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VAN DYKE 163 VAN HOBNE serving until 1918. President of the Na- tional 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; born in New Bruns- wick, N. J., April 21, 1856; was edu- cated 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 universi- ties. 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. VANE, SIR HENRY, commonly called Sir Harry Vane, an English statesman and writer; born in Hadlow, Kent, Eng- land, in 1612; eldest son of Sir Henry Vane, secretary of state. He was educated at Westminster and Ox- ford, afterward completing his educa- tion at Geneva, where he became a Puritan and a republican. Returning to England, he found that his religious and political opinions exposed him to much ill will and annoyance, and he conse- quently emigrated to New England, arriving at Boston in 1635. He was elected governor of Massachusetts in 1636. In 1637 he returned to England, after which he was knighted, entered Parliament, and became treasurer of the navy. He took part in the impeachment of Strafford, and was a zealous sup- porter of Parliament in the civil war and one of the leaders in the Long Parliament. He was also a supporter of the Solemn League and Covenant. He was averse to the execution of the king, and came into conflict with Cromwell in consequence of the forcible dissolution of the Long Parliament (1653). In 1656 he was imprisoned in Carisbrooke Castle for four months, by order of Cromwell, on account of a pamphlet he had written. On his release he continued to resolutely oppose the government of Cromwell and of his son Richard. In 1659 he was a member of the committee of safety and president of the council of state. After the Restoration he was sent to the Tower in February, 1660, and subsequently moved from prison to prison. A rising of the Fifth Monarchy party in January, 1661, led to increased severity toward him, and he was tried for high treason before the Court of King's Bench, June 2, 1662, condemned, and beheaded on Tower Hill on June 14. He wrote various theological works characterized by excessive mysticism, and his religious views gave rise to a small circle of disciples known as Vanists. VAN HISE, CHAS. B., an American geologist; born in Fulton, Wis., May 29, 1857; was graduated at the University of Wisconsin in 1879, and was instructor there in metallurgy till 1883, when he was made assistant professor, becoming full professor in 1886. Two years later he accepted the chair of geology in the same institution, and in 1892 was made non-resident Professor of Structural Geology at the University of Chicago. He became director of the Lake Superior division of the United States Geological Survey. He was elected president of the University of Wisconsin in 1903, serving until 1918. He was the joint author of the memoirs "On Secondary Enlarge- ments of Mineral Fragments in Certain Rocks" (1884) ; "The Penokee-Gogebic Iron-bearing Series of Michigan and Wisconsin" (1892) ; "Correlation Papers, Archean and Algonkian" (1892) ; "Prin- ciples of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology" (1896); "Concentration and Control" (1912). He died Nov. 19, 1918. VAN HORNE, SIR WILLIAM COB* NELIUS, a Canadian railroad official; born in Joliet, 111., Feb. 3, 1843; began his career as an office boy in a railroad