"Where to dine at any time," says the advertisement, as though such a thing as money was quite out of the question, and so many men did not depend upon the hospitality of their old friend Duke Humphrey. Spite of cattle disease and trichine terrors, the human stomach--be it beneath an educated brain, or appertaining to Bill Sykes, of the Somers Town Brill--the human stomach will act upon the mind, and cause it to long after the flesh-pots. _Il faut manger_--as a matter of course, the more moderately the better! and as the Spartans held up the drunken Helot for their youth to shun, why do we not have a double-barrelled statue of Banting erected in our streets--a "look on this picture and on this" style of article, showing the beauties of temperance and moderation--the keeping a tight rein upon gastronomic desires, as opposed to gluttony and feasting. When you _can_ dine, how many temptations are offered, as, urged on by the vacuum which, above all, fond Nature abhors, you stand chinking your coin and considering. You are in London, say; and you stand and ponder. Club? No. Invites? Not one. Where shall it be--at the first-class hotel or the shilling ordinary? Fish with Simpson? Whitebait with Lovegrove? With Bibra? With Rudkin? A steak at the Cock? A snack at the Rainbow? Sawyer! Sawyer! Suggestive of snags and America, and tremendous gorges? Shall it be the London? Shall we mount above the great stationer's--the Partridge and Cozens--suggestive names for a hungry man--impulsive as to the first, and making him think of a cozy dinner after a long tramp in the stubble--checking as to the second. "Call me cousin, but do not cozen me," says somebody somewhere, and most likely the quotation is not correct, but then we hunger and are athirst. No; we will dine in London, but not in "The London." Westward, ho! Strand, Circus, Quadrant, up the great street where rent is said to swallow the tradesman's profit; where the throng is great in the season, while out of the season the dog-fancier pockets his pups, and migrates to the far east. Now down this street to the left.