Аннотация:bership of the Athenaeum Club in 1873 under the provisions of the club's Rule II.This rather obscure reference, revealed to the reader early on in Stephen Collini's Public Moralists, serves in many ways as a shorthand description of the argument which the author proceeds to build throughout the remainder of the work.The Athenaeum Club was generally considered to represent the peak of London's clubland, especially for the subjects of Collini's interest--the public intellectual.
