CREMORNE TAVERN AND GARDENS 257 THE MULBERRY GARDEN 258 PIMLICO TAVERNS 259 LAMBETH,--VAUXHALL TAVERNS AND GARDENS, ETC. 260 FREEMASONS' LODGES 263 WHITEBAIT TAVERNS 267 THE LONDON TAVERN 274 THE CLARENDON HOTEL 279 FREEMASONS' TAVERN, GREAT QUEEN-STREET 280 THE ALBION, ALDERSGATE-STREET 283 ST. JAMES'S HALL 284 THEATRICAL TAVERNS 285 APPENDIX. BEEFSTEAK SOCIETY 286 WHITE'S CLUB 287 THE ROYAL ACADEMY CLUB 289 DESTRUCTION OF TAVERNS BY FIRE 290 THE TZAR OF MUSCOVY'S HEAD, TOWER-STREET 291 ROSE TAVERN, TOWER-STREET 292 THE NAG'S HEAD TAVERN, CHEAPSIDE 293 THE HUMMUMS, COVENT GARDEN 295 ORIGIN OF TAVERN SIGNS 296 INDEX TO THE FIRST VOLUME 305 INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME 313 [Illustration: "The Lion's Head," at Button's Coffee-House.] CLUB LIFE OF LONDON. Coffee-houses. EARLY COFFEE-HOUSES. Coffee is thus mentioned by Bacon, in his _Sylva Sylvarum_:--"They have in _Turkey_ a _drink_ called _Coffee_, made of a _Berry_ of the same name, as Black as _Soot_, and of a _Strong Sent_, but not _Aromatical_; which they take, beaten into Powder, in _Water_, as Hot as they can _Drink_ it; and they take it, and sit at it in their _Coffee Houses_, which are like our _Taverns_. The _Drink_ comforteth the _Brain_, and _Heart_, and helpeth _Digestion_." And in Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_, part i., sec. 2, occurs, "Turks in their coffee-houses, which much resemble our taverns." The date is 1621, several years before coffee-houses were introduced into England. In 1650, Wood tells us, was opened at Oxford, the first coffee-house, by Jacobs, a Jew, "at the Angel, in the parish of St. Peter in the East; and there it was, by some who delighted in novelty, drank." There was once an odd notion prevalent that coffee was unwholesome, and would bring its drinkers to an untimely end. Yet, Voltaire, Fontenelle, and Fourcroy, who were great coffee-drinkers, lived to a good old age. Laugh at Madame de Sévigné, who foretold that coffee and Racine would be forgotten together!