The Modern Need of the Ideal: An Address Delivered at the Seventh Annual Salon of the Women's Literary Club of Baltimore June the 2nd, 1896

by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

Excerpt from The Modern Need of the Ideal

What is this spirit, or atmosphere? Is it wholly one of investigation in the various lines that attract us, to the end of more accurate knowledge only? Then why a Woman's Club, with its few hours and its handful of stu dents, dealing with specialties for which universities are far better equipped?

28 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2018

About the author

Francese Hubbard Litchfield (Mrs. Lawrence) Turnbull (c1845-1927) was an American author. She was the wife of Lawrence Turnbull (1821-1900), an American publisher. Her works include: The Golden Book of Venice (1900) and The Royal Pawn of Venice (1911).