This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...on the Art of Making Wine." London, 1821. CHAPTER VII. The second quarter of the last century was remarkable for the rapid decadence of hotels in London, and the equally rapid extension of the club-house system. The great success of the clubs established after the peace of 1815 acted as an incentive to many ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...on the Art of Making Wine." London, 1821. CHAPTER VII. The second quarter of the last century was remarkable for the rapid decadence of hotels in London, and the equally rapid extension of the club-house system. The great success of the clubs established after the peace of 1815 acted as an incentive to many others. The Athenaeum was founded in 1824 for judges, barristers, physicians, authors, philosophers and artists; the University, in Suffolk Street, was instituted in the same year for dignitaries of the Church and University professors; the Union Club, at the S.W. angle of Trafalgar Square, was also erected in 1824. A few years later the Garrick arose, in 1831, at 35 King Street: --" For the purpose of bringing together patrons of the drama and its professors; and also for offering literary men a rendezvous." The great political clubs followed: the Reform, which was established by Liberal Members of both Houses of Parliament to assist in carrying the Reform Bill (1830-32). The Conservative, in St. James's Street, and the Carlton, founded by the Duke of Wellington in 1831, for politicians of opposite stamp. - The Oxford and Cambridge, 7, Pall Mall, was established in 1835 by members of both Universities, and several minor clubs date also from this period. These clubs may be said to have brought economy and temperance into fashion. An excellent dinner at the club costing less than a mediocre dinner at the restaurant. Mr. Walker wrote in his " Original " in 1833: --" Clubs, as far as my observation goes, are favourable to economy of time. There is a fixed place to go to; everything is served with comparative expedition, and it is not customary or general to remain long at table. They are favourable to temperance. It seems that when people can...
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