Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-11-18
EVENING STAR.
IHURSDAY.... Noyembsr IL. 1879
Literary Lights In Newark.

A GALAAn OF WkLL-kNoWN LITERARY
S III AUTHOR or"I WANT
A New York correspondent OF the Boston
Saturday Gazette writes as follows OF liter
airy lights In Newark: There are quite a
number Of well known literary people living
in Newark, New jersey, although there
never was city that showed less evidence
OF culture than that Nothing ever draws a
crowd over there but prayer meeting or a
circus. The best singers and the best actors
may go there, but seldom make enough 10
pay their hall rent. or literary people llv-
Ing In that manufacturing town, perhaps the
most widely known is Marion Harlan. This
popular suthoress is Mrs. r. i. Terhune to
Newarkers, and she is the wife of an equally
church. Mrs. Terhune is a sort OF Lady
Bountiful, and is at the head OF almost every
makes no fuss or hustle about what she
does, but goes quietly about her work, as
though her books d!I not sell by the fifty
thousand. From her Common Sense in
the Household" she has an income of - 500
per annum. That is common sense worth
having. II her novels do p-oportionstely
well. she rs in a fair way 10 become rich.
Mrs. Terhune is a plain, modest sort of wo-
man, devoted wife, and a sincere friend.
she has been very ~ ali summer, but is now
better.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge. the editress OF
81. Nicholas, and the author OF Hans
Brinker,' lives on the old Mapes place. Just
outside OF Newark. This was the home OF
her father, Prof. James J. Mapes, and is the
great summer visiting place OF soms OF our
most DISTINGUISHED literary people. IL IL a
charming place 10 visit, aud is one OF those
comfortable country homes that were built
before the days when ground was 50 scarce
iEat all houses and public buildings had TO
firmly uPon the earth. Mrs. Dodge Is a
widow, and has two sons. one OF these
young gentlemen inherits all his grand
fathers inventive genius, besides being a
PRACTICAL worker and the Tight-hand man OF
John Roach. the great ship builder. The
other. anu younger, has just LEFT Rutgers
College, where he had brilliant career.
Mrs. Sophie Mares- folleS, who has an enVi-
able reputation as an artist, makes the Old
homestead her summer headquarters.
Mrs. L. {. Kinney, the mother OF Mr.. +. C..
Stedman, and herself a we'll known poet, has
Der home in Newark. Mr.. Stedman lived in
Newark up TO within couple Of years, and
might have been seen any day I'm the week
going 10 and fro on the cars discussing the
rise and fall Of stocks and other brokers, or
creek tragedy, II he Gould get the right sort
OF an audience.
nr. Abraham Coles. author OF The Evan
GEL" and the thirteen TRANSACTIONS OF Tine
Dies lIse,' is practising physician in New
ark. Dr. Coles Is one OF the most learned
Latin scholars in the country, and a. a poet
he ranks nearer such men as Heller, Jeremy
Taylor. and that class OF minds. than any
Thing more modern, and | was going 10 say.
superficial. His hymns and ligious poetry
are Tot only beautiful, but they possess q
quaint simplicity that is, unfortunately, OF
the past.
Amanda NJ Douglass. who is well known
as The author OF popular SuEday-school books
and mild novels, lives at Woodside, a suburb
OF Newark. Virginia +. Townsend, who, at
one time, had a reputation as wide spre al
and somewhat similar TO T. =. Arthur. is
also Newarker, or was up 10 a recent date.
Edmund kirke-ljilmore il his real name
is Newarker. His literary work is not
very high; still his book "Amorg the Pines
was widely read. and favorably received. =
There is lady living in Newark who.
although she makes no claim TO literary dis
tinction, Is the author OF one of the most
sung Sunday school hymns In the land.
When l tell you that she wrote the words
and music OF" II Want TO be an Angel" you
will believe me. She is Miss Kimberley, a
music teacher, and, unless / am very much
mista ken, this is the first time her name has
been published in connection with her onl y
work. If Sunday-school hymns We're as
pro BILE as PUT Me In Ny Little Bed, )" aud
"Silver Threads Among the Gold, J" and other
negro minstrel songs, Miss Kimberly would
to-day be rich woman instead OF a poor
music teacher.
Among the literary people who have until
recently lived in Newark. there il Stedman
X. w. Glider, Of ScribneTs Monthly, and
author OF "The New Day." Robert Lowell,
author OF "Antbony Brade, =" and The New
Priest" and Mrs. Junius Henri Browne, for
merly Miss Lille Gilbert, sister OF Mrs.
Runkle, and correspondent aud story writer
of porularity.