There are Reading and News Rooms belonging to a large number of learned societies and public institutions; but these are for the most part accessible only to members.
CHESS ROOMS.
A chess player may meet with competitors at any one of the several chess rooms. The best are Simpson’s, (Limited Co.,) late Ries’s, Divan, opposite Exeter Hall, Strand; Kilpack’s, Covent Garden, (also an American Bowling Saloon;) and Pursell’s, Cornhill. Many Coffee-shops are provided with chess-boards and men, and many dining and chop houses have chess-rooms up-stairs.
THEATRES.
There are at present about thirty-seven London Theatres, but those named below are all that need here be considered.
| Adelphi
| Strand.
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| Alhambra
| Leicester Square.
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| Astley’s Amphitheatre
| 6½ Bridge Road, Lambeth.
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| Royal Amphitheatre
| Holborn.
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| Britannia Theatre
| Hoxton Old Town.
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| Charing Cross
| King William Street, Strand.
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| City of London
| 36 Norton Folgate.
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| Covent Garden, (Opera House)
| Bow Street.
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| Court Theatre
| Sloane Square.
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| Drury Lane
| Brydges Street.
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| Gaiety
| Strand.
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| Garrick
| Leman Street, Goodman’s Fields.
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| Globe
| Strand.
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| Grecian
| City Road.
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| Great Eastern
| Whitechapel Road.
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| Haymarket
| East side of Haymarket.
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| Holborn
| Holborn.
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| King’s Cross
| Liverpool Street, King’s Cross.
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| Her Majesty’s, (Opera House)
| West side of Haymarket.
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| Lyceum
| Wellington Street, Strand.
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| Marylebone
| New Church Street, Lisson Grove.
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| Olympic
| Wych Street, Drury Lane.
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| Opera Comique
| Strand.
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| Pavilion
| 85 Whitechapel Road.
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| Philharmonic
| Islington.
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| Princess’s
| 73 Oxford Street.
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| Prince of Wales’s
| 4 and 5 Tottenham Street.
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| Queen’s, (late St. Martin’s Hall)
| Longacre.
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| Royalty, or Soho
| 73 Dean Street, Soho.
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| Sadler’s Wells
| St. John’s Street Road.
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| St. James’s
| 23 King Street, St. James’s.
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| Standard
| 204 Shoreditch, High Street.
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| Strand
| Between 168 and 169 Strand.
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| Surrey
| 124 Blackfriars Road.
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| Vaudeville
| Strand.
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| Victoria
| 135 Waterloo Road.
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CONCERT ROOMS.
Willis’s Rooms, King Street, St. James’s.
Hanover Square Rooms.
Exeter Hall, 372 Strand, Choral Societies, Sacred Harmonic, &c.