ABSTRACT
People live in it apart from each other, as they would do in a lodging establishment; and for this seclusion, and the special way in which they are served, they usually pay at an extravagant rate. A hotel in Belgium, France, Switzerland, or Germany, has no resemblance to a private mansion. It is a structure of vast dimensions, built for the purpose, with a large front to the street, and a gateway which conducts he people into an inner court, surrounded with buildings belonging to the establishment. The number of rooms in some of the continental hotels is surprising. To prevent confusion as to bells, a curious improvement has lately been introduced into continental inns. Continental hotels are evidently got up by persons of considerable capital; and that the proprietors are possessed of no small degree of taste, is apparent from elegant manner in which their establishments are embellished. English waiters rarely speak any other language than their mother tongue.
