PUBLISHERS' NOTICE HE result of the labors of the publishers of this work has been a surprise. At the outset we realized that there was need of such a work. At the clubs, and in social circles, we had repeatedly heard the lack of such a publication regretted. But not in our most sanguine moments did we anticipate the great interest which the subject has created among club men, society people, men of affairs, and in general in those circles commonly referred to as "our best people." In the beginning, we proposed to carry on the work, as to subscriptions, entirely from the New York office. But the steadily increasing number of subscribers and inquirers at all the principal social centres of the Union rendered it advisable to commission Agents and Correspondents at those centres to canvass for subscriptions for the volume. Many of these Correspondents are themselves members of the most exclusive organizations in their respective cities; and in every case they express the opinion we have heard repeatedly expressed in New York, namely, that SELECT ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES will be not only the most widely read, but also the most frequently referred to publication in club reading-rooms and among society people. The organizations treated of in the work embrace Social, Political, Sporting, Athletic, Amateur Dramatic, Literary, Musical, Historical and Patriotic Societies, Bicycle, Kennel and Yacht Clubs. To the club officials, numbering many hundreds, who have assisted us in our work, and to the individual members who have contributed articles for the publication, we tender our sincere thanks. THE PUBLISHERS. |