Leaving mushroom clubs, I turn my attention to the Bohemian communities with which I fancy the Eccentrics would be proud to claim kinsmanship. I hope I am divulging no confidences when I hint that the Eccentrics themselves, although scarcely ten years old, can look back to a history which commenced with the initial year of the nineteenth century. In there was an Eccentric Club, which flourished until . All sorts of great people belonged to it -judges, peers, and wits. I fancy (and now I speak under correction) that Lord Denman was a member. I am under the impression that not only Sheridan but Sheridan Knowles were on the list. By the way the latter and scorned the plays he had written with as much contempt as their modern audiences. And the fact that the Eccentric is a revival reminds me that there was another Beef Steak before the establishment of that charming institution which once had its quarters over at Toole's Theatre in King William Street. My friend, Sir Henry Irving, has, I fancy, the original