The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-28
The Eo,,r o,Olock Club.


sought in the selection of subjects
for the session of the -Four O'clock
Club for 1899 There is enough
of that to satisfy the most exaoting.
for their compass reaches from Dan
to Beersheba, from China TO Peru
But that is not tho single charm.
Many of the subjects are peculiar
ly timely and opposite and the
rest cannot fail to be interesting
and attraotively instructive at any
and all times There is happy
blending of poetry and prose, art
and music, history and biography,
folk lore and descriptive narrative,
and lust a little infusion of politics
politics which are sure to be po-
lite and not too very deep.
Nearly every afternoons enter
tainment is prefaced by poeti-
cal quotations, and these at
least display n commondnble
catholicity of taste, for they
range from the sublimity of Shakes
peare. the majesty of Milton and
the grandeur of the melancholy
Florentine down to the glittering
tinsel of the author of "Lalla
Rookh" and the poetess of passion
If it were not for a very whole
some dread of the editors fearful
blue pencil, which, like Bluebeard's
sword, is ready poised to cut off
ever SO many heads of my dis,
course at one fell swoop. | should
like to dwell upon many of the
charming themes these ladies have
selected With what has passed
we need not now concern ourselves,
but the best remains to come. L
must glance at one or two.
"Painters of Italy" { Miss Alice B
NeaIe.) The very name is sugges-
tive of lofty ideals and the noblest
achievements, and teens with glor-
ious color as tho immortal men are
figures of Cimabue, Giotto, Fra An,
gelica, Botticelli, Miohelangelo,
Guido, Perugini, Raphael, Titan,
Paul, Vcronese. Correggio, Leonar-
do ola Vinci and two hundred others
fit before the mind. Then we turn
from these scenes of peaceful effort
and Tranquil greatness to another
very different, suggested by Carl
baldi," Miss Kate b. Stribling) }
Here we will learn the story of the
most daring and successful effort
of revolutionary patriotism in mod
ern history, ending years of dis
tressful perturbation in 1870 with
the unifcation of divided Italy and
the total collapse for all time of the
temporal sovereignty of Rome's au-
gust pontiff. "The Latin Quarter"
Miss Cornelia d. Campbell J
What picture is this! What tab
Ieaux are here conjured up of life
and death, JOY and sorrow, success
and failure, love and hate, jealousy
and friendship all commingled in
one Kaleidoscope mass of color and
romance, yet all real, very real, and
the same to-day as years agone; the
same whether told by Henry Muir
ger or George Du Maurier; the same
in the pages of "La Vie de Bo-
home," or "Trilby." But we can
not linger here; there is still anoth-
er picture in this interesting pano-
rama "The Coffee House Wits,
Miss Josephine Howard } Where
shall we start? With Shakespeare,
Ben Johnson, Beaumont, Drayton
and the others at the Mermaid? ?
Shall we join Addison and Steele,
Swift, Pope, Arbuthnot at Whites?
Shall we visit DIR. Johnson, Garrick,
Reynolds, Goldsmith and Boswell
at the Mttre? Shall we spend an
hour with Sheridan, Coleman and
Foote, or what say you to foregath-
ering with the gentle Ella, Hazlitt,
Coleridge, Leigh, Hunt and South
cy or-but when we commence
where shall we conclude?
And SO it is with all the subjects
chosen, whether it is Japanese
Art" Miss Charlotte B. McCul-
loch,) Paris by Gas.light," (NIiss
Nell b Gilmoro,) Among the
Lakes of Killarney" Miss Ida NJ.
Armstrong; The Flowers of the
Orient" Miss Robecca A. Barbee,
"Mohammed (Miss A. Grace
Gibbons,) Turkish Village Life"
(Miss Sallio Lewis McCulloch. } or
"ManiIla," (Miss Carrie M. Gil
more each has potent and ire
sistible charm which will certainly
be accumulated and developed to