+ Outlook 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w + Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 2 ’20 220w
VAN DYKE, TERTIUS. Songs of seeking and finding. *$1.50 Scribner 811
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“It would have been rather disappointing if the music of many little (and unpronounceable) rivers, spilled down his boyhood years, had not left song in the heart of the master of Avalon’s son. So it is not at all surprising to discover that ‘Songs of seeking and finding’ is a book of very pleasant and profitable verse. The strong, virile faith behind the poems—their wholesome Christianity—impresses the reader more than the polish of their lines. Mr Van Dyke pleads for real values of life and real religion.”—Springf’d Republican
“Tertius Van Dyke writes poetry in the manner of his father, but not quite so well.”
+ − Ind 104:66 O 9 ’20 50w
“The best things in the book seem to me to be ‘The war-makers,’ because there is a bit of good healthy rage in it, and ‘A minister learns about life,’ because it has a good idea in it and ends at just the right moment.” M. Wilkinson
+ − N Y Times p18 Ag 8 ’20 300w
“Mr Van Dyke is more successful in poems thus reflective than in his lyrics, though in them the same forceful spirit is unmistakable.”