Mr.Fairfield apparently did not regard the club with entire favour, for in his book of 1873 he speaks of the club-house as being "a leading resort for America-examining Englishmen, and the headquarters of an English coterie of considerable social importance." "_O tempora! O mores_!" he exclaims.

There were palmy days in the past, when the receptions were social reunions of _eclat_.

But "they have made an end of all that, having settled into a body as quiet as Mr.Mantilini expected to be after taking a bath in the Thames." But, granting Mr.
Fairfield's claim that the literary quality of the Traveller's had deteriorated, there still remained the list of Honorary Members carrying a certain prestige.

Professor Louis Agassiz headed the list; and others were Paul Du Chaillu, the African explorer whose adventures were for a long time regarded as clever romance; the Hon.

Anson Burlingame, who had been an envoy from the Chinese Emperor; Sir Samuel Baker, of London; Rev.J.C.Fletcher, Professor Raphael Pumpelly, the Right Rev.Bishop Southgate, the Hon.