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CHAPTER I
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The Origin of Clubs in Coffee-houses and Taverns. 132
CHAPTER II
Curious Clubs of the Past—Pratt’s—Beefsteak Clubs, Old and New 3362
CHAPTER III
Clubs of St. James’s Street—Boodle’s, Arthur’s, and White’s 6398
CHAPTER IV
Brooks’s, the Cocoa-tree, and the Thatched House 99134
CHAPTER V
Changes in Club-Life and Ways 135155
CHAPTER VI
Elections—Committees—Regulations—Rules 156177
CHAPTER VII
Late Sittings—Fines—Cards—Characters—Supper Clubs 178208
CHAPTER VIII
The Travellers’—Oriental—St. James’—Turf—Marlborough—Isthmian —Windham—Bachelors’—Union—Carlton—Junior Carlton—Conservative—Devonshire—Reform 209236
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 237256
CHAPTER X
The Dilettanti—The Club—Cosmopolitan—Kit-Kat—Royal Societies’—Burlington Fine Arts—AthenÆum—Alfred 257284
CHAPTER XI
The Garrick—Jockey Club at Newmarket—Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes—Conclusion 285310
Index 311316

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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