the _Bridge House Hotel_, at London Bridge; the _Angel_, at Islington; and the _Elephant and Castle_, Newington Causeway. The almost universal defect of the older class of hotels in London is, that they are too often private dwellings extemporized for purposes of public accommodation—not buildings erected with the distinct object for which they are used. Hence the London hotels, generally, are confined and awkward in their arrangements—a huddle of apartments on different levels, narrow passages, and the offensive odour of cookery being common. Rarely is there anything to parallel the larger hotels of New York, or the _Hotel du Louvre_ at Paris. The nearest approach to these foreign establishments is found in certain hotels adjoining the railway termini, of recent construction. These are the _Euston_ and _Victoria Hotels_, near Euston terminus; the _Great Northern Hotel_, adjoining the King’s Cross terminus; the _Great Western Hotel_, at the Paddington _terminus_; _the Grosvenor Hotel_, at the Pimlico terminus; the _London Bridge Terminus Hotel_, adjoining the Brighton Railway terminus; the fine _South-Eastern Railway Hotel_, Cannon Street; the _Westminster Palace Hotel_, Victoria Street, Westminster; the _Midland_, at St. Pancras; and the _Charing Cross Railway Hotel_. At these new and extensive hotels the accommodation is on a better footing than in the older and generally small houses. But notwithstanding these additions, it is indisputable that the amount of hotel accommodation is still meagre and defective. The want of large good hotels in central situations, to give accommodation at moderate charges, remains one of the conspicuous deficiencies of the metropolis. The _Langham_, however, in Portland Place, is an excellent hotel. So is the _Salisbury Hotel_, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street. The idea of building a large hotel in the Strand, near St. Mary’s Church, was, by-the-by, abandoned in favour of the new _Globe Theatre_; while that handsome building, the _Inns of Court Hotel_, in Holborn and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, has never yet been properly finished, and is now (1873) a failure.