senses, the more refined appetites are considered.  In some clubs, the “Travellers” for instance, a library is provided; and at most of them, even the most unintellectual, a library of reference is supplied.  Here all the periodicals of the day are laid upon the tables—­both those of Great Britain and of the continent, together with the newspapers, metropolitan and provincial, and in some instances the political journals of Paris.  This part of the house may be considered the general resort of the gossippers and quidnuncs; and here, or in other more commodious places, materials for writing, paper, pens, lights, &c. are found.  Drawing-rooms, one or more, are next to be mentioned—­here the members take their tea or their ease; and where cards are played, this is the scene of operation.  A billiard-room is an agreeable addition to the accommodation of the society’s house, and several of the inferior apartments are always devoted to serve as dressing-rooms.  It is clear, that a bachelor wants nothing beyond this but a bed; if he chooses to live in this sort of public privacy he may; and should he be only a sojourner in town, the convenience of a resort of this kind wherein he may make his appointments, receive and write his letters, see society, take his dinner, spend his evening, if not otherwise engaged, over the books, the newspapers, or a rubber of whist, and do all but sleep—­a bed in the neighbourhood may supply the article of repose.—­Thus all physical wants, and many social ones, are abundantly, and even luxuriously supplied.—­London Magazine.

[While upon “clubs,” we may as well advert to the prospectus of “The Literary Club,” which has reached us since our last.  It professes to be “associated for the assistance of men of letters, the development of talent, and the furtherance of the interests of literature.”  It not only aims at charitable provision for the weaknesses and infirmities of nature, but anticipates “harmony and friendship” among literary men, and “as little as possible on any system of exclusion.”  This is as it should be; but we fear the workings and conflicts of passion and interest are still too strong to admit of such harmony among the sons of genius.  Authorship is becoming, if not already become, too much of a trade or craft to admit of such a pacificatory scheme:  but the object of the association is one of the highest importance to literature, and we heartily wish it success.—­ED. MIRROR.]

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