The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-03-09
CLUB STUDIES
NEW BOOK
Twentieth Century Club Re-
views Mary JohnSon's
Audrey"
MRS. HENRI Apply SINGS
Other Social Events of the
Week.
YRS. HENRI Apply SINGS

The art department of the Twentieth
Century club held q pleasant meeting
last Tuesday. Mr. Tanner had lent one Of
the earliest copies of Miss Johnston's
Audrey to the club and the literary
discussion was devoted wholly to q re-
view of this book. In this novel Miss
Johnston has created anew the life Of
colonial Virginia. The characters are
types of that picturesque time and they
stand out as clearly and individually as
our daily acquaintance.
Beautiful brown-eyed Audrey" gra-
cious, lovely Evelyn Byrd of historic
Westover. Howard. Burgess McLeon,
Jean Truelove. the sedate little Quaker
ess, people the foreground of this drama
through which runs the strangely inter
woven threads of destiny. The descrip-
tons of bits Of woodland landscapes are
done with glowing tender coloring and
exquisite finish. One critic goes so far as
to call Audrey literature" and proph-
estes for It a permanent place. As to
that who may say. The reader was ad-
vised to leave unread the last chapter
of the story, though it may leave IN
solved the riddle of Jean Hugar's fatal
existence. Miss Clara Staley read pass
ages from the novel to give the story
and style of Audrey" in condensed
form.
Preceding the study program Mrs.
Henri Apply afforded the ladies much
pleasure by singing a charming little
Spring Song and a dainty ballad, THE
Rose and the Bird" Mrs. Apply is a COM
parativeIy recent addition to the musical
circles Of the city, but her ability and
unassuming manner have already won
her place and positfOn
Mrs. w. Q. Sternberg made an inter-
esting talk on the works of Sansovino and
Canova. Sansovino was the great archi-
teet of the library, which forms the west
side of the Piozzetta and worthily bal
ances the front of the Doges Palace. Sy-
monds says that nothing more noble and
beautiful has been erected IN Italy since
the days OF Ancient Rome. than the
library building, which contained the
splendid library Of the Venetian repub-
lie and which was begun by a legacy
from Petrarch. Sansovino also erected
the building OF the Zecca or ancient
mint at some little distance from the
library on the left. This space was
afterwards built in with the range of
buildings known as the PTOcurite Move
that IS the new official residences for,
the procuratorss who were the principal
officers of the republic Next to the Doge
fined to sephulchral sculpture.
Mrs. NJ. w. Weeks furnished a paper
descriptive of the four principal plague
churches Of Vienna. During the middle
ages the republic was greatly exposed
to the plague owing TO the commercial
intercourse with Levant and whenever an
epidemic occurred the people regarded
the visitation as a divine punishment and
forthwith proceeded to erect q new
church TO an influential microscopy
plague saint. In 1880 a plague carried off
about $50 900 people and as a native offer
ing the republic vowed a church 10 Our
Lady of Health OF Deliverance" which in
Italian is called Santa Maria della Salute
This church is at the entrance of the
Grand Canal and is one of the most
characteristic OF the plague churches.
San Rocco, San Giabbe and San Sebas-
tiono, were also described.
The next meeting of the club will be
held at the home of Mrs. Sternberg. at
which time Miss Harriet Nandivert,
professor Of science at Paramount col