Officers: Alfred Jordan, President; H.H. Abbott, Past President; E. Haworth Earle, J.E. Forty, F. Noble Wood, W.H. Thompson, Vice-Presidents; S. Nicholson, Secretary; Maurice Philip, Treasurer. Council: E.M. Appleton; F.R. Bell; T.H. Gunn; T.H. Leahair; H. Ernest Nichol; E.A. Parsons; G.T. Sampson; S.B. Whitby.

Syllabus:

Smoking Concert, 15 Oct 1923; 'The Philosophic Spirit in Literature' by Alfred Jordan, 22 Oct 1923; 'A Defence of the Victorian Age' by Ven. Archdeacon Lambert, 29 Oct 1923; 'Music and Poetry' by H. Ernest Nichol, 5 Nov 1923; 'The Essays of Elia' by G.T. Sampson, 12 Nov 1923; 'Oliver Wendell Holmes' by Rev T. Hope Scott, 19 Nov 1923; Short Essays in Verse and Prose, 26 Nov 1923; 'Browning: His Life and Philosophy' by Rev A.J. Parkes, 3 Dec 1923; 'Gleanings from 19th Century Biographers' by Percy Pigott, 10 Dec 1923; 'George Eliot' by G. Dudley Harbron, 17 Dec 1923; Yuletide Revels, 21 Dec 1923; Ladies Evening 'Reading - The Importance of Being Ernest' by Hull Shakespeare and Playgoers' Society, 14 Jan 1924; 'The Influence of Thomas Carlyle' by W.H. Thompson, 12 Jan 1924; 'The Victorian Lyric' by J.L. Calvard, 28 Jan 1924; 'George Meredith' by M. Jacobs, 4 Feb 1924; 'Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters' by Rev W.B. Hoult, 11 Feb 1924; Short Essays in Verse and Prose, 18 Feb 1924; 'Philosophical Writers of the Victorian Era' by Rev W. Whitaker, 25 Feb 1924; 'Anthony Trollope' by F.W. Woodcock, 3 Mar 1924; 'The Mid-Victorian Scientific Movement' by H.A. Scruton, 10 Mar 1924; 'Literature and Slang' by Norman Rymer, 17 Mar 1924; 'William Morris' by A.P. Needler, 24 Mar 1924; Review of Session and Annual Meeting, 31 Mar 1924.

Meetings held 8pm at Powolny's Restaurant.