The complete online text of Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Henry van Dyke.

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." One critic has stated that Van Dyke "has refined the...

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 the twentieth century, castigating the modern trend tow...

The Baptist River: Essays on Many Tributaries of a Diverse Tradition. Edited by W. Glenn Jonas, Jr. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2006. 284 pp. In his preface to The Baptist River, Glenn Jonas recites the Kierkegaard story in which a theater...

"The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the...