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The Savage Club: a medley of history, anecdote, and reminiscence  By Aaron Watson, Mark Twain

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Robert B rough's death was followed in London by a notable night at Drury Lane. There has seldom been a more remarkable
programme. The papers.
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Liverpool - Page 49
at their own expense, to play in Manchester and Liverpool for the benefit of the fund for the relief of the unemployed cotton
operatives. ...
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Manchester - Page 119

At Manchester he said he had heard of complaints that there was too much still life in the pictures of his panorama. ...
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Chunar - Page 205

The fact of my mother being at Chunar at the time may, of course, have had some influence on my selection of a birthplace. ...

Southampton - Page 124

Artemus Ward died at Southampton, during one of his tours, on February 6, 1867. It is pitiable to relate that there was an
unseemly difference over ...
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 Waterford, Maine - Page 126
The native village in question was Waterford, Maine, USA Mark Twain did not make himself so much at home in the Club as
the earlier American humourist ...

Windsor - Page 199

either by eagerness or apprehension, than if he had been requested to describe the Queen's arrival at Windsor ; yet from the
few confidential words ...
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Paris - Page 1
Richard Whiteing, an old member of the Savage, says of Paris : " At the beginning of things it was the restaurants or nothing if
you wished to ...
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Bristol - Page 175

Alexander Pope aided him ; but his death took place in the debtors' prison at Bristol, and a gaoler performed the last kind
offices. ...

New York - Page 135

in the Lotus Club in New York carried with it the privileges of membership in the Savage, and the Savages enjoyed Lotus
privileges when in New York. ...
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Page 7 - A pleasant land, not fenced with drab stucco, like Tyburnia or Belgravia ; not guarded by a huge standing army of
footmen ; not echoing with noble chariots ; not replete with polite chintz drawing-rooms and neat teatables ; a land over which
hangs an endless fog, occasioned by much tobacco ; a land of chambers, billiardrooms, supper-rooms, oysters ; a land of song ;
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studios ; a land where men call each other by their Christian names ; where most are poor, where almost all are young, and
where if a few oldsters do enter, it is because they have preserved more tenderly and carefully than other folks their youthful
spirits, and the delightful capacity to be idle. I have lost my way to Bohemia now, but it is certain that Prague is the most... 
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our devious night. None know, sweet love, nor care a thought For our heart's vague desire; Nor if our longing come to nought, Or
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Page 17 - Club was founded ten years ago, to supply the want which Dr. Samuel Johnson and his friends experienced when they
founded the Literary Club. A little band of authors, journalists, and artists felt the need of a place of reunion, where, in their hours
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Page 18 - Hereupon a member called out, in a pure spirit of wantonness, ' The Savage ! ' That keen sense of humour was again
tickled. ' The very thing ! ' he exclaimed, ' no one can say there is anything pretentious in assuming that name. If we accept
Richard Savage as our godfather, it shows that there is no pride about us ; if we mean that we are scevi, why then it will be a
pleasant surprise for those who may join us to find the wigwam a lucus a non lucendo.' And so, in a frolicsome humour, our little
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old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more.
Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years... 
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Contents
CHAPTER PAOC I THE KINGDOM OF BOHEMIA 1 The Hall of the Club 24
HOW THE CLUB CAME INTO BEING 16 Julian Portch in The Forty Thieves 40
THE CLUB IN ITS EARLY DAYS 26 A Prehistoric Savage Club Dinner 4 49
 THE SAVAGE CLUB ON THE STAGE 39 TerrottMcnu Page 73
MIGRATORY 53 Paul Grays Last Drawing 80
FOREIGN VISITORSAND SOME CLUB TRAGEDIES 63 Dnanug fry David Law ami IV H Pike 88
v11 THE SAVAGE CLUB PAPERS 74 Drawing by y R Reid 96 96
SOME ORIGINAL MEMBERS 85 The Medicine Man 113
THE AUTHOR OF CASTE 99 Menu for the Marconi Dinner 124
THE BROUGHS AND JEFF PROWSE 109 An Address to Queen Victoria 138 128
ARTEMUS WARD AND MARK TWAIN 119 ilark Twain From a photo 131 131
MARK TWAINS OWN ACCOUNT 131 The Gladstone Night 143
AN ABSURD INCIDENT 136 Henry Irving as Vanderdecken 152
A GLADSTONE NIGHT 143 A Dori Tailpiece page 156
LANCASTER HOUSE 157 The Prince of Wales Edward VII in the Chair Facing pa 167
CHAPTER PAGE XVI THE KING AS A SAVAGE 167 Henry S Leigh 184 184
AT THE SAVOY 181 The Club BookPlate page 198
FAMOUS WAR CORRESPONDENTS 197 Lord Charles 211
SAVAGES IN THE CITY 212 Sir William Treloar 322 227
THE CITY AND THE SAVAGE CLUB 222 A Savage Welcome page 237
THE SAVAGE CLUB BALL AND OTHER MATTERS 229 A Menu Card by Tom Browne 248
MISCELLANEA 238 Welcome to Henry Irving 262
SPECIMEN NIGHTS 251 251 The Officers of the Discovery 270
AT ADELPHI TERRACE 267 The Dukt of Connaught 278
THE SAVAGE CLUB TODAY 280 The Diamond Jubilee Menu 286
IN MEMORIAM 294 K y Odell Page 293
AGAIN IN MEMORIAM 306 Dinner Ticket By L Raven Hill 300 300
EPILOGUE 314 Lord Justice Moulton 308
INDEX 319 Tom Browne By Himself 316
W B Tegelmeier 16

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Title The Savage Club: a medley of history, anecdote, and reminiscence

Authors Aaron Watson, Mark Twain
Publisher T.F. Unwin, 1907
Original from the New York Public Library
Digitized 19 Mar 2007
Length 327 pages

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