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Terhune, Albert Payson

journalist, author, was born in 1825 in New Brunswick, N. J. He is the author of Syria from the Saddle, a volume of travels; Columbia Stories, a collection of sketches; and The Great Cedarhurst Mystery.

TERHUNE, MRS. MARY VIRGINIA [HAWES], author, was born in 1830 in Amelia county, Va. She is a popular novelist, lecturer, and writer on domestic topics, and the wife of a Dutch reformed clergyman of New York city. Her work in fiction includes, Alone; Moss-Side; Beechdale; Judith; The Hidden Path; Handicapped; Nemesis; At Last; Helen Gardner's Wedding-Day; Jessamine; With the Best Intentions; True as Steel; Sunnybank; From My Youth Up; My Little Love; A Gallant Fight; The Royal Road; His Great Self; Mr. Wayt's Wife's Sister; Eve's Daughters; and Marion.

Other works of hers are, Common Sense in the Household, a widely known manual of housewifery; Common Sense in the Nursery; The Cottage Kitchen; The Dinner Year-Book; Breakfast, Luncheon, and Tea; The Story of Mary Washington; and Loitering in Pleasant Paths.