakes. go. Keep just enough pressure on him to But there are always a few stragglers left, hold the hook firm, and follow his trout- and I have taken them in the rapids at the ship down the stream as if he were a salm- very end of August. What could be more on. He slides over a little fall, gleaming delightful than to spend an hour or two in through the foam, and swings around in the early morning, or about sundown, of the next pool. Here you can manage him each day, in wading this rushing stream, more easily: and after a few minutes brill- and casting the fly on its clear waters ? iant play, a few mad dashes for the cur- The wind blows softly down the narrow rent, and one splendid leap out of water, valley, and the trees nod from the rocks he comes to the net, and your skillful above you. The noise of the falls makes guide lands him with a quick, steady sweep constant music in your ears. The river of the arm. The scales credit him with an hurries past you, and yet it is never gone. even pound of flesh, and a better fish than The same foam-flakes seem to be always this you will hardly take here in midsum- gliding downward, the same spray dash- mer. 220 HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. On my word, master," says the appre- will make for you a bed of fragrant bal- ciative Venator, in Walton's Angler. this sam boughs on which Insomnia can nev- is a gallant trout; what shall we do with er find you. Such a guide was mine, re- him And honest Piscator replies: joicing in the Scriptural name of Hosea, Marry! e'en eat him to supper; we'll go but commonly called, in brevity and to my hostess from whence we came; she friendliness, 'Hose. told me, as I was going out of door, that As we entered Round Lake on this fair my brother Peter R. R.), a good angler morning its surface was as smooth and and a cheerful companion, had sent word shining as a mirror. It was too early yet he would lodge there to-night, and bring for the tide of travel which sends a score a friend with him. My hostess has two of boats up and down this thoroughfare beds, and I know you and I have the best; every day; and from shore to shore the we'll rejoice with my brother Peter and water was unruffled, except by a flock of his friend, tell tales, or sing ballads, or sheldrakes which had been feeding near make a catch, or find some harmless sport Plymouth Rock, and now went skittering to content us, and pass away a little time off into Weller Bay with great splashing without offense to God or man.' and noise, leaving a long wake of foam Ampersand waited patiently while I behind them. At such a time as this you passed many days in such innocent and can see the real color of these Adirondack healthful pleasures as these, until the right lakes. It is not blue, as romantic writers day came for the ascent. Cool, clean, and SO often describe it, nor green, like some bright, the crystal morning promised a of those wonderful Swiss lakes, although glorious noon, and the mountain almost of course it reflects the color of the trees seemed to beckon us to come up higher. along the shore; and when the wind stirs My photographic camera and a trustwor- it, it gives back the lue of the sky, blue thy lunch were stowed away in the pack- when it is clear, gray when the clouds are basket. The backboard was adjusted at a gathering, and sometimes as black as ink comfortable angle in the stern seat of our under the shadow of storm. But when little boat. "The guide held the little craft it is still, the water itself is like that river steady while I stepped into my place; then which one of the poets has described as he pushed out into the stream, and wewent "Flowing with a smooth brown current." swiftly down toward Round Lake. The motion of these Saranac boats is And in this broad burnished mirror the delightful. They are light and somewhat mountains and islands were reflected per- cranky-frail shells, through the sides of fectly, and the sun shone back from it which you can easily put your heel by a not in broken gleams or a wide lane of careless step-but in the hands of an ex- light, but like a single ball of fire, moving perienced oarsman they are as safe as a before us as we moved. Cunarder, riding the heaviest sea like a But stop! What was that dark speck duck, and slipping through the water with on the water which I saw away down to- magical ease. One can travel in them all ward Turtle Point? It was just the color day long without fatigue, and forty miles and size of a deer's head. It seemed to is no uncommon journey with a good move steadily out into the lake. A little guide. ripple, like a wake, appeared behind it. Everything depends in the Adirondacks Hose turned to look at it, and then sent upon your guide. If he is lazy, OP selfish, the boat darting in that direction with or stupid, you will not enjoy yourself; long, swift strokes. It was a moment of but if he is the right kind of a guide, he pleasant excitement, and we began to con- will be at the same time your "philoso- jecture whether the deer was a buck or a pher and friend." He will initiate you doe, and whose hounds had driven it in. into the mysteries of wood-craft. He will But when Hose turned to look again, he tell you the secrets of "spring-holes" and slackened his stroke, and said: "I guess "runways." He will cook for you when we needn't to hurry; he won't get away. you are hungry, and find a cold stream for It's astonishin' what a lot of fun a man you when you are thirsty. He will tell can get in the course of a natural life in you endless stories of hunting and fish- chasin' chumps of wood." ing when you are in the talking mood, We landed on a sand beach at the and keep a discreet silence when you are mouth of a little stream, where a blazed meditative. And when you are sleepy he tree marked the beginning of the Amper- AMPERSAND. 221 TROUTING. sand trail. [This line, or path, through the unwary wanderer is thereby led aside the forest was first made some fifteen from the right way, and entangled in the years ago by that ardent sportsman and undergrowth. (And as for Nature, she is lover of the Adirondacks Dr. W. W. Ely, entirely opposed to the continuance of of Rochester. Since that time it has been paths through her forest. Slie covers shortened and improved a little by other them with fallen leaves, and hides them travellers, and also not a little blocked with thick bushes. She drops great trees and confused by the lumbermen and the across them, and blots them out with course of Nature. For when the lumber- windfalls. But the blazed line - a suc- men go into the woods they cut roads in cession of broad axe-marks on the trunks every direction, leading nowhither, and of the trees, just high enough to catch 222 HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. MAKING A PORTAGE. the eye on a level-can not be SO easily ern forests you must have often wonder- obliterated, and this, after all, is the safest ed at the absence of life. and felt a sense guide through the woods of pity for the apparent loneliness of the Our trail led us at first through a nat- solitary squirrel that chatters at you as ural meadow, overgrown with waist-high you pass, or the little bird that hops noise- grass, and very spongy to the tread. Hor- lessly about in the thickets. The middle net-haunted also, was this meadow, and of the day is an especially silent and de- therefore no place for idle dalliance or serted time. The deer are asleep in some unwary digression, for the bite of the hor- leafy covert. The partridge has gathered net is one of the saddest and most humil- her brood in a quiet nook for their noon- iating surprises of this mortal life. Then day nap. The squirrels are perhaps count- through a tangle of old wood roads my ing over their store of nuts in a hollow guide led me safely, and we struck up on tree, and the wood-thrush spares her sweet the long ridges which slope gently from voice until the evening. The woods are the lake to the base of the mountain. close-not cool and fragrant as the fool- Here walking was comparatively easy, ish romances describe them - but warm for in the hard-wood timber there is little and still; for the breeze which sweeps underbrush. The long massive trunks across the hill-top and ruffles the surface seemed like pillars set to uphold the level of the lake does not penetrate into these roof of green. Great yellow birches, shag- shady recesses, and therefore all the in- gy with age, stretched their knotted arms habitants take the noon-tide as their hour high above us, sugar-maples stood up of rest. Only the big woodpecker-lie of straight and proud under their leafy the scarlet head and mighty bill-is inde- crowns, and innumerable smooth beech- fatigable, and somewhere unseen is "tap- es-the most polished and park-like of all ping the hollow beech-tree," while a wake- the forest trees-offered special opportu- ful little bird, invisible though near at nities for the carving of lovers' names in hand, pierces the air with his long-drawn a place where few lovers ever come. Chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee-ee!" As we walked onward the woods were After about an hour of this easy walk- very quiet. It seemed as if all living ing our trail began to ascend more sharp- creatures had deserted them. Indeed, ly. We passed over the shoulder of a ridge if you have spent much time in our North- and around the edge of a fire-slash, and AMPERSAND 223 then we had the mountain fairly before the very summit, feel the splendor of the us. Not that we could see anything of it, outlook flash upon one like a revelation. for the woods still shut us in, but the path The character of the woods through became very steep, and we knew that it which we were now passing was entirely was a straight climb; not up and down and different from that on the lower levels. round about did this most uncompromising On these steep places the birch and ma- trail proceed, but right up, in a direct line ple will not grow. or at least they occur for the summit. Now this side of Amper- but sparsely. The higher slopes and sharp sand is steeper than any Gothic roof I have ridges of the mountains are always cover- ever seen, and withal very much encum- ed with black timber. Spruce and hem- bered with rocks and ledges and fallen lock and balsam strike their roots among trees. There were places where we had to the rocks, and find a hidden nourishment. haul ourselves up by roots and branches, They stand close together; thickets of small and places where we had to go down on trees spring up among the large ones; from our hands and knees to crawl under logs. year to year the great trunks are falling, It was breathless work, but not at all dangerous or difficult. Every step forward was also a step upward and as we stopped to rest for a moment. we could see already glimpses of the lake below us. But at these I did not much care to look, for I think it is a pity to spoil the surprise of a grand view by taking little snatches of it beforehand. It is better to keep one's face set to the mountain, and then coming out from the dark forest upon 224 HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. one across another, and the undergrowth seemed like the landscape of a dream. is thickening around them, until a spruce One almost feared to speak lest it should forest seems to be almost impassable. The vanish. constant rain of needles and the crum- Right below us the Lower Saranac and bling of the fallen trees form a rich, soft Lonesome Pond, Round Lake and the forest mould, into which the foot sinks Weller Ponds, were spread out like a noiselessly. Deep. wonderful beds of moss, map. Every point and island was clear- many feet in thickness, and softer than ly marked. We could follow the course feathers. cover the rocks and roots. There of the Saranac River in all its curves and are shadows never broken by the sun, and windings, and see the white tent of the dark, cool springs of icy water hidden hay-makers on the wild meadows. Far away in the crevices. You feel a sense of away to the northeast stretched the level antiquity here which you can never feel fields of Bloomingdale. But westward among the maples and beeches. Long- from that all was unbroken wilderness, a fellow was right when he filled his forest great sea of woods as far as the eye could primeval with "murmuring pines and reach. And how far it can reach from hemlocks. a height like this! What a revelation it The higher one climbs the darker and gives to us of the power of sight! That gloomier and more rugged the vegetation faint blue outline far in the north was becomes. The pine-trees soon cease to Lyon Mountain, nearly thirty miles away follow you; the hemlocks disappear, and as the crow flies. Those silver gleams a the balsams can go no farther. Only the little nearer were the waters of St. Regis. hardy spruce keeps on bravely, growing The Upper Saranac was displayed in all more and more rough and stunted, with its length and breadth, and beyond it the branches matted together and pressed innumerable waters of Fish Creek were down flat by the weight of the winter's glistening among the dark woods. The snow, until finally, somewhere about the long ranges of the hills about the Jordan level of thirty-four hundred feet above the bounded the western horizon, and on the sea, even this bold climber gives out, and southwest Big Tupper Lake was sleeping the weather-beaten rocks of the summit at the base of Mount Morris. Looking are clad only with the hardiest mosses and past the peak of Stony Creek Mountain, Alpine plants. which rose sharp and distinct in a line Thus it is with mountains, as perhaps with Ampersand, we could trace the path with men, a mark of superior dignity to of the Raquette River from the distant be naturally bald. Ampersand, falling waters of Long Lake down through its short by a thousand feet of the needful far-stretched valley, and catch here and height, can not claim this distinction. there a silvery link of its current. But what Nature has denied, human labor But when we turned to the south and has supplied. Under the direction of Mr. east, how wonderful and how different Verplanck Colviu, of the Adirondack Sur- was the view Here was no wide-spread vey, several acres of trees were cut away and smiling landscape with gleams of sil- from the summit, and when we emerged, ver scattered through it, and soft blue after the last sharp scramble, upon the haze resting upon its fading verge, but a very crest of the mountain, we were not wild land of mountains, stern, rugged, tu- shut in by a dense thicket, but stood upon multuous, rising one beyond another like a bare ridge of granite in the centre of a the waves of a stormy ocean-Ossa piled little clearing. above Pelion-MeIntyre's sharp peak and I shut my eyes for a moment, drew a the ragged crest of the Gothics, and, above few long breaths of the glorious breeze, all, Marcy's dome-like head, raised just far and then looked out upon a wonder and enough above the others to assert his l'oy- delight beyond description. al right as monarch of the Adirondacks. A soft, dazzling splendor filled the air. But grandest of all, as seen from this Snowy banks and drifts of cloud were height, was Mount Seward-a solemn gi- floating slowly over a wide and wondrous ant of a mountain, standing apart from land. Vast sweeps of forest, shining wa- the others, and looking us full in the face. ters, mountains near and far, the deepest He was clothed from base to summit in a green and the faintest, palest blue, chan- dark unbroken robe of forest. Ou-kor- ging colors and glancing lights, and all SO lah, the Indians called him the Great silent, SO strange, SO far away, that it Eye; and he seemed almost to frown upon AMPERSAND 225 HEART OF THE ADIRONDACKS us in defiance. At his feet, SO straight below us that it seemed almost as if we could cast a stone into its clear brown depths, lay the wildest and most beau- tiful of all the Adirondack waters- Ampersand Pond. 2'on its shore, some five-and-twenty years ago, the now almost forgotten Adirondack Club had their shanty- the successor of "the Philosophers' Camp" cabin, to which they purposed to return on Follensbee Pond. Agassiz, of Cam- from summer to summer. But the civil bridge, the genial and witty Tom Appleton, war broke out, with all its terrible excite- of Boston, Charles E. Norton, Emerson, ment and confusion of hurrying hosts: Lowell, Judge Hoar, Judge Gray, John the club existed but for two years, and Holmes, and W. J. Stillman, of The Na- the little house in the wilderness was tion, were among the company who made abandoned. Ten years ago, when I spent their resting-place under the shadow of three weeks at Ampersand, the cabin was Mount Seward. They had bought a tract in ruins, tenanted only by an interesting of forest land completely encircling the family of what the guides quaintly call pond, cut a rough road in to it through "quill pigs," and surrounded by an al- the woods, and built a comfortable log most impenetrable growth of bushes and 226 HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. VIEW EAST FROM AMPERSAND saplings, among which a brood of par- at a downward angle. The power of the tridges were in hiding. The roof had fall- light at this elevation was to me in my en to the ground raspberry-bushes thrust inexperience an unknown quantity. And themselves through the yawning crevices the wind was sweeping vigorously across between the logs; and in front of the sunk- the open summit of the mountain. I put en door-sill lay a rusty, broken iron stove, in my smallest stop, and prepared for like a dismantled altar on which the fire short exposures. had gone out forever. Since that time My instrument was a Blair tourograph, two new trails have been cut to the pond, which is as compact and useful as any- and it has become more accessible and thing that is made, but differs from most more frequented. other cameras in having the plate-holder After we had feasted our eyes upon the on top of the box. The plates are dropped view as long as we dared, counted the into a groove below, and then moved back- lakes and streams, and found that we could ward OP forward into focus, after which see without a glass more than thirty, and the cap is removed and the exposure made. recalled the memories of "good times" I set my instrument for Ampersand which came to us from almost every point Pond, sighted the picture through the of the compass, we unpacked the camera, ground glass, and measured the focus. and proceeded to take some pictures. Then I waited for a quiet moment, dropped If you are a photographer, and have the plate, moved it carefully forward to anything of the amateur's passion for the proper mark, and went around to take your art, you will appreciate my pleasure off the cap. I found that I already had and my anxiety. Never before, SO far as it in my hand, and the plate had been ex- I knew, had a camera been set up on Am- posed for about thirty seconds, with a persand. I had but eight plates with me. sliding focus! The views were all very distant and all I expostulated with myself. I said: HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS'S LOVE AFFAIR. 227 "You are excited; you are stupid; you are on among my most valuable chattels the unworthy of the name of photographer. plates of glass on which the sun has Light-writer! You ought to write with a traced for me (who can not draw) the out- whitewash-brush! The reproof was ef- lines of that loveliest landscape fectual, and from that moment all went The downward journey was swift and well. The plates dropped smoothly, the pleasant. We halted for an hour or two camera was steady, the exposure was cor- beside a trickling spring a few rods below rect. Six good pictures were made, to re- the summit to eat our lunch and rest. call, SO far as black and white could do it, Then, jumping, running, and sometimes the delights of that day. sliding, we made the proverbially easy de- It has been my good fortune to climb scent, passed in safety by the dreaded lair many of the famous peaks of the Adiron- of the hornet, and reached Bartlett's as the daxks-Dix, the Dial, Hurricane, the Giant day was declining to its peaceful close. of the Valley, Marcy, and Whiteface-but Tell me, I pray you, my gentle reader, I do not think the outlook from any was not this a day to be grateful for and of them is SO wonderful and SO lovely as are not these pleasures, as Izaak Walton that from little Ampersand; and I reck- saith, without offense to God or man? HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS'S LOVE AFFAIR W HEN Colonel Chowery, late of the teen, used to go every afternoon at four to Madras Infantry, went to settle at fetch home her two younger sisters, Alice Altenstadt with his wife and seven chil- and Mary, who attended the High School dren, he was impelled only by motives of for young ladies. One December day, as economy. If it had been predicted to him the three girls were close to their home in that his going to reside at the capital of the Blumenstrasse, and were walking very Gothia would nearly cause a revolution fast and yly/because of the frost, they in that country, and would lead to com- saw a small Gothian boy, aged four, with plications threatening a European war, his shirt tail sticking out of his trou- the disturbance of the balance of power, sers (as the fashion for boys is in that and the upsetting of an English ministry, kingdom), toddle across the road just as a he would have thought such contingen- phacton and pair were coming down at a cies highly improbable. Colonel Chow- spanking trot. 'Oh, Mab, he'll be run ery was not an imaginative man; he could over!" shrieked Alice and Mary together; not even imagine how it was that, prac- but before they could add another word, ticing the utmost thrift, he found it SO Mabel had rushed to the small Gothian's difficult to square his accounts every rescue, and had borne him out of harm's quarter-day. As for wars and other such way SO fast that she lost her balance and exciting things, he fancied he had done fell down with him. The small Gothian, with them all when he retired from the feeling deeply aggrieved, roared and kick- Indian service on with three ed out. The driver of the phaeton pulled medals, and a thankful mind at having up his team on their haunches, and Ma- not the slightest touch of liver complaint. bel, as she stood up pink with confusion, But as a man can never make quite recognized the Crown Prince in the tall, sure of where he is going when he drives dark, and handsome man who had alight- a gig, SO a father can never plainly fore- ed, hat in hand, and was asking her, in a see what trials are in store for him when voice of sincere concern, whether she was he owns a pretty daughter. Mabel Chow- hurt. ery, the colonel's eldest girl, was one of 'No, sir, not in the least," faltered Ma- the sweetest maidens you can picture in bel, blushing all the more now she saw your mind's eye, and it pleased his Royal who the speaker was. Everybody knew Highness the Crown Prince of Gothia to the Crown Prince by sight: his photo- fall in love with her. Here you have at graph was in a hundred shop windows. once all the elements for the very pretty You had'a bad fall," he said, kindly, kettle of fish above mentioned. and it was my fault. Will you let me The thing came about, quite naturally, offer you my arm and escort you home?' in this way: Mabel, who was then seven- "Thank you," said Mabel. "We live In 1921 al 1923, two ensurators stephanleather HENRY DYKE LOVER OF NATURE, INCORRIGIBLE FISHERMAN the Director of National Parks, and Horace M. Albright, then resources of natural beauty and healthful out-door life. The mothers Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, Henry van Dyke of America can do even more than the fathers to bring this idea home made extended visits to the whole Yellowstone region and took an and make it work." He refused to take part in the quarrels between active part in the struggle then on foot for the defense of the Parks sportsmen's organizations: "The odium theologicum will not be and the protection of game and fish throughout the district. With beneficial in the realm of sport any more than it has been in the his rod in his hand he investigated the fishing and talked care- realm of religion." Here, too, he was an open honest fighter de- fully with many hunters and fishermen. He travelled the whole spising cant and holding his eye on the main objective. region, some of it in a car, the back districts on horseback and In 1926 he wrote for the National Parks Bulletin an article in afoot along the lakes and streams. It was a characteristically thorough which he asked: piece of work. The fruits of it appeared in articles in the New York "Why should we not regard our National Parks as the Out-Door Uni- Times, September 18, 1921, "Nature and the New Campers," and versity of the United States? September 25, 1921, "The Nation's Heirlooms of Beauty") and in The State Parks would be local colleges. The Municipal Parks would the New York Herald, October 2I, 1923, "Angling Problems in and be playgrounds and pleasances. around Yellowstone." There were also many letters about the issues I do not mean that the Parks should be organized in academic fash- raised. He fought the bill for the damming of Yellowstone Lake, ion, with faculties and classes, entrance examinations, grades, diplomas, made valuable observations on the spawning habits of the fish and and degrees. Heaven forbid! We have enough of that already,-for my offered a proposal: "Establish by law (at least for the streams and taste perhaps a little too much. lakes in these high altitudes), a closed season of protection for red A National Park, if it is used as Yellowstone is, should be as sacred throat trout, and grayling, beginning when the ice goes out, and end- as a temple.' ing about July 15th, or at any rate not earlier than July Ist. Give A little later he joined in the successful defense of the seldom- the fish a chance to do their best at the proper time, and to rest visited southwest section of Yellowstone Park-where he had ridden and fatten up after they have done it!' He took an active and im- in 1923-against a well-organized commercial raid. For The Out- portant part in the campaign to extend Yellowstone Park to include look at the invitation of Ernest Hamlin Abbott he wrote "A Meadow the Teton mountain district-a region against which the exploiters that Belongs to the People" and elsewhere also presented first-hand were in full cry. For this purpose he traversed the country on horse- testimony on behalf of the Park. back and drew a studied line upon the map and supported his opin- His service as a conservationist and his status as an out-door man ion with vigorous cogent letters. were recognized when in 1927 he was made a member of the Na- Meantime his pen and personal influence were busy in the found- tional Parks Association's "Advisory Board on Educational and In- ing of the Izaak Walton League of America. Perhaps Walton might say to us, he wrote: "Trust me, scholars, the gentle sport of Angling spirational Functions of National Parks" (a title which it is needless shall be safe in your country for many a year, if every man among to add Henry van Dyke did not suggest) you will but learn to love his neighbor's fishing as his own." And A letter from John C. Merriam, President of the Carnegie Institu- he rejoiced when the General Federation of Women's Clubs en- tion of Washington bears authoritative testimony to Henry van dorsed the League's proposal for a National Preserve on the upper Dyke's share in keeping America aware of her birthright: waters of the Mississippi: "Let us get into our minds and into theirs," "As I think I remarked to you in conversation, I consider your contri- he wrote, "the constructive idea of a Savings Bank for our Country's butions to interpretation of certain aspects of some of the national parks [310] [311] Henry yke A Biography Tertius Vax Dyta N.Y : Hayant birthers, 1935 Chebacco 18 (2017) Henry van Dyke at Seal Harbor By Carl Little Here is the place to see it all, and to drain the full cup of delight; not a standpoint, but a sailing-line just beyond Baker's Island: a voyager's field of vision, shifting, changing, unfolding, as new bays and islands come into view, and new peaks arise, and new valleys open in the line of emerald and amethyst and carnelian and tourmaline hills. 1 -Henry van Dyke Author, pastor, poet, scholar, outdoorsman and diplomat: these are a few of the hats Henry van Dyke (1852-1933) donned in his incredibly full life. For the last thirty or so years of his life, van Dyke made summer sojourns to Seal Harbor, a place that nurtured his writing and his soul, and heightened his passion for the natural world. Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, of Dutch ancestry, van Dyke spent his childhood in Brooklyn Heights, where his father, the Reverend Henry Jackson van Dyke, was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. It was his father who introduced him to the outdoors and nurtured in him a lifelong commitment to fostering companionship with nature. Van Dyke went on to study at Princeton University, where he received his AB (1873), master's (1876) and doctor of divinity (1877) degrees, the last from the Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1879. He later was awarded honorary degrees from, among other institutions, Harvard, Yale, and Wesleyan. Van Dyke married Ellen Reid of Baltimore in December 1881; they had nine children. Following in his father's footsteps, he became This essay was inspired by discovering Henry van Dyke's book Days Off and Other Digressions (1907) in the Northeast Harbor Library many years ago and being struck by his evocations of Mount Desert Island. Special thanks to the late Betsey Pfeiffer, who shared memories of her Uncle Henry: Scott Planting ill the Maine Seacoast Mission for having scans made (by Jeff Dobbs) of several will Dyke items: and Amanda Shields at the Brandywine River Museum of Ari for providing the I lenry van Dyke with fly rod. Courtesy of the Maine Seacoast Mission Schoonover illustration. 164. 2/19/2020 Sent - Mail - RONALD EPP - Xfinity Connect Henry van Dyke RONALD EPP 8:54 PM To Carl Little Dear Carl, I've just finished reading your 2017 van Dyke essay in Chebacco, having only skimmed it when it first appeared. Well done!! I bring to your attention a connection with Mr. Dorr. As you know, the vagaries of research are infinite and I was drawn today to your article after reading a lengthy 1885 essay van Dyke wrote on "Ampersand," a lake and mountain in the Adirondacks near the famous "Philosopher's Camp where R.W. Emerson and other Boston intellectuals vacationed in 1859. I found the reference to the Ampersand article in the wonderful Harper's New Monthly Magazine in James Schlett;s A Not too Greatly Changed Eden where I was pursuing a maternal family connection to George Dorr. Of specific interest to+xou is that mi files contain a typed 8/16/28 letter on dinner given by Henry Stimson few days earner. Van ersan Dyke Wanted to clarify for Dorr the fate of "our old friend Virgil in the Divine Comedy." I recall somewhere in Dorr's memoirs that he mentions van Dyke and their discussion of Virgil, yet another example of the vast social connections of their era, for as you may recall they were born but a year apart. Hope to travel to MDI after the snow melts in early May. I regret the demise of the group of MDI historians that Jack Russell shepherded these last few years, don't you? All the Best, Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 7 Peachtree Terrace