CHAPTER VIII

MY CLUBS

The Arts Club.--Mrs. Frith's funeral.--The sympathetic waiter.--Swinburne.--Whistler.--Edmund Yates.--The Orleans Club.--Sir George Wombwell.--"Hughie" Drummond.--"Fatty" Coleman.--Lady Meux.--The Prize Fighter and her nephew.--The Curate.--The Theobald's Tiger.--Whistler and his pictures.-- Charles Brookfield.--Mrs. Brookfield.--The Lotus Club.--Kate Vaughan.--Nellie Farren.--The Lyric Club.--The Gallery Club. --Some Members.--The Jockey Club Stand.--My plunge on the turf.--The Beefsteak Club.--Toole and Irving.--The Fielding Club.--Archie Wortley.--Charles Keene.--The Amateur Pantomime. --Some of the caste.--Corney Grain.--A night on Ebury Bridge. --The Punch Bowl Club.--Oliver Wendell Holmes.--Lord Houghton and the herring. 161