  CHAPTER I | PAGES | 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 | |
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