abeau" possesses scarcely less attraction; but of this
you will find, in Mr. Bulwer's "Autobiography of Pelham," a faithful and
complete account. "Lawson's Hotel" has likewise its merits, as also the
"Hotel de Lille," which may be described as a "second chop" Meurice.

If you are a poor student come to study the humanities, or the pleasant
art of amputation, cross the water forthwith, and proceed to the "Hotel
Corneille," near the Odeon, or others of its species; there are many
where you can live royally (until you economize by going into lodgings)
on four francs a day; and where, if by any strange chance you are
desirous for a while to get rid of your countrymen, you will find that
they scarcely ever penetrate.

But above all, O my countrymen! shun boarding-houses, especially if you
have ladies in your train; or ponder well, and examine the characters of
the keepers thereof, before you lead your innocent daughters, and
their mamma, into places so dangerous. In the first place, you have bad
dinners; and, secondly, bad company. If you play cards, you are very
likely playing with a swindler; if you dance, you dance with a ----
person with whom you had better have nothing to do.

Note (which ladies are requested not to read).--In one of these
establishments, daily advertised as most eligible for English, a friend
of the writer lived. A lady, who had passed for some time as the wife of
one of the inmates, suddenly changed her husband and name, her original
husband remaining in the house, and saluting her by her new title.

A CAUTION TO TRAVELLERS.

A million dangers and snares await the traveller, as soon as he issues
out of that vast messagerie which we have just quitted: and as each man
cannot do better than relate such events as have happened in the course
of his own experience, and may keep the unwary from the path of danger,
let us take this, the very earliest opportunity, of imparting to the
public a little of the wisdom which we painfully have acquired.

And first, then, with regard to the city of Paris, it is to be remarked,
that in that metropolis flourish a greater number of native and exotic
swindlers than are to be found in any other European nursery. What young
Englishman that visits it, but has not determined, in his heart, to have
a little share of the gayeties that go on--just for once, just to see
what they are like? How many, when the horrible gambling dens were
open, did resist a sight of t