Year: 1859

ness, compared with the smallest London
Park. Here you may drive through long,
gracefully winding avenues, overshadowed by
magnificent forest trees, regaled by the per
fume OF myriads of rare plants and exhilarated
by the fresh air of the country, forgetting for
the time, away from the sight of stone and
bricks, that you are in the midst of the might
lest city in the world.


HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES.


The hotels here are worthy of notice-only
for their meanness The English are totally
ignorant of the system of American hotel keep.
ing, and do not possess a hotel comparable
in size or conv enience of the Bay State, or the
Lincoln House. A hotel is simply collec-
ton of rooms with restaurant attached and
here too they are sadly deficient for have
been unable TO find a restaurant in any way
comparable with the frStclass restaurants in
Worcester. As you enter hotel you will in
variably meet first the kitchen, in which there
is 0itoagS lady who will assign you room.
She is the clerk of the house.


Everything that goes into the restaurant
must pass over the counter in this Office
Kitchen" and be accounted for by the waiter
who orders it, You find no reading room no
smoking-room no drawing-room no Office
room. Everything and everybody is dull
stupid, and uncomfortable, and any American
who can endure London hotel for more than
two nights, might agreeably spend the remain
der Of his life in tomb Everybody, however,
who remains here any length of time, secures
apartments in private houses, and is furnished
with meals in his room, or goes to reStaur-
ant, as best suits his fancy.


Every street contains several houses of this
kind, which are in fact nothing else than small
hotels, containing from four to ten rOomS.-
Here You enjoy all the comforts and convent
enceS Of home, after a weeks residence you
become better satisfied and more contented
than you could be in an American hotel.


ENGLISH ETIQUETTE.


The English waiter is Il peculiar character ;
courteous, kind, obliging, and Of every indeh-
mite answers to your interrogations, capable Of
laughing at any Joke, very attentive and obe
dient without being servile, and withal very
agreeable person to have at hand Gou al
ways find him in a dress coat, aud the remaa-
der of his suit to match. while the gentleman
more frequently dresses in toughest kind of
clothes, and never wears a dress coat except
when in the presence of his superiors, or at a
dinner or dress party. You are not allowed
formally in the presence of any of the Royal
Family without the dress coat. For the same
reason, servants are not allowed to appear be-
fore their supporters, except in full dress One
would be frequently puzzled to know which
was the master aud which the servant, were it
not for the dress coat Servants must always
wear white gloves when on duty, though this
rule does not apply to servants in restaurants
or hotels This appears singular to Americans,
who permit everybody to dress as they please,
but it arises from the custom which requires
the inferior, no matter who he is, to appear
before his superior in full dress


In order to appear before the Queen, it is
necessary to wear court dress, similar in
many respects to a military uniform. There
are numerous places in London were court
suits may be hired at any time, at a moderate
charge, and during the proper season this be-
comes a very lucrative business.