London Clubs
by Ralph Nevill
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About this eBook
- Author
- Nevill, Ralph, 1865-1930
- Title
- London Clubs: Their History & Treasures
- Credits
- Produced by deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HS: Social sciences: Societies: secret, benevolent, etc.
- Subject
- Clubs -- England -- London
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 60472
- Release Date
- October 12, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.LONDON CLUBS
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF CLUBS IN COFFEE-HOUSES AND TAVERNS
- 5.CHAPTER II CURIOUS CLUBS OF THE PAST—PRATT’S—BEEFSTEAK CLUBS, OLD AND NEW
- 6.CHAPTER III CLUBS OF ST. JAMES’S STREET—BOODLE’S, ARTHUR’S, AND WHITE’S
- 7.CHAPTER IV BROOKS’S, THE COCOA-TREE, AND THE THATCHED HOUSE
- 8.CHAPTER V CHANGES IN CLUB-LIFE AND WAYS
- 9.CHAPTER VI ELECTIONS—COMMITTEES—REGULATIONS—RULES
- 10.CHAPTER VII LATE SITTINGS—FINES—CARDS—CHARACTERS—SUPPER CLUBS
- 11.CHAPTER VIII THE TRAVELLERS’—ORIENTAL—ST. JAMES’—TURF—MARLBOROUGH —ISTHMIAN—WINDHAM—BACHELORS’—UNION—CARLTON—JUNIOR CARLTON—CONSERVATIVE—DEVONSHIRE—REFORM
- 12.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
- 13.CHAPTER X THE DILETTANTI—THE CLUB—COSMOPOLITAN —KIT-KAT—ROYAL SOCIETIES’—BURLINGTON FINE ARTS—ATHENÆUM—ALFRED
- 14.CHAPTER XI THE GARRICK—JOCKEY CLUB AT NEWMARKET—ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON AT COWES—CONCLUSION
- 15.INDEX
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