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Society & club

Lantern and Compass Club

Also called the Lantern and Compass

Exclusive, and given to dressing up the fact as hospitality, the club keeps a candidate waiting long for admission, and teaches him, while he waits, to take pleasure in it.

Named with it

  • James Thornycroft

At the table

Among the serious clubs where the right conversation happens before it becomes public.

Kind
Society & club
Region
London
Founded
c. 4450 A.C. · Restored crown
Standing
Present day
Named in
Book II
Spoken of
3 times in the volumes
Where the volumes speak of it