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of being introduced into some of the most exclusive London clubs, a thing that does not happen to every wayfarer, and I will try to describe what it is like thern! There is one, the name of which I have forgotten in fact I do not even know the street it is fa. But they led me through a medieval passage, then to the left and to the right, and again in yet another direction, till we reached a house with completely blank windows, and then inside, where it resembled wi shed, and from there into a cellar, and there was the club; there were boxers and authors and pretty girls, oak tables and In clay floor; a place like the, ryl of one's hand, a fantastic and terrible den; I thought that they would kill me there. But they gave me food on earthenware plates, and were nice and kind; then I was led off by a South African ruuping and jumping champion, and i still re- member pretty girl who learnt Czech

from me.

The second club is famous, ancient and tremendously venerable; it, used to be frequented by Herbert Spencer and Dickens and many others, all of whom the head waiter, majordomo, or porter. for whoever he was) there mentioned to me; perhaps he had read all of them. for he seemed to be very refined and dignified, as keepers of antiquities are wout to be. He led me through the whole of this historical place; showed me the library, the reading-room, the old engrav ings, the heated, dressing-rooms, the bath- rooms, the historical armchairs, the rooms where gentlemen smoke, other rooms where they write and smoke, and others where they smoke and read; on all sides was wafted the smell of tradis tion and old leather chairs.

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I'm sure that if we had such old lea ther chairs we should also have a tradi- tion; just imagine the historical con- tinuity which would come into existence if F. Goetz were to occupy that chair in which Professor Dowden (it might have beun Zakrejs) used to sit, Számek that other of Silas Hocking's (or was it Smilovsky's), and Professor Radi that one in which Professor Skeat sat und, let us say, the late lamented Hattala might have done. Our tradition is not based upon such old, and especially, auch comfortable armchairs, and as it bas no- where to sit, it hangs in the air. 1 thought of that when I was taking my ease in one of those historical armchairs; I had a somewhat historical feeling, but was otherwise quite cosy, and took a peep at the bistorical personalities! around me, some hanging on the walls, others sitting in the club chaira and reading Punch or Who's Who. Nobody, spoke, and this produced a truly digni- bed effect; we in our country ought to have such places where silence, is pre- served... An old gentleman shuffled along on two sticka ncross the room, and no- body maliciously told him that he was looking frat-rate. Another buried him- self in a newspaper (I could not see his face) without feeling irresistibly impell- ed to talk to somebody else about politics A Continental achieves import- ance by talking; an Englishman by bold- ing his tongue. It seemed to me that ut who were there were members of the Royal Academy, or the illustrious dead, or ex-Ministers, for pone of them spoke; nobody looked at me when I went in, and nobody when 1 came out. I wanted to be as they were, but I did not know what to do with my eyes; when I do not speak I look about me, and when I do not look about me 1 think of incongruous or comic things, and so what happened was that I burst out laughing. Nobody looked at me; it was overwhelming. I realized that they were performing a sort of ritual; the smoking of pipes, the perusal of Who's Who, and silence. This silence te not the silence of a man in solitude, nor the silence of a Pythagorean philoso pher, nor silence in the presence of God, bor the silence of death, nor a mute brooding; it is a special silence, a society silence, a refined silence, a silence of a gentleman amobg gentlemen.

1. went into other clubs as well; there are many hundreds of them, various in breed and purpose, but the best ones are ail in Piccadilly or thereabouts, and they have old leuther armchairs, the ritual of silence, flawless' waiters, and the ban on women; as you see, these are great advnotages. Besides this, they are built in the classical style, and of stone, which

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the interior contains a kitchen, huge rooms, stillness, tradition, hot and cold water, a number of portraits and billiard tables, and many other noteworthy things. There are also political clubs, and women's clubs, and night clubs, but

them I did not visit.

This would be suitable place to meditate about social life, monasticism, good cooking, old portraits, the English character, and several other cognato questions; but ne I am a wayfaring man I must move on to more and more fresh discoveries.

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