AIN CLUBS AND CLUB-WITS UNDER ANNE.

The Origin of Clubs.--The Establishment of Coffee-houses.--The
October Club.--The Beef-steak Club.--Of certain other
Clubs.--The Kit-kat Club.--The Romance of the Bowl.--The Toasts
of the Kit-kat.--The Members of the Kit-kat.--A good Wit, and a
bad Architect.--'Well-natured Garth.'--The Poets of the
Kit-kat.--Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax.--Chancellor
Somers.--Charles Sackville, Lord Dorset.--Less celebrated
Wits. p. 91

WILLIAM CONGREVE.

When and where was he born?--The Middle Temple.--Congreve finds his
Vocation.--Verses to Queen Mary.--The Tennis-court
Theatre.--Congreve abandons the Drama.--Jeremy Collier.--The
Immorality of the Stage.--Very improper Things.--Congreve's
Writings.--Jeremy's 'Short Views.'--Rival Theatres.--Dryden's
Funeral.--A Tub-Preacher.--Horoscopic Predictions.--Dryden's
Solicitude for his Son.--Congreve's Ambition.--Anecdote of
Voltaire and Congreve.--The Profession of Maecenas.--Congreve's
Private Life.--'Malbrook's' Daughter.--Congreve's Death and
Burial. p. 106

BEAU NASH.

The King of Bath.--Nash at Oxford.--'My Boy Dick.'--Offers of
Knighthood.--Doing Penance at York.--Days of Folly.--A very
Romantic Story.--Sickness and Civilization.--Nash descends upon
Bath.--Nash's Chef-d'oeuvre.--The Ball.--Improvements in the
Pump-room, &c.--A Public Benefactor.--Life at Bath in Nash's
time.--A Compact with the Duke of Beaufort.--Gaming at
Bath.--Anecdotes of Nash.--'Miss Sylvia.'--A Generous
Act.--Nash's Sun setting.--A Panegyric.--Nash's Funeral.--His
Characteristics. p. 127

PHILIP, DUKE OF WHARTON.

Wharton's Ancestors.--His Early Years.--Marriage at
Sixteen.--Wharton takes leave of his Tutor.--The Young Marquis
and the Old Pretender.--Frolics at Paris.--Zeal for the Orange
Cause.--A Jacobite Hero.--The Trial of Atterbury.--Wharton's
Defence of the Bishop.--Hypocritical Signs of Penitence.--Sir
Robert Walpole duped.--Very Trying.--The Duke of Wharton's
'Whens.'--Military Glory at Gibraltar.--'Uncle
Horace.'--Wharton to 'Uncle Horace.'--The Duke's
Impudence.--High Treason.--Wharton's Ready Wit