The Club Directory. By Lieutenant-Colonel James Ivey. (Harrison.) —We doubt
whether the materials exist for a really good history of Clubs. If each of them had had a Greville of its own, what a volume might have been compiled oat of their reminiscences ! Lieutenant- Colonel Ivey modestly calls his book a " directory ;" but be has attempted to make it something more. He has drawn from the gossipy collections of Mr. Timbs and from other sources, and has got together a few, though but a very few, as compared with the untold number that must be somewhere, if we could only get at them, of the reminiscences of their inner life. Practical details of the amount of entrance and subscription, &c., number of members and payments are added. A useful feature of the book is the notice of foreign clubs, English clubs in the colonies and elsewhere, &c.
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