Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-03-27
rwEHrlErA CENTURY cLus.
interesting Meeting, at Which Or,
Farr Delivered Fine Talk,

interesting Meeting, at Which Or.
Farr Delivered Fine Talk. 81.
The Twentieth Century Club met on
Monday. March %, at the home OF Mrs,
Geo. X. Broome.
After the transaction OF routine
business. Mrs. Tench, the leader for
the afternoon, introduced DR., jas. NJ,
Farr. Of the University OF Florida,
who had consented to read paper
before the club.
Dr. FAIR began by giving a rapid
sketch OF the salient features OF Eng
lish literature as distinguished from
the other literatures of the world, Its
unique place is due to the wonderful
continuity of production from the
splendid beginning OF the eighth cen
fury to the voluminous output of our
own age. Yet this continuity Is not
OF uniform excellence nor OF hopeless
mediocrity: II has been along what
the scientists call the lines OF wave
motion. Great epochs have occurred At
itful intervals, which. however, have
always been at times In which the po-
lItical and intellectual life OF the nation
has been most active aud vigorous, Five
times IN the history OF this literature
has the crest OF the wave been
reached. which times may be- called
the ages OF Beowulf CHANGER. Shakes
peare, Milton and OF Eliot and Ten
nyson.
Taking only the greatest writer's OF
each OF these most glorious ages and
considering these the mOuthpiece OF
their times. ting speaker proceeded TO
discuss the Evolution OF the Ideal
Woman in English Literature
He showed how. IN the Anglo Saxon
BeoWulf. we find women pictured Ra
the queen OF the household, delighting
In her domestic duties. secondlng her
lord hospitality. and surrounding her
family with loving care. Here al the
very beginning are seen all those
qualities OF mind and soul which later
On are developed IN our literature 10
perfection
Passing on he selected GuSelda a.
CHANGERS ideal Of woman And this
Ideal woman IL still not only the faith.
ful wife. discharging her domestic
duties in simple loyaltys but she ia
also the suffering woman, one capable
of patient resignation and devoted
loyc--the old ideal more fully develop
"A aud ia n higher state Of perfection.
The emotional element has been added |
to the purely domestic, the tsni0nle
conception enlarged aud ennoblcd by
pain and suffering Hut abe ID stu
subjected 90 the So-callcd lords ~
creation
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t0ach the greatest herolnes Of Shakes.
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century Ia the Merchant ~ venloe-
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