The Ruling Passion

Tales of Nature and Human Nature

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The Ruling Passion, subtitled Tales of Nature and Human Nature, is by Henry Van Dyke. The text includes a request that asks to be kept from caring more for books than for folks, for art than for life.

A scene shows men and maids careering up and down a room, with Hold the Fort as the tune and Money Musk as the dance. A stranger stands in the parlour door with his coat off and his violin hugged close under his chin. The text has a mother calling from the house-door, "Pierre! Marie! come away quick! That bad dog will bite you!" Marcel and Nataline are said to have hunted in partnership, and one day they had shot a fox, which Nataline had shot though Marcel had seen it first and tracked it.

About the author

Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933), known in full as Henry Jackson van Dyke Jr., was an American author, educator and diplomat who also wrote poetry and worked as a theologian and literary scholar. His books include "The Blue Flower" and "The House of Rimmon".