Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 10 March 1941

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          <ptr target="ukred-31567">"Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41&lt;br/&gt;
	F. E. Pollard in the Chair. &lt;br/&gt;
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed. &lt;br/&gt;
[...] &lt;br/&gt;
3. Violet Clough read an exceedingly interesting paper on “Children’s Literature” 
showing the was it has developed from the “Moral Tales” of Maria Edgeworth 
published at the beginning of the 19th. Century, to the delightful tales by Beatrix 
Potter &amp;amp; A. A. Milne which are read today. The one retrogressive step she thought 
was in the binding of the books, which today seem to come to pieces almost at 
once. All the mothers present agreed with this, so it is no reflection on the Clough 
children in particular although it may be on the modern child in general. &lt;br/&gt;
4. Readings from children’s literature were then given as follows:&lt;br/&gt;
Labour Lost from the Rollo Books. Selected by S. A. Reynolds &amp; read by A. B. 
Dilks. &lt;br/&gt;
“The Fairchild Family” by Mrs. Sherwood read by Mrs. Pollard – this was 
particularly gruesome. &lt;br/&gt;
“Little Women” by Louisa Alcott read by Mary Stansfield. &lt;br/&gt;
Divers examples of children[’]s poetry read by Rosamund Wallis, which included 
an impromptu recitation by Howard Smith of one of Hillair[e] Belloc’s Cautionary 
Tales. &lt;br/&gt;
“Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carrol[l] read by F. E. Pollard. &lt;br/&gt;
“Samuel Whiskers” by Beatrix Potter read by Muriel Stevens. &lt;br/&gt;
“The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo” a Just So Story by Rudyard Kipling, read by 
Howard Smith. &lt;br/&gt;
“The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame read by Margaret Dilks. &lt;br/&gt;
“The House at Pooh Corner” by A. A. Milne, read by A. B. Dilks. &lt;br/&gt;
5. Bruce Dilks sang two of Fraser-Simsons settings of A. A. Milne’s Poems. 
“Christopher Robin Alone in the Dark” and “Happiness”. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
[Signed as a true record of the meeting by] S. A. Reynolds
April 7th / 41"</ptr>
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