ray, sir, ha'nt I seen your face at Will's Coffee
House?" "Yes sir, and at White's, too," answers the highwayman.

[Illustration: IN THE CLUB AT WHITE'S COFFEE HOUSE, 1733

From a painting in the series, "The Rake's Progress," by William
Hogarth]

After the fire, the club and chocolate house were removed to Gaunt's
coffee house. The removal was thus announced in the _Daily Post_ of May
3:

This is to acquaint all noblemen and gentlemen that Mr. Arthur
having had the misfortune to be burnt out of White's Chocolate
House is removed to Gaunt's Coffee House, next the St. James Coffee
House in St. James Street, where he humbly begs they will favour
him with their company as usual.

Alessandro Longhi (1733-1813) the Italian painter and engraver, called
the Venetian Hogarth, in one of his pictures presenting life and manners
in Venice during the years of her decadence, shows Goldoni, the
dramatist, as a visitor in a cafe of the period, with a female mendicant
soliciting alms.

In the Louvre at Paris hangs the "Petit Dejeuner" by Francois Boucher
(1703-1770), famous court painter of Louis XV. It shows a French
breakfast-room of the period of 1744, and is interesting because it
illustrates the introduction of coffee into the home; it shows also the
coffee service of the time.

In Van Loo's portrait of Madame de Pompadour, second mistress and
political adviser of Louis XV of France, the coffee service of a later
period of the eighteenth century appears. The Nubian servant is shown
offering the marquise a demi-tasse which has just been poured from the
covered oriental pot which succeeded the original Arabian-Turkish
boiler, and was much in vogue at the time.

Coffee and Madame du Barry (or would it be more polite to say Madame du
Barry and coffee?) inspired the celebrated painting of Madame de
Pompadour's successor in the affections of Louis "the well beloved."
This is entitled "Madame du Barry at Versailles", and in the Versailles
catalog it is described as painted by Decreuse after Drouais. Decreuse
was a pupil of Gros, and painted many of the historical portraits at
Versailles.

[Illustration: TOM KING'S COFFEE HOUSE IS COVENT GARDEN, 1738

From a printing in the series, "Four Times of the Day," by William
Hogarth]

Malcolm C. Salaman, in his _French Color Prints of the XVIII Century_,
referring to Dagoty's print of this picture, done in 1771, says, "the
original has been attributed to Fr