he Master of Ballantrae,"
"Father Damien," "Ebb Tide," and "Weir of Hermiston." _The Celestial
Surgeon_.
T
TEICHNER, MIRIAM. Born at Detroit, Mich., 1888. Educated in public
schools there; graduated from Central High School; took special
courses in English and economics at the University of Michigan. Member
of staff of Detroit _News_ after leaving school, writing a daily
column of verse and humor; came to New York City as special feature
writer of the New York _Globe_ 1915; in Germany for the Detroit _News_
and Associated Newspapers writing of post-war social and economic
conditions 1921. _Awareness_; _Submission_; _The Struggle_; _Victory_.
TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD. Born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, Eng., Aug. 6, 1809;
died at Aldworth House, near Haslemere, Surrey, Oct. 6, 1892. Student
at Cambridge 1828-31, but did not take a degree; trip to the Pyrenees
with Arthur Hallam 1832; granted a pension of L200 by Peel 1845; after
residing successively at Twickenham and Aldworth, he settled at
Farringford, the Isle of Wight, 1853. Became poet laureate 1850;
raised to the peerage 1884. Some of his well-known poems are "The Lady
of Shalott," "The Palace of Art," "The Lotus Eaters," "A Dream of Fair
Women," "Oenone," "Morte d'Arthur," "Dora," "Ulysses," "Locksley
Hall," "The Princess," "In Memoriam," "Maud," "Ode on the Death of the
Duke of Wellington," "Charge of the Light Brigade," "Idylls of the
King," "Enoch Arden," and the plays "Queen Mary" and "Becket." _Life,
not Death_; _Ring Out, Wild Bells_; _The Greatness of the Soul_;
_Ulysses_; _Will_.
V
VAN DYKE, HENRY. Born at Germantown, Pa., Nov. 10, 1852; graduated at
Polytechnical Institute of Brooklyn 1869; A.B. degree from Princeton
1873; M.A. degree from there 1876; graduated from Princeton
Theological Seminary 1877; studied at University of Berlin 1877-9; has
received honorary degrees from Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Union,
Wesleyan, Pennsylvania, and Oxford. Pastor of United Congregational
Church, Newport, R.I., 1879-82, and of the Brick Presbyterian Church,
New York, 1883-1900; professor of English literature at Princeton from
1900; U.S. minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg 1913-17. Author
of "The Poetry of Tennyson," "Sermons to Young Men," "Little Rivers,"
"The Other Wise Man," "The First Christmas Tree," "The Builders, and
Other Poems," "The Lost Word," "Fisherman's Luck," "The Toili
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