The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-01-27
NEWARK LITERATI.

"A correspondent of the Boston Gazette
writes: There are quite number of
we'll known literary people living in New
ark, N. j., although there never was
city that showed less evidence of culture
than that. Nothing ever draws crowd
but prayer meeting or circns. The
best singers or the best actors may 60
there. but seldom make enough to pay
their hall rent. OF literary people living
in that manufacturing town perhaps the
most widely known is Marion Harland.
This popular author is Mrs. E. P. Ter.
hume to Newarkcrs, and she is wife of an
equally popular clergyman of the Dutcn
Reformed Church. Mrs. Tcrhune is a
sort of Lady Bountiful. and is at the
head of almost every charitable under.
taking in Newark. She makes no fuss
or brustle about what she does, but goes
quietly about her work as though her
books did not sell by the $4,000. From
her 'Common Sense in the Household
she has an income Of $4,000 per anum.
That is common sense worth having. If
her novels do proportionately well She is
in fair way to become rich. Mrs. Ter
hume is plain, modest sort Of woman,
. devoted wife and and sincere friend.
She has been very sick all summer, but
is now better.
Mrs: Mary Mapes Dodge, the editor of
St. Nicholas and the author of "Hans
Brinker,' lives on the old Naples place,
just outside Of Newark. This was the
home of her father, Professor James J.
Mapes, and is the great summer visiting.
place of some of our most distinguished
literary people. It is charming place
to visit, and is one of those comf0rtab BILE
country homes that were built before
the:days when ground was so scarce that
all houses and public buildings had to be
shot up into the air, instead of resting
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 right:hand man
Of John Roach, the great ship. builder.
The other, the younger, has just left
Rutgers College, where he had brilliant
career. Mrs. Sophie Naples. Tolles, who
has an enviable reputation as an artist,
makes the old homestead her summer
quarters. Mrs. E. G Kinney, the
mother OF Of MIR. E. 9. Stedman, and her
self a well.known poet, has her home in
Newark. MIR. Stedman lived in Newark
up to couple of years, and might be
seen any day going to and fro on the cars,
discussing the rise and fall of stocks with
other brokers, or Greek tragedy, if he
could get the right sort of an auditor.
DR.. Abraham Coles, author of "The
Evangel," and the thirteen translations
OF "Dies 1r@,' is practising physician in
Newark. DR.. Coles is one Of the most
learned Latin scholars in this country,
and as q poet he ranks nearer such
men as Heber, Jeremy Taylor, and that
class of minds, than anything more
modern: and, I was going to say, super.
hclal. Ills hymns and religious poetry are
not only beautiful, but they possess a
quaint simplicity that is unfortunately of
the past. Amanda NJ. Douglass. who is
we'll known as an author of popular Sum
day school books and mild novels, lives at
Woodside. . suburb Of Newark. virginia
+. Townsend; who at one time had rem.
utation as widespread and somewhat sim.
liar to I. s. Arthur, is also New.rker.
or was, up to recent date. Edmund
Kirk-Gilmore is his real name-is
Ncwarker. His literary work is not
very high, still his book ':Among the
Pines" was widely read and favorably
received.