save personal attendance, had better send the Hotel Commissionaire afterwards with the keys. The Commissionaire will also obtain the necessary official signature of the police to the traveler's passport. The landlord of the inn is responsible for his honesty. When passing your own luggage you will find that at no time are courtesy and good-humor better repaid than during its examination. Never be in a hurry; collect your packages and open them one by one yourself; lock one before the next is visited.' The officers are only doing their duty, and can make that duty very disagreeable in return for any hauteur or want of courtesy. Always 'declare' any article you believe liable to duty, and remember that every Custom-House Officer abroad can search your person if he chooses.

"All articles such as wearing apparel, not having been worn, must be declared at the CustomHouse. Travelers not conforming to this regulation, will incur not only the confiscation of the articles not declared, but also the payment of a fine. Silks, lace, and other foreign goods, packed with articles of apparel, or otherwise concealed, are, as well as the articles in which they may be placed, liable to seizure; and travelers are warned that the seizure is strictly enforced, unless the examining officer is informed of the articles being in the package and the goods duly declared previously to its being opened."

XIII.-Finding a Hotel after Landing.

It is assumed that the passenger, being an American, already knows how to reach the hotels or railroad depots upon landing at New York.

But suppose him landed in Europe, as at Glasgow. Here he finds porters who offer to carry his baggage; "barrow-men" who have a moderately-sized two-wheeled hand-cart called a barrow, and are licensed for transporting goods about the city, being obliged by law to produce the number by which they are officially registered whenever called upon for it; cabs, upon the top of which is the sign "engaged" or disengaged." He should select his hotel before reaching the city; and during all his travels it would be well to know beforehand the hotels at

which he wishes to stop. If he engage one of the porters to transfer his luggage to the hotel he should clearly specify the price at the time of engaging; if he take a cab he can ride with his baggage at about the same expense as if he sent it alone.

To prevent misunderstanding, and to guard against extortion, it is well to take a note of the number which is always in full view upon the cab. It should be borne in mind that cab-drivers do not handle baggage except to place it when lifted up to them, and to hand it down, for it is not their business-the lifters and carriers are the porters; and at the hotels, sometimes the "boots."

If the tourist secure a barrow he should see his

luggage placed on the cart, and ask for the barrow-man's number, and on being assured that it will be delivered within a specified time, suppose an hour, he can take his course on foot to the hotel. In due time the luggage is received at the office and the man is paid his stipulated price.

In general, in Europe, a traveler depends upon a cab to take himself and his baggage to a hotel, for he does not find the express-delivery companies, as in New York.

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XIV.-European Hotels.

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In general, European hotels, frequently called, England by the old name of inns, institutions by themselves. Many of them are entered from the street through arched passage-ways, some of which lead to an inner court often decorated with flowers and fountains. Both ladies and gentlemen enter by the same passage, there being no "ladies' entrance" our hotels. Perhaps the first impression upon entering the ordinary European hotel will be that it is small and crowded; the entrance hall is narrow and short, and it does not open into large spaces anywhere; it will be a query where the office is located, as well as where you can be lodged in that house, but further acquaintance will reveal its liberal capacity. The theory upon which hotels are conducted is that they are large private boarding-houses to which the public are allowed access. They are private in this, that there is no mingling of guests as in our hotels; there is not the common large parlor, the large office, the general dining-room, exclusively such. This is true with the great majority of hotels which the ordinary tourist meets, yet in some of them he will find the parlor, the smoking-room, the commercial-room, but the bar-room as it exists in the United States is rarely found, if at all. The wines and liquors are served at meals in the dining-room, or they can be ordered to the smoking-room, the commercial-room, or the private room.

With rare exceptions, guests are not called upon to register their names at the hotels in Scotland, England or Ireland. The people travel as private individuals; they do not desire their names to be heralded, they prefer quiet. The landlord is a serving-man and he feels that it is a delicate matter to ask a stranger his name and residence, for perhaps he prefers to remain unknown, The tourist occasionally may be asked to register, or he may see lying on a sidetable in the entrance-hall or waiting-room a book labeled "Visitors' Book," and the posted notice, "Visitors will please register their names," or "Guests will please write their names in the Visitors' Book." But this registration is no essential part of the hotel requirements, all the identity the guest need have is the number of his room. However, in Germany, especially, a stranger entering a hotel or boarding-house is required to give his name, nationality, and place of residence, and this information is handed at once to the police department; this fact causes the tourist to feel singularly haunted by official eyes, even though he is wholly unknown thereabouts. By this system it is easy to inquire of the Chief of Police of any city if such a man is stopping therein.

In Europe it is almost universally understood that engaging a room at a hotel is engaging nothing else, unless it be particularly specified. The only exception that comes to my mind is the Cockburn Hotel in Edinburgh, which charges eleven English shillings per day, everything included, as in the United States. A tourist can therefore engage a room, and then take his meals at the hotel, or at any place that may suit his convenience. This course will be much more