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XII Book Club Book Selection Committee : [List of twelve books proposed for purchase by the book club]
Meeting held at 30, Northcourt Avenue: 15.XI.32
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved
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5. The Secretary then performed the invidious task of putting the dozen books favoured by the Selection Committee before the Meeting.
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The other seeded books then underwent their ordeal and the subsidiary list was read a first time.
[...]
Nevertheless twelve books emerged with no less than 11 votes apiece. They are:
They were defeated R. Macaulay 8/6 E. T. Alexander
The Cruel Victorians Forty Authors 8/6 H. R. Smith
Flowering Wilderness J. Galsworthy 7/6 C. E. Stansfield
The New Morality G. E. Newsom 6/- G. Burrow
Sir W. Scott[?] Buchan 9/6 G. Burrow
Strawberry Roan A. G. Street 7/6 E. D. Brain
Bonnie Prince Charlie Wickinson 12/6 R. H. Robson
Nansen Reynolds 10/6 E. D. Brain
As we are E. F. Benson 15/- E. C. Stevens
Northern Lights Chapman 18/- M. S. Stansfield
Youth looks at the World Fletcher 7/6 H. M. Wallis
Land and Labour in China Tawney 7/6 S. A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander Manuscript: Unknown
XII Book Club Book Selection Committee : [Subsidiary list of books to be considered for purchase by the XII Book Club]
Meeting held at 30, Northcourt Avenue: 15.XI.32
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
5. The Secretary then performed the invidious task of putting the dozen books favoured by the Selection Committee before the Meeting.
[...]
The other seeded books then underwent their ordeal and the subsidiary list was read a first time.
[...]
Nevertheless twelve books emerged with no less than 11 votes apiece. They are:
They were defeated R. Macaulay 8/6 E. T. Alexander
The Cruel Victorians Forty Authors 8/6 H. R. Smith
Flowering Wilderness J. Galsworthy 7/6 C. E. Stansfield
The New Morality G. E. Newsom 6/- G. Burrow
Sir W. Scott[?] Buchan 9/6 G. Burrow
Strawberry Roan A. G. Street 7/6 E. D. Brain
Bonnie Prince Charlie Wickinson 12/6 R. H. Robson
Nansen Reynolds 10/6 E. D. Brain
As we are E. F. Benson 15/- E. C. Stevens
Northern Lights Chapman 18/- M. S. Stansfield
Youth looks at the World Fletcher 7/6 H. M. Wallis
Land and Labour in China Tawney 7/6 S. A. Reynolds
