120 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



John Procter. These, and such, were the class 

 of men who formed the society which had so 

 great an attraction for Tegetmeier, and who in 

 their turn admired and respected him, and who, 

 at the anniversary dinner referred to, hung on 

 his lips while he spoke of the origin of the 

 club, and cheered him to the echo at the end 

 of his speech. 



Many references to Tegetmeier are made in 

 Aaron Watson's book, The Savage Club : a 

 Medley of History, Anecdote, and Reminiscence, 

 published in 1907, the year of the Club's Jubilee, 

 and to this carefully compiled, richly illustrated, 

 and altogether delightful book,* I would com- 

 mend all interested in this now famous club to 

 turn, for it is an interesting and, so far as I can 

 judge, an accurate account of the life-history of 

 the club. The only error I have found occurs 

 on page 32, where he writes that Tegetmeier 

 " became sole honorary secretary when Halliday 

 died, in 1859." This is, however, an obvious 

 slip, for on page 97 the real date of his decease 

 is given, viz. April 10th, 1877. We " Savages," 

 truly, are very human, and though we worship 

 Truth, we are as liable to error as are the 

 civilised scribes ! 



Passing by such stories as that told in the 

 New York Herald, to the effect that the first 

 club dinners consisted of " bread and cheese 2d., 



* Published by T. Fisher Unwin at £1 la. net. 



