Excerpt from The English Illustrated Magazine, Vol. 31: April to September, 1904 It were vain for any man to hope to possess any inti mate knowledge or acquaint anceship with each of the hundred and more social institutions which stud so plentifully the purlieus of Piccadilly, Pall Mall, and St. James's Street, but a certain familiarity with the leading ones may easily bring about interesting conclusions. In an age so propitious for special studies, especially of a human and social kind, it were strange if clubs, and in particular clubs so cele brated as those of London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.