patronised by the highest classes of all lands, and yet so free and easy in its arrangements and management as to accord with the simpler tastes of those moving in humble spheres, where the prince and the respectable peasant sit at the same dinner-table, free alike from contemptuous hauteur and servile inferiority. There have we seen ladies and gentlemen "dressed for dinner," in the highest style of fashion, and at the same table worthy hard-working tourists of the knapsack and pedestrian classes, all seeming to be quite at home and dining together in happy accord, as there are no stiff regulations to expel from the table any of decent attire and respectful behaviour. Thus also is it at many other hotels that might be named. And if on the one hand it requires the exercise of unusual assurance for those of quiet and retired habits to mingle with the very élite of "society," on the other it bespeaks a feeling of the very nobility of humanity for the most select in their own circles. to cordially sit at table with large crowds of earnest and hungry tourists, in establishments more apparently designed for the unassuming ranks; and many a glorious display of such intercommunion have we seen in the Swiss hotels of our choice.

The Hotel Coupon business, which was commenced as a friendly arrangement of mutual interest to ourselves, to hotel proprietors, and tourists, has far exceeded our most sanguine anticipations; and as its benefits become better known, they will be more highly appreciated by all who are interested in the success of the scheme.

Of the 200 hotels now on our Continental List, there are few with which we are not personally acquainted; and the growing advantages felt by the hotel proprietors in the system that we have established for them, tells with increasing power to the advantage of the coupon holders.

The hotel coupons are arranged as follows:

Ist coupon (yellow).-Breakfast, specifying of what it shall consist.

2nd coupon (white).-Dinner at table d'hôte, with or without wine, according to the custom of the hotels.

3rd coupon (blue).—Bedroom, including lights and attendance.

These are the ordinary features of continental hotel life, all else being regarded as extras, and as such they are left to be paid for by supplemental coupons or cash.

The coupons are arranged in the form of little currency notes, and they are made most decidedly personal by imprinting on their front the "image" of their founder, with his autograph at foot. The notes are accepted at full value at one principal hotel in each of the chief cities, towns, and places of tourist resort in Switzerland, Italy, on the banks of the Rhine, and at a great many places in France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Austria, &c.; also for meals on board the Great Eastern Channel steamers and the Rhine steamers.

The coupons can only be used for the appointed hotels, a list of which is printed and attached to the cover of the coupon books. If received at unauthorised hotels, they will not be paid for by Thomas Cook and Son.

SUPPLEMENTAL AND EXCEPTIONAL
ARRANGEMENTS.

In London tourists may be accommodated en route to or from the continent at Cook's British Museum Boarding House, 59, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, at 6s. per

day, for bed, breakfast, and tea, with meats. (Hotel Coupons accepted at their full value in payment.)

Hotel coupons are also accepted at the London and Paris Hotel and Refreshment Rooms, Newhaven Wharf. Coupons are accepted for meals on board the Great Eastern Channel steamers, and on the Rhine steamers.

Special Coupons are issued for Vienna, available at the Hotel de France.

For Paris, hotel coupons at special rates are issued for the Grand Hotel.

In Paris, the other hotels in Messrs. Cook and Son's connection are not equal in appearance and style to those of the continent generally; but the proprietors having long evinced a kindly interest in promoting the comfort and convenience of excursionists and tourists, the coupons are allowed to be accepted at the London and New York Hotel, Place du Havre; Hotel St. Petersburg, 35, Rue Caumartin; at the Hotel Beretta (late Londres), 8, Rue St. Hyacinthe, Rue St. Honoré. For these hotels, accommodation cards are also issued at the rate of 8s. per day, including meat for breakfast.

At Rouen, Mrs. Daniells, widow of the late interpreter at the station, who keeps a small hotel, the Victoria, near the station, wishes to accept coupons from parties breaking their journey there.

Additional charges are made on the coupons as follows: At Baden-Baden, at the time of the races, 2 francs per day. At Rome, from the first of December to the end of April, from I franc to 3 francs per day, according to the class of rooms, are now agreed to as extra charges, but new arrangements may have to be made in consequence of Rome being now the capital of Italy. Whatever change is made, notice will be given thereof.

At the Rigi Kulm Hotel, 1 franc extra is required on the bedroom coupon. All these extras can be paid by supplemental coupons or cash.

Conditions and terms of repayment for unused coupons are printed in the coupon-books.

Any complaints which parties have to make as to the use of the coupons, or the conduct of hotel proprietors or servants, to be addressed, in writing, to Thomas Cook and Son, Ludgate Circus, Fleet Street, London.

Coupons can be obtained at the offices of Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son, Ludgate Circus, Fleet Street, London; Cases Street (opposite New Central Station), Liverpool; 43, Piccadilly, Manchester; 16, Stephenson Place, New Street, Birmingham; 15, Place du Havre, Paris; 22, Galerie du Roi, Brussels; 40, Domhof, Cologne; 90, Rue du Rhône, Geneva; and also at the Hotels London and New York, Paris; Swan, Lucerne; Trois Rois, Bâle; Trombetta, Turin; Victoria, Venice.

Repayments for unused hotel coupons can only be made at the Chief Office, Ludgate Circus, Fleet Street, London, and no agents are authorised to repay for any not

used.

Hotels in the East.-A special series of coupons is provided for Alexandria, Cairo, Suez, Port Said, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Beyrout, Constantinople, and Athens.

For Scotland and Ireland also a special series is provided, as per programmes.

EUROPEAN AND EASTERN HOTELS

WHERE COOK'S COUPONS FOR HOTEL ACCOMMODATION WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Amiens

Hotels in France and French Savoy.

Amphion (Lake of Geneva) Grand Hotel des Bains.

Hotel de l'Univers.

Hotel d'Angleterre.

*Paris

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Hotel de l'Europe.

Hotel du Louvre et de la Paix.
Hotel Grande Bretagne.

(Grand Hotel Internationel.

Station Buffet.

Grand Hotel.

Hotel de la Poste.

Grand Hotel (Special Coupons).
Londres et New York, Place du Havre.
St. Petersbourg, 35, rue Caumartin.

See special note on cover of Hotel Coupons.