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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Club Life of London, Vol. I (of 2) - With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of - the Metropolis During the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries - -Author: John Timbs - -Release Date: October 23, 2012 [EBook #41146] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CLUB LIFE OF LONDON, VOL. I (OF 2) *** - - - - -Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41146 ***</div> <div class="tnbox"> <p class="center"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></p> @@ -660,7 +620,7 @@ multitudinous contents of the Work. </tr> <tr> -<td>ATHENÆUM CLUB</td> +<td>ATHENÆUM CLUB</td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_241">241</a></td> </tr> @@ -857,7 +817,7 @@ of fifteen persons each, and all vacancies were filled up by ballot, in which unanimous consent was indispensable for election; and the other laws, as described by Plutarch, differ but slightly from those of modern Clubs. -Justus Lipsius mentions a bonâ fide Roman Club, the +Justus Lipsius mentions a bonâ fide Roman Club, the members of which were bound by certain organized rules and regulations. Cicero records (<i>De Senectute</i>) the pleasure he took in frequenting the meetings of those @@ -916,10 +876,10 @@ a jovial company.</p> <p>Still, we do not yet find the term "Club." Mr. Carlyle, in his <i>History of Frederick the Great</i>, assumes -that the vow of the Chivalry Orders—<i>Gelübde</i>—in vogue +that the vow of the Chivalry Orders—<i>Gelübde</i>—in vogue about <span class="s08">A.D.</span> 1190, "passed to us in a singularly dwindled condition: Club we now call it." To this it is objected -that the mere resemblance in sound of <i>Gelübde</i> and +that the mere resemblance in sound of <i>Gelübde</i> and <i>Club</i> is inconclusive, for the Orders of Templars, Hospitallers, and Prussian Knights, were never called clubs in England; and the origin of the noun need not be sought @@ -1117,7 +1077,7 @@ repaired, with Shakspeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Selden, Cotton, Carew, Martin, Donne, and many others, whose names, even at this distant period, call up a mingled feeling of reverence and respect." But this is -doubted. A writer in the <i>Athenæum</i>, Sept. 16, 1865, +doubted. A writer in the <i>Athenæum</i>, Sept. 16, 1865, states: "The origin of the common tale of Raleigh founding the Mermaid Club, of which Shakspeare is said to have been a member, has not been traced. Is it older @@ -1264,7 +1224,7 @@ medicina</i>." Aubrey reports his uncle Danvers to have said that "Ben Jonson, to be near the Devil tavern, in King James's time, lived without Temple-barre, at a combemaker's shop, about the Elephant and Castle;" -and James, Lord Scudamore has, in his <i>Homer à la +and James, Lord Scudamore has, in his <i>Homer à la Mode</i>, a travesty, said—</p> <div class="poem"> @@ -1291,8 +1251,8 @@ Shakspeare and Beaumont used to meet him. He most probably had it all to himself."</p> <p>In the Rules of the Apollo Club, women of character -were not excluded from attending the meetings—<i>Probæ -feminæ non repudiantur</i>. Marmion, one of Jonson's +were not excluded from attending the meetings—<i>Probæ +feminæ non repudiantur</i>. Marmion, one of Jonson's contemporary dramatists, describes him in his presidential chair, as "the boon Delphic god:"— <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">14</a></span></p> @@ -1540,7 +1500,7 @@ warmly, that it was waived. Danby is not above twenty, and we will have no more boys; and we want but two to make up our number. I staid till eight, and then we all went away soberly. The Duke of Ormond's -treat last week cost £20, though it was only four dishes +treat last week cost £20, though it was only four dishes and four without a dessert; and I bespoke it in order to be cheap. Yet I could not prevail to change the house. Lord Treasurer is in a rage with us for being @@ -1814,7 +1774,7 @@ further mischief. The <i>Weekly Chronicle</i> of February 1, pounds,' and that the guards were posted all night in the street, for the security of the neighbourhood."</p> -<p>In L'Abbé Le Blanc's Letters we find this account +<p>In L'Abbé Le Blanc's Letters we find this account of the affair:—"Some young men of quality chose to abandon themselves to the debauchery of drinking healths on the 30th of January, a day appointed by @@ -2142,7 +2102,7 @@ the honour to be called a <i>Protestant Flail</i>. The handles resembled a farrier's blood-stick, and the fall was joined to the end by a strong nervous ligature, that, in its swing, fell just short of the hand, and was made of -<i>Lignum Vitæ</i>, or rather, as the Poets termed it, <i>Mortis</i>." +<i>Lignum Vitæ</i>, or rather, as the Poets termed it, <i>Mortis</i>." This engine was "for street and crowd-work, and lurking perdue in a coat-pocket, might readily sally out to execution; and so, by clearing a great Hall or Piazza, @@ -2264,7 +2224,7 @@ general sally, and attack all who were in the streets. Some were knocked down, others stabbed, and others cut and carbonadoed. To put the watch to a total rout, and mortify some of those inoffensive militia, was reckoned a -<i>coup d'éclat</i>. They had special barbarities, which they +<i>coup d'éclat</i>. They had special barbarities, which they executed upon their prisoners. "Tipping the lion" was squeezing the nose flat to the face, and boring out the eyes with their fingers. "Dancing-masters" were those @@ -3141,7 +3101,7 @@ have mended thereby, we must not repine.</p> <p>Here lived Sir Charles Sedley; and here his son, the dramatic poet, was born, "neere the Globe." Here, too, -lived Elias Ashmole, and here Antony à Wood dined +lived Elias Ashmole, and here Antony à Wood dined with him: this was at the upper end of the lane. Here, too, was the <i>Trumpet</i> tavern, where Isaac Bickerstaff met his Club. At this house he dated a great number @@ -3405,11 +3365,11 @@ his account. Thus, besides gratuities to cooks, there are numerous chronicled entries of the following tenour:—"Keeper's fees and carriage of a buck from the Hon. P. Yorke, 14<i>s.</i>; Fees, etc., for Venison and -Salmon, £1. 15<i>s.</i>; Do., half a Buck from the Earl of +Salmon, £1. 15<i>s.</i>; Do., half a Buck from the Earl of <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">71</a></span> -Hardwick, £1. 5<i>s.</i>; Fees and carriage for a Buck from -H. Read, Esq., £1.3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>; Fees for Venison and Game -from Mr. Banks, £1. 9<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>; ... August 15, 1751. +Hardwick, £1. 5<i>s.</i>; Fees and carriage for a Buck from +H. Read, Esq., £1.3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>; Fees for Venison and Game +from Mr. Banks, £1. 9<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>; ... August 15, 1751. The Society being this day entertained with halfe a Bucke by the Most Hon<sup>ble</sup> the Marquis of Rockingham, it was agreed, <i>nem. con.</i>, to drink his health in claret. @@ -3504,7 +3464,7 @@ expense of wine, over and above the charge of the tavern bills.</p> <p>In 1775, the wine was ordered to be laid in at a price -not exceeding £45 a pipe, or 1<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> a bottle; to have +not exceeding £45 a pipe, or 1<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> a bottle; to have a particular seal upon the cork, and to be charged by the landlord at 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> a bottle. The Club always dined on the Society's meeting-day. Wray, writing of a Club-meeting @@ -3551,7 +3511,7 @@ a pot of porter;" and "that when toasted cheese was called for, he was to make a charge for it."</p> <p>In 1784, the celebrated geologist, Faujas de Saint-Fond -(Barthélemy,) with four other distinguished foreigners, +(Barthélemy,) with four other distinguished foreigners, partook of the hospitality of the Club, of <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">75</a></span> which, in 1797, M. Faujas published an account. "He @@ -3578,7 +3538,7 @@ the table."</p> <p>The dinner-charges appear to have gradually progressed from 1<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> to 10<i>s.</i> per head. In 1858-9 the Club-dinners had been 25, and the number of dinners -309, so that the mean was equal to 12·36 for each +309, so that the mean was equal to 12·36 for each meeting, the visitors amounting to 49; and it is further computed, that the average wine per head of late, waste included, is a considerable fraction less than a pint, imperial @@ -3716,7 +3676,7 @@ mere consequence of relationship, and not at all owing to any flowers or powers of conversation at the Royal Society Club."</p> -<p>Admiral Smyth, to whose admirable <i>précis</i> of the +<p>Admiral Smyth, to whose admirable <i>précis</i> of the History of the Club we have to make acknowledgment, remarks that the hospitality of the Royal Society has been "of material utility to the well-working of the @@ -3733,7 +3693,7 @@ to the table, numerous foreign grandees, prelates, ambassadors, and persons of distinction—from the King of Poland and Baron Munchausen, down to the smart little <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">80</a></span> -abbé and a 'gentleman unknown'—are found upon +abbé and a 'gentleman unknown'—are found upon the Club records. Not that the amenities of the fraternity were confined to these classes, or that, in the Clubbian sense, they form the most important order; for @@ -3774,11 +3734,11 @@ exceed ten shillings.</p> 1860, shows that the number of dinners for the past year amounted to 25, at which the attendance was 312 persons, 62 of whom were visitors, the average being -= 12·48 each time: and the Treasurer called attention += 12·48 each time: and the Treasurer called attention to the fact that out of the Club funds in the last twelvemonth, -they had paid not less than £9. 6<i>s.</i> for soda and -seltzer water; £8. 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> for cards of invitation and -postage; and £25 for visitors, that is, 8<i>s.</i> 0¾<i>d.</i> per head.</p> +they had paid not less than £9. 6<i>s.</i> for soda and +seltzer water; £8. 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> for cards of invitation and +postage; and £25 for visitors, that is, 8<i>s.</i> 0¾<i>d.</i> per head.</p> <hr class="l15" /> @@ -3821,9 +3781,9 @@ jumped into the ministry, make a very singular medley of their old principles and language with their modern ones." At this time, bribery was in full swing: it is alleged that the lowest bribe for a vote upon the Peace -of Fontainebleau, was a bank-note of £200; and that +of Fontainebleau, was a bank-note of £200; and that the Secretary of the Treasury afterwards acknowledged -£25,000 to have been thus expended in a single morning. +£25,000 to have been thus expended in a single morning. And in 1765, on the debate in the Commons on the Regency Bill, we read in the <i>Chatham Correspondence</i>: "The Cocoa-tree have thus capacitated Her @@ -3904,7 +3864,7 @@ Almack's," writes Walpole to Mann, February 2, 1770, of our empire, or commonwealth, which you please. The young men of the age lose ten, fifteen, twenty thousand pounds in an evening there. Lord Stavordale, -not one-and-twenty, lost £11,000 there last Tuesday, +not one-and-twenty, lost £11,000 there last Tuesday, but recovered it by one great hand at hazard. He swore a great oath, 'Now, if I had been playing <i>deep</i>, I might have won millions.' His cousin, Charles Fox, @@ -3923,8 +3883,8 @@ the rage of play, I have found more entertainment and rational society than in any other club to which I belong."</p> -<p>The play was certainly high—only for rouleaus of £50 -each, and generally there was £10,000 in specie on the +<p>The play was certainly high—only for rouleaus of £50 +each, and generally there was £10,000 in specie on the table. The gamesters began by pulling off their embroidered clothes, and put on frieze greatcoats, or turned their coats inside outwards for luck. They put on pieces @@ -3963,8 +3923,8 @@ the leading clubs—Miles's and Evans's, Brookes's and Boodle's, White's and Goosetree's. The latter was Wilberforce's usual resort, where his friendship with Pitt, whom he had slightly known at Cambridge, greatly increased: -he once lost £100 at the faro-table, and on -another night kept the bank, by which he won £600; +he once lost £100 at the faro-table, and on +another night kept the bank, by which he won £600; but he soon became weaned from play.</p> <hr class="l15" /> @@ -4017,7 +3977,7 @@ hour-glass."</p> lords and ladies who first met at a tavern, but subsequently, to satisfy Lady Pembroke's scruples, in a room at Almack's. "The ladies nominate and choose the -gentlemen and <i>vice versâ</i>, so that no lady can exclude a +gentlemen and <i>vice versâ</i>, so that no lady can exclude a lady, or gentleman a gentleman." Ladies Rochford, Harrington, and Holderness were black-balled, as was the Duchess of Bedford, who was subsequently admitted! @@ -4299,7 +4259,7 @@ being "too unwary in ridiculing and exposing them." He gave full swing to Charles in his youth: "let nothing be done," said his Lordship, "to break his spirit; the world will do that for him." (<i>Selwyn.</i>) At his death, in -1774, he left him £154,000 to pay his debts; it was all +1774, he left him £154,000 to pay his debts; it was all bespoke, and Fox soon became as deeply pledged as before.</p> @@ -4399,7 +4359,7 @@ them. Dunning was a short, thick man, with a turn-up nose, a constant shake of the head, and latterly a distressing hectic cough—but a wit of the first water. Though he died at the comparatively early age of fifty-two, -he amassed a fortune of £150,000 during twenty-five +he amassed a fortune of £150,000 during twenty-five years' practice at the bar; and lived notwithstanding, so liberally, that his mother, an attorney's widow, some of the wags at Brookes's wickedly recorded, left @@ -5096,7 +5056,7 @@ would outlive the old Duchess of Cleveland."</p> <p>"One of the youth at White's," writes Walpole to Mann, July 10, 1744, "has committed a murder, and -intends to repeat it. He betted £1500 that a man +intends to repeat it. He betted £1500 that a man could live twelve hours under water; hired a desperate fellow, sunk him in a ship, by way of experiment, and both ship and man have not appeared since. Another @@ -5228,7 +5188,7 @@ necessary, it came to be considered that the front was of too plain a character, when contrasted with the many elegant buildings which had risen up around it. Mr. Lockyer was consulted by Mr. Raggett as to the possibility -of improving the façade; and under his direction, +of improving the façade; and under his direction, four bas-reliefs, representing the four seasons, which occupy the place of four sashes, were designed by Mr. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">121</a></span> @@ -6218,8 +6178,8 @@ the names of antiquity, such as Ajax, Archimedes, and others equally well known. Bolland remarked that when Swift was looking out for those humorous quibbles, it was singular that it should never have occurred -to him that among the shades that accost Æneas in the -sixth book of the Æneid, there was a Scotchman of the +to him that among the shades that accost Æneas in the +sixth book of the Æneid, there was a Scotchman of the name of Hugh Forbes. Those who had read Virgil began to stare. "It is quite plain," said Bolland: "the ghost exclaims, 'Olim Euphorbus eram.'"</p> @@ -6618,7 +6578,7 @@ ninety-third year; his illness, which was only of four days, was internal inflammation. The attainment of so great an age, and the recollection of Morris's associations, show him to have presented a rare combination of -mirth and prudence. He retained his <i>gaîté de cœur</i> to +mirth and prudence. He retained his <i>gaîté de cœur</i> to the last; so that with equal truth he remonstrated:</p> <div class="poem"> @@ -6896,7 +6856,7 @@ the entry:—</p> <table summary="Bill"> <tr> <td> </td> -<td class="tdc"><i>£.</i></td> +<td class="tdc"><i>£.</i></td> <td class="tdc"><i>s.</i></td> <td class="tdc"><i>d.</i></td> </tr> @@ -7011,7 +6971,7 @@ were Scarlett (afterwards Lord Abinger); Rogers, the poet; honest John Allen, brother of the bluest of the blues, Lady Mackintosh; M. Dumont, the French emigrant, who would sometimes recite his friend the -Abbé de Lisle's verses, with interminable perseverance, +Abbé de Lisle's verses, with interminable perseverance, in spite of yawns and other symptoms of dislike, which his own politeness (for he was a highly-bred man) forbade him to interpret into the absence of it in others.</p> @@ -7410,7 +7370,7 @@ Fellows' Club; the Humbugs (held at the Blue Posts, in Covent-Garden); the Samsonic Society; the Society of Bucks; the Purl Drinkers; the Society of Pilgrims (held at the Woolpack, in the Kingsland-road); the Thespian -Club; the Great Bottle Club; the Je ne sçai quoi Club +Club; the Great Bottle Club; the Je ne sçai quoi Club (held at the Star and Garter in Pall-Mall, and of which the Prince of Wales, and the Dukes of York, Clarence, Orleans, Norfolk, Bedford, etc., were members); the @@ -7586,7 +7546,7 @@ to hear such men as Fordyce, Gower, and Buchan in familiar chat. On subjects of medicine they seldom agreed, and when such were started, they generally laughed at one another's opinions. They seemed to consider -Chapter punch, or brandy-and-water, as <i>aqua vitæ</i>; +Chapter punch, or brandy-and-water, as <i>aqua vitæ</i>; and, to the credit of the house, better punch could not be found in London. If any one complained of being indisposed, the elder Buchan exclaimed, "Now let me @@ -7742,7 +7702,7 @@ who claimed the title of founder of the Club, suggested the holding of a convivial meeting at the St. Alban's Tavern after the sale of June 17th, upon which day was to be sold the rarest lot, "Il Decamerone di Boccaccio," -which produced £2260. The invitation ran thus:—"The +which produced £2260. The invitation ran thus:—"The honour of your company is requested, to dine with the Roxburghe <i>dinner</i>, on Wednesday, the 17th instant." At the first dinner the number of members was limited @@ -7768,7 +7728,7 @@ many copies as members."</p> of the Club were not more important than the literature. They were given at the St. Alban's, at Grillion's, at the Clarendon, and the Albion, taverns; the <i>Amphytrions</i> -evincing as <i>recherché</i> taste in the <i>carte</i>, as the Club did +evincing as <i>recherché</i> taste in the <i>carte</i>, as the Club did in their vellum reprints. Of these entertainments some curious details have been recorded by the late Mr. Joseph Haslewood, one of the members, in a MS. entitled, @@ -7776,7 +7736,7 @@ Joseph Haslewood, one of the members, in a MS. entitled, Annual Display, culinary and festivous, interspersed incidentally with Matters of Moment or Merriment." This MS. was, in 1833, purchased by the Editor of the -<i>Athenæum</i>, and a selection from its rarities was subsequently +<i>Athenæum</i>, and a selection from its rarities was subsequently printed in that journal. Among the memoranda, we find it noted that, at the second dinner, a few tarried, with Mr. Heber in the chair, until, "on arriving @@ -7789,9 +7749,9 @@ Robin-Hood ditties and similar productions. The fourth dinner was given at Grillion's, when twenty members assembled, under the chairmanship of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes. The bill on this occasion amounted to -£57, or £2. 17<i>s.</i> per man; and the twenty "lions" +£57, or £2. 17<i>s.</i> per man; and the twenty "lions" managed to dispose of drinkables to the extent of about -£33. The reckoning, by Grillion's French waiter, is +£33. The reckoning, by Grillion's French waiter, is amusing:—</p> <p class="center"><b>Dinner du 17 Juin 1815.</b></p> <table summary="Dinner Menu"> @@ -7927,7 +7887,7 @@ the Rev. Mr. Carr <i>vice</i>, vice Dr. Dibdin. Although only fifteen sat down, they seem to have eaten and drunk for the whole Club: it was, as Wordsworth says, "forty feeding like one;" and the bill, at the conclusion of the -night, amounted to £85. 9<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> "Your cits," says +night, amounted to £85. 9<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> "Your cits," says Mr. Haslewood, "are the only men for a feast; and, therefore, behold us, like locusts, travelling to devour the good things of the land, eastward ho! At a little @@ -7958,7 +7918,7 @@ sat down." <td class="tdcbill">Ham.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td class="tdcbill">Sauté of Haddock.</td> +<td class="tdcbill">Sauté of Haddock.</td> <td class="tdcbill">Chartreuse.</td> </tr> <tr> @@ -8023,7 +7983,7 @@ sat down." </tr> <tr> <td class="tdcbill">Salade Italienne.</td> -<td class="tdcbill">Crême Italienne.</td> +<td class="tdcbill">Crême Italienne.</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> @@ -8291,13 +8251,13 @@ lie quiet under the table for once, and let a few moderns be uppermost.</p> <p>"According to the long-established principles of -'Maysterre Cockerre,' each person had £5. 14<i>s.</i> to pay—a +'Maysterre Cockerre,' each person had £5. 14<i>s.</i> to pay—a tremendous sum, and much may be said thereon."</p> <p>Earl Spencer presided at the dinner which followed the sale of the Valdarfer Boccaccio: twenty-one members -sat down to table at Jaquière's (the Clarendon), and -the bill was comparatively moderate, £55. 13<i>s.</i> Mr. +sat down to table at Jaquière's (the Clarendon), and +the bill was comparatively moderate, £55. 13<i>s.</i> Mr. Haslewood says, with characteristic sprightliness: "Twenty-one members met joyfully, dined comfortably, challenged eagerly, tippled prettily, divided regretfully, @@ -8309,7 +8269,7 @@ first Dinner, in 1812:—</p> <p class="center p2"><span class="b13">The Order of y<sup>e</sup> Tostes.</span><br /><br /> The Immortal Memory of John Duke of Roxburghe.<br /> Christopher Valdarfer, Printer of the Decameron of 1471.<br /> -Gutemberg, Fust, and Schæffher, the Inventors of +Gutemberg, Fust, and Schæffher, the Inventors of the Art of Printing. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">192</a></span> William Caxton, the Father of the British Press. @@ -8345,12 +8305,12 @@ these <i>soi-disant</i> maniacs, at one, two, or three hundred pounds, though the copies were not really worth more than threepence per pound. A trumpery edition of Boccaccio, said to be one of two known copies, was thus -bought by a noble marquis for £1475, though in two or -three years afterwards he resold it for £500. First +bought by a noble marquis for £1475, though in two or +three years afterwards he resold it for £500. First editions of all authors, and editions by the first clumsy <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">193</a></span> -printers, were never sold for less than £50, £100, or -£200.</p> +printers, were never sold for less than £50, £100, or +£200.</p> <p>"To keep each other in countenance, these persons formed themselves into a club, and, after a Duke, one of @@ -8414,7 +8374,7 @@ Admiral Keppel's Action off Ushant, and his acquittal after a court-martial; the Battle of the Nile; the Repulse of Admiral Linois, 1804; the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805; the Action between the San Fiorenzo and La -Piémontaise, 1808; the Battle of Waterloo, 1815; the +Piémontaise, 1808; the Battle of Waterloo, 1815; the Bombardment of Algiers, 1816; View of the House of Lords at the Trial of Queen Caroline; the Coronation of George IV.; and his Visit to Scotland, 1822.</p> @@ -8459,9 +8419,9 @@ box with Master Leeds until the end of the suit. Three years of litigation ensued. Eventually the Chancellor directed the Box to be restored to the Overseers' Society, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">196</a></span> -and Mr. Read paid in costs £300. The extra -costs amounted to £76. 13<i>s.</i> 11<i>d.</i>, owing to the illegal -proceedings of Mr. Read. The sum of £91. 7<i>s.</i> was +and Mr. Read paid in costs £300. The extra +costs amounted to £76. 13<i>s.</i> 11<i>d.</i>, owing to the illegal +proceedings of Mr. Read. The sum of £91. 7<i>s.</i> was at once raised; and the surplus spent upon a third case, of octagon shape. The top records the triumph: Justice trampling upon a prostrate man, from whose face a @@ -9439,19 +9399,19 @@ constant correspondence with the Society.</p> <p>The party embarked on June 9, 1764, in the <i>Anglicana</i>, bound for Constantinople, and were just at the Dardanelles -on the 25th of August. Having visited the Sigæan +on the 25th of August. Having visited the Sigæan Promontory, the ruins of Troas, with the islands of Tenedos and Scio, they arrived at the Smyrna on the 11th of September. From that city, as their head-quarters, they made several excursions. On the 20th of August, 1765, they sailed from Smyrna, and arrived at Athens on the 30th of the same month, having touched at -Sunium and Ægina on their way. They staid at Athens +Sunium and Ægina on their way. They staid at Athens till June 11, 1766, visiting Marathon, Eleusis, Salamis, Megara, and other places in the neighbourhood. Leaving Athens, they proceeded by the little island of Calauria to Trezene, Epidaurus, Argos, and Corinth. From this -they visited Delphi, Patræ, Elis, and Zante, whence they +they visited Delphi, Patræ, Elis, and Zante, whence they sailed on the 31st of August, and arrived in England on <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">224</a></span> the 2nd of November following, bringing with them an @@ -9461,12 +9421,12 @@ magnificent volumes of <i>Ionian Antiquities</i>. The results of the expedition were also the two popular works, Chandler's Travels in Asia Minor, 1775; and his <i>Travels in Greece</i>, in the following year; also, the volume of -Greek Inscriptions, 1774, containing the Sigæan inscription, +Greek Inscriptions, 1774, containing the Sigæan inscription, the marble of which has been since brought to England by Lord Elgin; and the celebrated documents containing the reconstruction of the Temple of Minerva Polias, which Professor Wilkins illustrated in his <i>Prolusiones -Architectonicæ</i>, 1837.</p> +Architectonicæ</i>, 1837.</p> <p>Walpole, in 1791, has this odd passage upon the <i>Ionian Antiquities</i>: "They who are industrious and correct, @@ -9503,7 +9463,7 @@ represent as absurd. In assuming, however, the name of "Dilettanti" they evidently attached to it no light and superficial notion. The use of that word as one of disparagement or ridicule is quite recent. The same -may be said of "Virtù," which, in the artistic sense, +may be said of "Virtù," which, in the artistic sense, does not seem to be strictly academical, but that of "Virtuoso" is so, undoubtedly, and it means the "capable" man,—the man who has a right to judge on @@ -9580,7 +9540,7 @@ England was enriched with the fullest and most accurate descriptions of important remains of ancient art hitherto given to the world.</p> -<p>The contributions of the Society to the æsthetic +<p>The contributions of the Society to the æsthetic studies of the time also deserve notice. The excellent design to publish <i>Select Specimens of Antient Sculpture preserved in the several Collections of Great Britain</i> was @@ -9800,7 +9760,7 @@ to marry a <i>valet-de-chambre</i>!" "Ah," replied Talleyrand, honours."</p> <p>The present Travellers' Club-house, which adjoins the -Athenæum in Pall-Mall, was designed by Barry, R.A., +Athenæum in Pall-Mall, was designed by Barry, R.A., and built in 1832. It is one of the architect's most admired works. Yet, we have seen it thus treated, with <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">234</a></span> @@ -9810,7 +9770,7 @@ gigantic neighbours:—</p> <p>"The Travellers' is worse, and looks very like a sandwich at the Swindon station—a small stumpy piece -of beef between two huge pieces of bread, <i>i.e.</i> the Athenæum +of beef between two huge pieces of bread, <i>i.e.</i> the Athenæum and the Reform Clubs, which look as if they were urging their migratory neighbour to resume the peregrinations for which its members are remarkable. @@ -9891,7 +9851,7 @@ Charles-street and Regent-street,—a frigid design, somewhat relieved by sculpture on the entrance-front, of Britannia distributing laurels to her brave sons by land and sea. Thence the Club removed to a more spacious -house, in Waterloo-place, facing the Athenæum; the +house, in Waterloo-place, facing the Athenæum; the Club-house in Charles-street being entered on by the Junior United Service Club; but Smirke's cold design has been displaced by an edifice of much more ornate @@ -9975,7 +9935,7 @@ already. The eagerness to get into it is prodigious."</p> <p>Then, we have the <i>Quarterly Review</i>, with confirmation strong of the two Lords:—"The Alfred received its -<i>coup-de-grâce</i> from a well-known story, (rather an indication +<i>coup-de-grâce</i> from a well-known story, (rather an indication than a cause of its decline,) to the effect that Mr. Canning, whilst in the zenith of his fame, dropped in accidentally at a house dinner of twelve or fourteen, stayed @@ -9984,7 +9944,7 @@ out the evening, and made himself remarkably agreeable, without any one of the party suspecting who he was."</p> <p>The dignified clergy, who, with the higher class of -lawyers, have long ago emigrated to the Athenæum and +lawyers, have long ago emigrated to the Athenæum and University Clubs, formerly mustered in such great force at the Alfred, that Lord Alvanley, on being asked in the bow-window at White's, whether he was still a member, @@ -10050,9 +10010,9 @@ since been redecorated and embellished by Collman. <hr class="l15" /> -<h2>THE ATHENÆUM CLUB.</h2> +<h2>THE ATHENÆUM CLUB.</h2> -<p>The Athenæum presents a good illustration of the +<p>The Athenæum presents a good illustration of the present Club system, of which it was one of the earliest instances. By reference to the accounts of the Clubs existing about the commencement of the present century, @@ -10093,12 +10053,12 @@ Thomas Moore, and Charles Hatchett,—was held in the apartments of the Royal Society, at Somerset House; at this meeting Professor Faraday assisted as secretary, and it was agreed to institute a Club to be called "The -Society," subsequently altered to "The Athenæum." +Society," subsequently altered to "The Athenæum." "The Society" first met in the Clarence Club-house; but, in 1830, the present mansion, designed by Decimus Burton, was opened to the members.</p> -<p>The Athenæum Club-house is built upon a portion of +<p>The Athenæum Club-house is built upon a portion of the court-yard of Carlton House. The architecture is Grecian, with a frieze exactly copied from the Panathenaic procession in the frieze of the Parthenon,—the @@ -10144,7 +10104,7 @@ of Clubs the facilities of living were wonderfully increased, whilst the expense was greatly diminished. For a few pounds a year, advantages are to be enjoyed which no fortunes, except the most ample, can procure. The -only Club (he continues) I belong to is the Athenæum, +only Club (he continues) I belong to is the Athenæum, which consists of twelve hundred members, amongst whom are to be reckoned a large proportion of the most eminent persons in the land, in every line,—civil, military, @@ -10180,8 +10140,8 @@ They are favourable to temperance. It seems that when people can freely please themselves, and when they have an opportunity of living simply, excess is seldom committed. From an account I have of the expenses at the -Athenæum in the year 1832, it appears that 17,323 -dinners cost, on an average, 2<i>s.</i> 9¾<i>d.</i> each, and that the +Athenæum in the year 1832, it appears that 17,323 +dinners cost, on an average, 2<i>s.</i> 9¾<i>d.</i> each, and that the average quantity of wine for each person was a small fraction more than half-a-pint.</p> @@ -10197,22 +10157,22 @@ In 1834, we read: "The mixture of Whigs, Radicals, <i>savants</i>, foreigners, dandies, authors, soldiers, sailors, lawyers, artists, doctors, and Members of both Houses of Parliament, together with an exceedingly good average -supply of bishops, render the <i>mélange</i> very agreeable, +supply of bishops, render the <i>mélange</i> very agreeable, despite of some two or three bores, who 'continually do dine;' and who, not satisfied with getting a 6<i>s.</i> dinner for 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>, 'continually do complain.'"</p> <p>Mr. Rogers, the poet, was one of the earliest members -of the Athenæum, and innumerable are the good +of the Athenæum, and innumerable are the good things, though often barbed with bitterness, which are recorded of him.</p> <p>Some years ago, judges, bishops, and peers used to -congregate at the Athenæum; but a club of twelve hundred +congregate at the Athenæum; but a club of twelve hundred members cannot be select. "Warned by the necessity of keeping up their number and their funds, they foolishly set abroad a report that the finest thing -in the world was to belong to the Athenæum; and that +in the world was to belong to the Athenæum; and that an opportunity offered for hobnobbing with archbishops, and hearing Theodore Hook's jokes. Consequently all the little crawlers and parasites, and gentility-hunters, @@ -10223,13 +10183,13 @@ crept in under bishops' sleeves, and they crept in in peers' pockets, and they were blown in by the winds of chance. The consequence has been, that ninety-nine hundredths of this Club are people who rather seek to -obtain a sort of standing by belonging to the Athenæum, +obtain a sort of standing by belonging to the Athenæum, than to give it lustre by the talent of its members. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">246</a></span> Nine-tenths of the intellectual writers of the age would be certainly black-balled by the dunces. Notwithstanding all this, and partly on account of this, the -Athenæum is a capital Club: the library is certainly the +Athenæum is a capital Club: the library is certainly the best Club library in London, and is a great advantage to a man who writes."<a name="FNanchor_22" id="FNanchor_22" href="#Footnote_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a></p> @@ -10254,7 +10214,7 @@ a chop in the committee-room, and just one tumbler of brandy-and-water, or <i>two</i>, and we fear the catalogue would not always close there."</p> -<p>At the Athenæum, Hook was a great card; and in +<p>At the Athenæum, Hook was a great card; and in a note to the sketch of him in the <i>Quarterly Review</i>, it is stated that the number of dinners at this Club fell off by upwards of three hundred per annum after @@ -10302,11 +10262,11 @@ society was much affected by the multiplication of Clubs. He remarks that in those hours of the evening, which are peculiarly dedicated to society, he could scarcely count twenty members in the suite of rooms upstairs at the -Athenæum Club. If female society be neglected, he +Athenæum Club. If female society be neglected, he contended that it was not owing to the institution of Clubs, but more probably to the long sittings of the House of Commons, and to the want of easy access to -family circles. At the Athenæum he never heard it even +family circles. At the Athenæum he never heard it even hinted, that married men frequented it to the prejudice of their domestic habits, or that bachelors were kept from general society. Indeed, Mr. Walker maintains, @@ -10764,7 +10724,7 @@ John Kemble; Charles Kemble as Charles II. (under which picture he often sat in advanced life, when he in no degree resembled the audacious, stalwart king in the painting); Mrs. Charles Kemble, in male attire; Mrs. -Fitzwilliam; Charles Mathews, <i>père</i>; a fine, roystering +Fitzwilliam; Charles Mathews, <i>père</i>; a fine, roystering Woodward, reminding one of the rattling times of stage chivalry and 'victorious burgundy;' and in the morning-room was a delightful Kitty Clive, another Garrick, and, @@ -11005,7 +10965,7 @@ smoking-rooms, with the ordinary accommodations; besides the additional novelty of private chambers, or dormitories. The frontage towards Pall Mall is about 135 feet, or nearly equal to the frontage of the -Athenæum (76 feet) and the Travellers' (74 feet). The +Athenæum (76 feet) and the Travellers' (74 feet). The style of the Reform is pure Italian, the architect having taken some points from the celebrated Farnese Palace at Rome, designed by Michael Angelo Buonarroti, in 1545, @@ -11077,12 +11037,12 @@ the breakfast given by that Club on the occasion of the Queen's Coronation obtained him high commendation. His ingenuity gave a sort of celebrity to the great political banquets given at the Reform. In his O'Connell -dinner, the <i>soufflés à la Clontarf</i>, were considered by +dinner, the <i>soufflés à la Clontarf</i>, were considered by gastronomes to be a rich bit of satire. The banquet to Ibrahim Pacha, July 3, 1846, was another of Soyer's great -successes, when Merlans à l'Égyptienne, la Crême -d'Égypte and à l'Ibrahim Pacha, mingled with Le Gâteau -Britannique à l'Amiral (Napier). Another famous +successes, when Merlans à l'Égyptienne, la Crême +d'Égypte and à l'Ibrahim Pacha, mingled with Le Gâteau +Britannique à l'Amiral (Napier). Another famous banquet was that given to Sir C. Napier, March 3, 1854, as Commander of the Baltic Fleet; and the banquet given July 20, 1850, to Viscount Palmerston, who was @@ -11110,7 +11070,7 @@ from the last extremity of political degradation by his cook." A distinguished member of the diplomatic body was once overheard remarking to an Austrian nobleman, upon the Minister's shortcomings in some respects, -adding, "mais on dîne fort bien chez lui."</p> +adding, "mais on dîne fort bien chez lui."</p> <p>It is always interesting to read a foreigner's opinion of English society. The following observations, by the @@ -11182,7 +11142,7 @@ awhile before this octagonal apparatus, which occupies the centre of the place. Around you the water boils and the stew-pans bubble, and a little further on is a moveable furnace, before which pieces of meat are converted -into savoury <i>rôtis</i>; here are sauces and gravies, +into savoury <i>rôtis</i>; here are sauces and gravies, stews, broths, soups, etc. In the distance are Dutch ovens, marble mortars, lighted stoves, iced plates of metal for fish; and various compartments for vegetables, @@ -11229,7 +11189,7 @@ not the most costly Club-house, in the metropolis. It is a copy of Sansovino's Library of St. Mark, at Venice: the entablature of the Ionic, or upper order, is considerably more ponderous than that of the Doric below, -which is an unorthodox defect. The façade is highly +which is an unorthodox defect. The façade is highly enriched, and exhibits a novelty in the shafts of all the columns being of red Peterhead granite, highly polished, which, in contrast with the dead stone, is objectionable: @@ -11336,7 +11296,7 @@ president."<a name="FNanchor_28" id="FNanchor_28" href="#Footnote_28" class="fna <p>The Oxford and Cambridge Club-house, 71, Pall Mall, for members of the two Universities, was designed by Sir Robert Smirke, R.A., and his brother, Mr. Sydney -Smirke, 1835-8. The Pall Mall façade is 80 feet in +Smirke, 1835-8. The Pall Mall façade is 80 feet in width by 75 in height, and the rear lies over against the court of Marlborough House. The ornamental detail is very rich: as the entrance-portico, with Corinthian columns; @@ -11357,7 +11317,7 @@ Newton explaining his system; Bacon, his philosophy. Beneath the ground-floor is a basement of offices, and an entresol or mezzanine of chambers. The principal apartments are tastefully decorated; the drawing-room is -panelled with <i>papier mâché</i>; and the libraries are filled +panelled with <i>papier mâché</i>; and the libraries are filled with book-cases of beautifully-marked Russian birchwood. From the back library is a view of Marlborough House and its gardens. @@ -11511,14 +11471,14 @@ year, and immediately set about building the magnificent Club-house which bears his name. It rose like a creation of Aladdin's lamp; and the genii themselves could hardly have surpassed the beauty of the internal decorations, -or furnished a more accomplished <i>maître d'hôtel</i> +or furnished a more accomplished <i>maître d'hôtel</i> than Ude. To make the company as select as possible, the establishment was regularly organized as a Club, and the election of members vested in a committee. 'Crockford's' became the rage, and the votaries of fashion, whether they liked play or not, hastened to enrol themselves. The Duke of Wellington was an original member, -though (unlike Blücher, who repeatedly lost everything +though (unlike Blücher, who repeatedly lost everything he had at play) the great Captain was never known to play deep at any game but war or politics. Card-tables were regularly placed, and whist was played occasionally; @@ -11549,13 +11509,13 @@ balustrade throughout; the ground-floor has Venetian windows, and the upper story, large French windows. The entrance-hall had a screen of Roman-Ionic scagliola columns with gilt capitals, and a cupola of gilding and -stained glass. The library has Sienna columns and antæ +stained glass. The library has Sienna columns and antæ of the Ionic order, from the Temple of Minerva Polias; the staircase is panelled with scagliola, and enriched with Corinthian columns. The grand drawing-room is in the style of Louis Quatorze: azure ground, with elaborate cove; ceiling enrichments bronze gilt; door-way -paintings <i>à la Watteau</i>; and panelling, masks, terminals, +paintings <i>à la Watteau</i>; and panelling, masks, terminals, heavily gilt. Upon the opening of the Club-house, it was described in the exaggerated style, as "the New Pandemonium"; the drawing-rooms, or real Hell, consisting @@ -11587,9 +11547,9 @@ out? Well, he ordered a red mullet for his dinner. I made him a delicious little sauce with my own hands. The price of the mullet marked on the <i>carte</i> was 2<i>s.</i>; I asked 6<i>d.</i> for the sauce. He refuses to pay the 6<i>d.</i> -That <i>imbécille</i> apparently believes that the red mullets +That <i>imbécille</i> apparently believes that the red mullets come out of the sea with my sauce in their pockets!" -The <i>imbécille</i> might have retorted that they do come out +The <i>imbécille</i> might have retorted that they do come out of the sea with their appropriate sauce in their pockets; but this forms no excuse for damaging the consummate genius of a Ude.</p> @@ -11753,7 +11713,7 @@ Little's vagaries</i>!' He also rendered 'Ne <i>plus</i> ultra,' seventy years. The Anglo-Erichthonius, the Hon. Charles Finch, brother to the Earl of Aylesford, used to drive his own coach-and-four, disguised in a livery great-coat. -Soon after his <i>début</i>, however, the celebrated +Soon after his <i>début</i>, however, the celebrated "Tommy Onslow," Sir John Lacy, and others, mounted the box in their own characters. Sir John was esteemed a renowned judge of coach-horses and carriages, and a @@ -11769,7 +11729,7 @@ well as peculiar, spectacles in and about the metropolis.</p> <p>On the stage, the gentlemen drivers, of whom the members of the Four-in-Hand Club were the exclusive -<i>élite</i>, were illustrated rather than caricatured in <i>Goldfinch</i>, +<i>élite</i>, were illustrated rather than caricatured in <i>Goldfinch</i>, in Holcroft's comedy <i>The Road to Ruin</i>. Some of them who had not "drags" of their own, "tipped" a weekly allowance to stage coachmen, to allow them to "finger @@ -11827,7 +11787,7 @@ relations in the neighbourhood of Guildford.</p> existence of the Four-in-Hand Club (the palmy days of which belong to the times of George the Fourth), and it was not a <i>coach</i>, but a <i>phaeton</i>, that he drove. A correspondent -of the <i>Athenæum</i> writes: "I knew him personally, +of the <i>Athenæum</i> writes: "I knew him personally, in my own boyhood, in Surrey, in the first years of the present century; and I remember then hearing the epigram now referred to, not as new, but as well known, @@ -11969,9 +11929,9 @@ quadrille, and backgammon, but little is known of him more than he was born in 1672, and died in Cavendish-square on 29th August, 1769, at the advanced age of ninety-seven. He was a barrister by profession, and Registrar -of the Prerogative in Ireland, a post worth £600 a +of the Prerogative in Ireland, a post worth £600 a year. His treatise on Whist, for which he received from -the publisher the sum of £1000, ran through five editions +the publisher the sum of £1000, ran through five editions in one year, besides being extensively pirated.</p> <div class="poem"> @@ -12200,7 +12160,7 @@ food as old Izaak Walton loved. We have a rule that he who catches the biggest fish of the day shall be our president for the evening. In the course of one day, a member, not a scientific man, but a high political man, -caught a trout that weighed 3½ lb.; but earlier in the +caught a trout that weighed 3½ lb.; but earlier in the day he had pulled out a barbel of half a pound weight. So while we were on the way to our inn, what did this political gentleman do but, with the butt-end of his rod, @@ -12302,7 +12262,7 @@ hotel banquet. Not one of the celebrants on this occasion had passed through his novitiate as a Red Lion cub: he was not asked whether he could roar or sing a song, or had ever said a good thing, one of which qualifications -was a <i>sine quâ non</i> in the old Club. There +was a <i>sine quâ non</i> in the old Club. There were, however, some good songs: Professor Rankine sang "The Mathematician in Love," a song of his own. Then, there are some choice spirits among these philosophers. @@ -12323,14 +12283,14 @@ about twelve years since, at No. 106, Piccadilly, facing the Green Park. The handsome stone-fronted mansion occupies the site of the old Greyhound inn, and was bought by the Earl of Coventry of Sir Hugh Hunlock, -in 1764, for £10,000, subject to the ground-rent of -£75 per annum. The Club enjoyed but a brief existence: +in 1764, for £10,000, subject to the ground-rent of +£75 per annum. The Club enjoyed but a brief existence: it was closed in March, 1854.</p> <p>The Erectheum Club, St. James's-square, corner of York-street, was established by Sir John Dean Paul, Bart., and became celebrated for its good dinners. The -Club-house was formerly the town depôt of Wedgwood's +Club-house was formerly the town depôt of Wedgwood's famous "ware;" and occupies the site of the mansion built for the Earl of Romney, the handsome Sydney of De Grammont's Memoirs.</p> @@ -12387,7 +12347,7 @@ fellowship and antiquarian pursuits. "Joking minutes are kept, in which would be found many known names, either as visitors or associates,—Theodore Hook, Sir Henry Ellis, Britton, Dickens, Thackeray, John Bruce, -Jerdan, Planché, Bell, Maclise, etc." The Club and its +Jerdan, Planché, Bell, Maclise, etc." The Club and its visitors may have caught inspiration here; for in their sallies <i>movere jocum</i>, they have imitated the wits at Strawberry Hill, and found Arms for the Club, with a @@ -12452,7 +12412,7 @@ Mr. Jerrold became attached. He was of a clubbable nature, and delighted in wit-combats and brilliant repartees, the flash of which was perfectly electric.</p> -<p>In this very agreeable <i>précis</i>, we find that towards the +<p>In this very agreeable <i>précis</i>, we find that towards the end of the year 1824, some young men at a humble tavern, the Wrekin, in the genial neighbourhood of Covent Garden, with Shakspeare as their common idol; @@ -12734,13 +12694,13 @@ being inconceivably rude, and in her manner often ill-bred. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_317" id="Page_317">317</a></span> Lady Sefton was kind and amiable; Madame de Lieven haughty and exclusive; Princess Esterhazy was a -<i>bon enfant</i>; Lady Castlereagh and Miss Burrell, <i>de très +<i>bon enfant</i>; Lady Castlereagh and Miss Burrell, <i>de très grandes dames</i>.</p> <p>"Many diplomatic arts, much finesse, and a host of intrigues, were set in motion to get an invitation to Almack's. Very often persons, whose rank and fortunes -entitled them to the <i>entrée</i> anywhere, were excluded by +entitled them to the <i>entrée</i> anywhere, were excluded by the cliqueism of the lady patronesses; for the female government of Almack's was a pure despotism, and subject to all the caprices of despotic rule: it is needless to @@ -12804,7 +12764,7 @@ Clubs: [this was written in 1860.]</p> <li>Farmers' Club.</li> <li>Geographical Club.</li> <li>Geological Club.</li> -<li>Linnæan Club.</li> +<li>Linnæan Club.</li> <li>Literary Society.</li> <li>Navy Club.</li> <li>Philosophical Club.</li> @@ -12985,10 +12945,10 @@ broken heart.</p> extract from the Journals of the House of Lords, although there is no reference to the subject in the published "Parliamentary Debates," was found not long -since by the Editor of the <i>Athenæum</i> amongst a mass of +since by the Editor of the <i>Athenæum</i> amongst a mass of contemporary MSS.:—</p> -<p>"Die Lunæ, 29° Aprilis, 1745.—Gaming.—A Bill +<p>"Die Lunæ, 29° Aprilis, 1745.—Gaming.—A Bill for preventing the excessive and deceitful use of it having been brought from the Commons, and proceeded on so far as to be agreed to in a Committee of the whole @@ -13046,7 +13006,7 @@ game or games prohibited by any law now in force."</p> <p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_2" id="Footnote_2" href="#FNanchor_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> <i>Notes and Queries</i>, 3rd S. i. p. 295, in which is noted:—"A good illustration of the connexion between the ideas of <i>division</i> and <i>union</i> is afforded by the two equivalent words <i>partner</i> -and <i>associé</i>, the former pointing especially to the <i>division</i> of +and <i>associé</i>, the former pointing especially to the <i>division</i> of profits, the latter to the community of interests."</p> <p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_3" id="Footnote_3" href="#FNanchor_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> <i>Notes and Queries</i>, No. 234, p. 383. Communicated by @@ -13129,9 +13089,9 @@ p. 571.)</p> <p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_29" id="Footnote_29" href="#FNanchor_29"><span class="label">[29]</span></a> Edinburgh Review.</p> -<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_30" id="Footnote_30" href="#FNanchor_30"><span class="label">[30]</span></a> Athenæum review of Captain Gronow's Anecdotes.</p> +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_30" id="Footnote_30" href="#FNanchor_30"><span class="label">[30]</span></a> Athenæum review of Captain Gronow's Anecdotes.</p> -<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_31" id="Footnote_31" href="#FNanchor_31"><span class="label">[31]</span></a> Athenæum, No. 1739.</p> +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_31" id="Footnote_31" href="#FNanchor_31"><span class="label">[31]</span></a> Athenæum, No. 1739.</p> <p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_32" id="Footnote_32" href="#FNanchor_32"><span class="label">[32]</span></a> Written, it must be recollected, some thirty years since. Reprinted in Murray's 'Reading for the Rail.'</p> @@ -13152,381 +13112,6 @@ Treatise on the Game, by J. C. Harrison, 59, Pall Mall.</p> <p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_36" id="Footnote_36" href="#FNanchor_36"><span class="label">[36]</span></a> Abridged from the <i>Daily News</i>.</p> </div> - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Club Life of London, Vol. I (of 2), by John Timbs - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CLUB LIFE OF LONDON, VOL. 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