CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

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The Origin of Clubs in Coffee-houses and Taverns.[1]–[32]

CHAPTER II

Curious Clubs of the Past—Pratt’s—Beefsteak Clubs, Old and New[33]–[62]

CHAPTER III

Clubs of St. James’s Street—Boodle’s, Arthur’s, and White’s[63]–[98]

CHAPTER IV

Brooks’s, the Cocoa-tree, and the Thatched House[99]–[134]

CHAPTER V

Changes in Club-Life and Ways[135]–[155]

CHAPTER VI

Elections—Committees—Regulations—Rules[156]–[177]

CHAPTER VII

Late Sittings—Fines—Cards—Characters—Supper Clubs[178]–[208]

CHAPTER VIII

The Travellers’—Oriental—St. James’—Turf—Marlborough—Isthmian —Windham—Bachelors’—Union—Carlton—Junior Carlton—Conservative—Devonshire—Reform[209]–[236]

CHAPTER IX

The National—Oxford and Cambridge—United University—New University—New Oxford and Cambridge—United Service—Army and Navy—Naval and Military—Guards’—Royal Naval Club—Caledonian—Junior Athenæum[237]–[256]

CHAPTER X

The Dilettanti—The Club—Cosmopolitan—Kit-Kat—Royal Societies’—Burlington Fine Arts—Athenæum—Alfred[257]–[284]

CHAPTER XI

The Garrick—Jockey Club at Newmarket—Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes—Conclusion[285]–[310]
Index[311]–[316]