Letters From Van Dyke to Woodberry Are Exhibited

The mutual respect of two of the most popular writers of the last generation is clearly evinced in the letters from Henry Van Dyke to George E. Woodberry, the most representative of which are now on exhibit in the Poetry Room in Widener Library. Writing in a manner which be speaks great friendship and a long acquaintance, Van Dyke states that Woodberry's Gibraltar Sonnets" will live with Wordsworth; he compares the quality of Woodberry's "Hawthorne" to George Inness' painting. Most interesting of them all is one written shortly before the deaths of both men. It reveals the hearts of two old men who have outlived their generation, but who, in the face of change, still cling to the standards of the times in which they lived. A reflection on religion completes the picture.