ABSTRACT
Everybody, of course, knows of Mivart’s, the Clarendon, and of two or three other hotels of the first class, as they are called – but non cuivis; – whose purse is equal to the expenditure which is involved in a residence at such establishments? Besides, if the stranger be a millionnaire, or a person who is determined to keep up appearance of a millionnaire at an alarming sacrifice, the accommodation which he obtains in return for his lavish expenditure is scarcely commensurate with the outlay. Even if they did so, the aggregate accommodation which all the first-class hotels of London could supply is but as a drop of water in the sea as compared with what is really required. The only hotels at all answering the description with which the people are acquainted are the Great Western and Euston Square hotels, establishments which they believe are conducted with great propriety; but they labor under inherent defect of a bad locality.
