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THIS book will not only be welcomed by members of the Savile Club generally, but will also be a source of interest and pleasure to all such “strangers” as may come to read the anonymous author's “round unvarnished tale” of the birth and growth of the club, which has well striven to retain the original characters impressed upon it by the principles laid down by its founders. Thefounders' desire was, in brief,to establish a club consisting of a “mixture of men of different professions and opinions” by “a careful process of election.” The eminently readable and racy story of the Savile's progress that occupies seventy pages of this history, in conjunction with the interesting chronological list of members and committees given in the rest of the work, supplies good evidence that these principles have not been forgotten.
The Savile Club, 1868–1923.
Pp. vii + 206. (Privately printed for the Committee of the Club, 1923.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 112, 824 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112824a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112824a0