NEW YORK
BRENTANO’S
Paris Washington Chicago London
Copyright 1891,
BY
MORRIS PHILLIPS
THE ART PRESS,
DEMPSEY & CARROLL,
36 EAST 14TH STREET,
NEW YORK.

TO THE MEMORY OF
GEORGE W. HOWS,
MY FAITHFUL FELLOW-WORKER AND DEAR FRIEND OF
MANY YEARS, THIS VOLUME OF SKETCHES IS
AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

“Travel is the great
source of true wisdom.”
—Beaconsfield.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
Preface, by the Hon. A. Oakey Hall,[5]
GREAT BRITAIN.
London on Wheels,[9]
London Hotels,[24]
A Few Boarding Houses,[47]
Where to Lunch in London, and Where Not to Lunch,[49]
Railway Travelling in England,[59]
An Hour with Spurgeon,[67]
The Crypt of St. Paul’s,[71]
The Queen’s Mews,[74]
A Question of Hats,[77]
London Oddities,[79]
Poverty and Charity in England,[85]
Where is Charing Cross?[88]
Margate,[89]
Two Brighton Hotels,[97]
A Visit to Bleak House,[100]
Takin’ Notes in Edinboro’ Town,[105]
The Burns Monument,[112]
Rt. Rev. the Moderator, James MacGregor, D.D.,[116]
Crossing the Channel,[123]
PARIS.
Paris Hotels,[124]
Pensions of the First Class,[134]
The Restaurants of Paris,[137]
The Anglo-American Banking Co.,[146]
Au Bon Marché,[147]
THE UNITED STATES.
Georgia—
The De Soto, Savannah,[149]
Thomasville,[155]
A New Southern Resort,[165]
Florida—
A Cuban City (Key West),[171]
St. Augustine,[180]
About Tampa,[185]
California—
Monterey,[190]
San Diego and Coronado,[199]
Santa Cruz,[213]
Redondo Beach,[221]
Pasadena,[225]
Los Angeles,[231]
The California Hotel, San Francisco,[235]
Salt Lake City,[239]
The Auditorium Hotel, Chicago,[243]
Max O’Rell on American Hotels,[249]