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]