VAN BUREN, JAMES HEARTT: Protestant Episcopal missionary bishop of Porto Rico; b. at Watertown, N. Y., July 7, 1850. He was educated at Yale (A.B., 1873) and at Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn. (graduated 1876). He was ordained to the priesthood in 1876, and was rector of St. Peter's, Milford, Conn. (1876-78), Trinity, Seymour, Conn. (1878-80), St. Paul's, Englewood, N. J. (1880-84), St. Paul's, Newburyport, Mass. (1884-90), and St. Stephen's, Lynn, Mass. (1890-1901). In 1902 he was consecrated bishop of the missionary district of Porto Rico. He has written Latin Hymns in English Verse (Boston, 1904).

VAN DYCK, van daik, CORNELIUS VAN ALEN: Reformed Dutch medical missionary; b. at Kinderhook, N. Y., Aug. 13, 1818; d. at Beirut Aug.

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13, 1895. He was educated at Mnderhook Academy, and in medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia (1839); appointed missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. for Syria, 1839; sailed from Boston for Beirut Jan., 1840; was ordained by Syrian Mission in council, Jan. 14, 1846; principal of Missionary Seminary, 1848-52; then missionary in the Sidon field till 1857; translator of the Bible into Arabic from 1857, and manager of the Mission Press, 1857-80; physician to St. John's Hospital, and professor of pathology in the Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, till 1882; after that, physician to St. George's Hospital. He was "broad Calvinistic" in his theology. He taught Hebrew in Union Theological Seminary, New York City, while superintending the printing of his translation of the Arabic Bible at the American Bible Society, 1866-67. He translated into Arabic the Westminster Assembly's Shorter Catechism (Beirut, 1843); Schonberg-Cotta Family (1885); and was the author in Arabic of various text-books in mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. He was noted for his mastery of the Arabic language and literature.

VAN DYKE, HENRY JACKSON: Presbyterian; b. at Germantown, Pa., Nov. 10, 1852. He was educated at Princeton College (A.B., 1873) and at Princeton Theological Seminary (graduated 1877). In 1878 he studied at the University of Berlin, and upon his return to the United States held pastorates at the United Congregational Church, Newport, R. I. (1879-82), and the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City (1883-1900); became professor of English literature in Princeton University, 1900. His writings include: The Reality of Religion (New York, 1884); The Story of the Psalms (1887); Sermons to Young Men (1893); The Christ Child in Art (1894); The Other Wise Man (1896); The Gospel for an Age of Doubt (1896); The First Christmas Tree (1897); The Builders, and other Poems (1897); The Lost Word (1898); The Gospel for a World of Sin (1899); The Toiling of Felix, and other Poems (1900); The Poetry of the Psalms (1900); The Friendly Year (1900); The Ruling Passion (1901); The Open Door (Philadelphia, 1903); Music, and other Poems (New York, 1904); The School of Life (1905); Essays in Application (1905); The Spirit of Christmas (1905); Days of, and Other Digressions (1907); The Music-Lover (1907); Counsels by the Way (1908) ; House of Rimmon (1908); Out of Doors in. the Holy Land (1908); White Bees and Other Poems (1909); Spirit of America (1910); and Complete Poems (1911).