MODERN CLUBS.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

MODERN CLUBS.

The very essence of strict club hie, as we understand it t6-day, is contained in the admonition which Plutarch says was delivered at every meeting. ' ' It was customary for the eldest man in the company to tell each of them, as they came in, ' Look ye, sir, not a word said in company must go out of this door,' and withal he pointed to it." Whatever people invented the cognomen club, it is certain that the thing it means is as old as the hills. No modern nation, however, has adopted the institution with such thoroughness as England, nor does any other city in the world possess so interesting andi characteristic a record of club life as that which is mixed up with the history of London. Our unwritten law respocting tho, friendly confidence, of the club-house, makes it difficult to attempt anything like detailed personal sketches of interiors. One is bound to observe the golden rule, until the talk of to-day and the men and the times have become fit subjects for the historian. Happily much that is entertaining in connection with London clubs belongs to the past, and if the pen is sometimes constrained, the pencil is allowed a special freedom; and so, between the two, London clubs may well prove an attractive subject for an illustrated chat. — From the Art Journal.