The charge for a dozen oysters is usually from 2s. to 3s. 6d., according to the season and the rank of the house. Small lobster 1s. 6d.; larger lobster 2s. 6d. and upwards. Snacks of fish 2-6d. Oysters, like pork, are out of season in the month that have no Rin their name, i. e. those of summer.

Confectioners.

Petrzywalski, 62 Regent Street, good Vienna pastry and ices; Charbonnel & Walker, 173 New Bond Street; Bonthron, 106 Regent Street; Duclos, 178 Oxford Street; Blatchley, 167 Oxford Street; Buszard, 197 Oxford Street; Beadell, 8 Vere Street; Gunter & Co., 7 Berkeley Square, good ices; Wolff, 55 Ludgate Hill.

5. Cafés. Billiard Rooms.

At the West End.

Simpson's Cigar Divan, 101-103 Strand, second floor, café for gentlemen, containing a large selection of English and foreign newspapers (see below), and a favourite resort of lovers of chess (admission 6d., or, including cigar and cup of coffee, 1s.). Gatti's Café, Adelaide Street and 436 Strand, large French café, good ices (also a restaurant, p. 12); Carlo Gatti, Villiers Street, Strand; Grand Café Royal, 68 Regent Street (also a restaurant, see p. 13); *Kühn, 21 Hanover Street, Regent Street (restaurant upstairs, p. 13); Verrey, corner of Regent Street and Hanover Street, noted for ices (also a restaurant, p. 13); R. Gunter, 23 Motcomb Street and 15 Lowndes Street, Belgrave Square; Gentlemen's Café, Criterion (p. 13); Monico, 15 Tichborne Street (p. 13); *Vienna Café, corner of Oxford Street and Hart Street, near the British Museum.

In the City.

Peele's, 177 Fleet Street; Brown, 16 Ludgate Hill; Café de Paris, Ludgate Hill; Holt, 63 St. Paul's Churchyard; Stephen, 51 Cheapside; Baker's Coffee House, 1 Change Alley, Cornhill; Wolff's Konditorei, 55 Ludgate Hill.

The People's Café Company, the Coffee Palace Company, Lockhart's Cocoa Rooms, the Kiosk and Coffee Stall Company, and others of a similar kind, have established a large number of cheap cafés in all parts of London. Many of these contain first-class rooms (at increased charges) and rooms for ladies. The shops of the Aërated Bread Company are also much frequented for tea, coffee, etc.

BILLIARD Rooms.

'Horseshoe', 264-267 Tottenham Court Road; W. Cook, 99 Regent Street; Stradwick, 182 Fleet Street; Gatti's Café, see above; Carlo Gatti, Villiers Street; Veglio, Euston Road; Monico, 15 Tichborne Street; Yardley (Kettle), 6-10 Burleigh Street, Strand. The usual charge is 18. per hour (1s. 6d. by gas-light), or 6d. per game of fifty.

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6. Reading Rooms.

Circulating Libraries. Newspapers.

Reading Rooms. Besides the above-mentioned Cigar Divan,

the following reading-rooms, most of which are supplied with English and foreign newspapers, may be mentioned: American Traveller Office, 4 Langham Place, Regent Street; Gillig's United States Exchange, 9 Strand, also with American newspapers (4s. per week, 8s. per month, or 31. per annum); American Register Office, 446 Strand; Colonial Institute, Northumberland Avenue (subs. 1-2 guineas per annum; comp. p. 76); Guildhall Free Library; Temple News Rooms (adm. 1d.), 172 Fleet Street; Central News Agency, 402 Strand, next the Vaudeville Theatre (adm. 2d.); City News Rooms, Ludgate Circus Buildings; City Central News Rooms, 1 Philpot Lane, Fenchurch Street, E. C. (adm. 1d.); Commissioners of Patents Library, 25 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane; Deacon's, 154 Leadenhall Street; Street's Colonial & General Newspaper Offices, 30 Cornhill and 5 Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn; also at 54 New Oxford Street (adm. 2d.).

Circulating Libraries. Mudie's Select Library (Limited), 3034 New Oxford Street, a gigantic establishment possessing hundreds of thousands of volumes (minimum quarterly subscription, 7s.); branches at 241 Brompton Road and 2 King Street, Cheapside. London Library, 14 St. James's Square, with nearly 100,000 vols. (annual subscription 31., introduction by a member necessary); Rolandi, 20 Berners Street, Oxford Street, for foreign books (single books obtainable on deposit of a sum equal to their value); W. H. Smith & Son, 183-7 Strand; Cawthorne, Cockspur Street.

Among the principal public libraries in London are the following. British Museum Library, see p. 255; Sion College Library, on the Thames Embankment, the most valuable theological library in London, containing portraits of Laud and other bishops; Dr. Williams Library, 16 Grafton Street, Tottenham Court Road, containing a large collection of Puritan theology and fine portraits of Baxter and other divines; London Institution Library, Finsbury Circus, with 100,000 vols.; Lambeth Palace Library, p. 298; Allan Library, Wesleyan Conference Office, 2 Castle St., Finsbury, with a fine collection of Bibles and theological works (p. 98): Guildhall Library, p. 99.

Newspapers. No fewer than 400 newspapers are published in London and its environs. The principal morning papers are the Times (3d.), in political opinion nominally independent of party (printing-office, see p. 115); then the Daily News (1d.; a leading Liberal journal), Daily Telegraph (1d.), Standard (1d.; a strong Conservative organ), Morning Post (1d.; organ of the court and aristocracy), Morning Advertiser (3d.; the property and organ of the licensed victuallers), and Daily Chronicle (1d.). The leading evening papers are the Pall Mall Gazette (1d.), the St. James's Gazette (1d.), Evening Standard (1d.), Globe (1d.; the oldest evening paper, dating from 1803), Evening Post (1d.), Star (1/2d.; T. P. O'Connor's paper), Evening News (1/2d.), and Echo (1/2d.).

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All of these are sold at the principal railway-stations, at newsmen's shops, and in the streets by newsboys. The oldest paper in the country is the London Gazette, the organ of the Government, established in 1642 and published twice weekly. The City Press contains city and antiquarian notices; the Public Ledger (first published in 1759) is important for its market reports and shipping register. Among the favourite weekly journals are the comic papers Punch and Fun; the illustrated papers, Illustrated London News, Graphic, Illustrated Times, Pictorial World, Sporting and Dramatic News, and Queen (for ladies); and the superior literary journals and reviews, Athenaeum, Academy, Spectator, and Saturday Review. The Weekly Dispatch, the Observer (4d.), Lloyd's, Reynolds', the Sun, and the Referee (a sporting and theatrical organ) are Sunday papers.

The Field (weekly) is the principal journal of field-sports and other subjects interesting to the 'country gentleman'; and next is Land and Water, also weekly. Bell's Life in London and the Sporting Times are the chief organs of the racing public, and the Era of the theatrical world.

Science and Art Journals: Journal of the Society of Arts, Popular Science Review, Nature, Science Gossip, Knowledge, The Electrician, Science and Art, Scientific and Literary Review, Journal of Photography, Chemical News, organ of the Inventors' Institute. Journals and Transactions of the Geological, Astronomical, and other learned societies.

Commercial and Professional Journals (weekly): The Economist, the leading commercial and financial authority; Agricultural Gazette; Corn Trade Journal; Farmer; Mark Lane Express, mainly relied upon for market prices; Capital and Labour, patronised by trades-unions, mechanics, etc.; Engineer, Engineering Journal, for mechanics, surveyors, and contractors; Builder, devoted to building, designs, sanitation, and domestic comfort; Architect; Colliery Guardian; Mining Journal; Gardeners' Chronicle; Bullionist; Investor's Guardian; Metropolitan, devoted to London borough and parish interests, gas and water supply, rates, improvements; Railway Journal; Money Market Review; Joint Stock Companies Journal; Public Health.

The Anglo-American Times (26 Basinghall Street; 4d.), the American Traveller (4 Langham Place), and the American Register (446 Strand; 3d.) are weekly American papers, published in London. The following are the London offices of a few leading American papers: New York Herald, 33 Cornhill; New York Tribune, 26 Bedford Street, W. C.; New York Associated Press, 62 Gresham Street, E. C.; American Press Association, 34 Throgmorton Street, E. C., and 153 Fleet Street; Boston Daily Herald, 446 Strand; Toronto Mail, 446 Strand; Toronto Globe, 86 Fleet Street.

7. Baths.

(Those marked + are or include Turkish baths.)

Albany Baths, 83 York Road, Westminster Bridge Road.

+ Argyll Baths, 10A Argyll Place, Regent Street, and 5 New Broad Street.

Battersea Baths (public), Battersea.

+ Bell's Baths, 119 Buckingham Palace Road; Turkish bath 3s. Bermondsey Baths (public), 39 Spa Road, Bermondsey.

Bloomsbury and St. Giles Baths (public), with swimming bath,

Endell Street.

+ Bryning's, 191 Blackfriars Road.

+ Burton's, 182 and 184 Euston Road.

+ Charing Cross Baths, Northumberland Avenue.
Chelsea Swimming Baths, 171 King's Road, Chelsea.
City of London Baths, 100-106 Golden Lane.
Crown Swimming Baths, Kennington Oval.

+ Earl's Court Baths, Earl's Court.

+ Faulkner's Baths, 26 Villiers Street, by Charing Cross Station; 50 Newgate Street, E.C.; 8 Little Bridge Street, E. C., close to Ludgate Hill Station; at Fenchurch Street Station. These establishments, with lavatories, hair-cutting rooms, etc., are convenient for travellers arriving by rail.

+ Ford's, 481/2 Kensington High Street.

Galvano-Electric Baths, 54 York Terrace, Regent's Park.

+ Grosvenor Baths, 119 Buckingham Palace Road. Hampstead Baths (public), Finchley Road, N. W.

+ King's Cross Turkish Baths, 9 Caledonian Road, King's Cross. Lambeth Baths (public), 156 Westminster Bridge Road.

+ London and Provincial Turkish Baths ('The Hammam'), 76 Jermyn Street.

Metropolitan Baths, with swimming bath, 89 Shepherdess Walk, City Road.

Old Roman Bath (adjoining bath, see p. 142), 5 Strand Lane (famous for the coldness of its water).

Paddington Baths (public), Queen's Road, Bayswater.

St. George's Baths (public), 8 Davies Street, Berkeley Square, and 88 Buckingham Palace Road.

St. James's Baths (public), 16-18 Marshall Street, Golden Square.
St. Martin's Baths (public), Orange Street, Leicester Square.
St. Marylebone Baths (public), 181 Marylebone Road.

St. Pancras Baths (public), 70 A King Street, Camden Town. + Savoy Turkish Baths, Savoy Street, Strand.

+ Terminus Turkish Baths, 19 Railway Approach, London Bridge. + Turkish Baths, 23 Leicester Square.

Wenlock Baths, with swimming bath, Wenlock Road, City Road.
Westminster Baths (public), 34 Great Smith Street, Westminster.
Whitechapel Baths (public), Goulston Square, Whitechapel.

Hot and cold baths of various kinds may be obtained at the baths above mentioned at charges varying from 6d. upwards. The Public Baths, which are plainly but comfortably fitted up, were instituted chiefly for the working classes, who can obtain cold baths here for as low a price as 1d., from which the charges rise to 6d. or 8d. Most of these establishments include swimming baths. Many of the private baths have most elegant appointments.

8. Shops, Bazaars, and Markets.

The Co-operative System.

Shops abound everywhere. In the business-quarters usually visited by strangers, it is rare to see a house without shops on the ground-floor. Prices are almost invariably fixed, so that bargaining evens in The Shant.

is unnecessary. Some of the most attractive shops are in Regent Street, Oxford Street, Piccadilly, Bond Street, the Strand, Fleet Street, Cheapside, St. Paul's Churchyard, and Ludgate Hill.

The following is a brief list of some of the best (and, in many cases, the dearest) shops in London; it is, however, to be observed that other excellent shops abound in all parts of London, in many cases no whit inferior to those here mentioned. Besides shops containing the articles usually purchased by travellers for their personal use, or as presents, we mention a few of the large depôts of famous English manufactures, such as cutlery, pottery, and water-colours.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS: Burgess & Co., 51 Holborn Viaduct and 51 Farringdon Street; Clayton & Shuttleworth, 78 Lombard Street; Ransomes, Sims, & Jefferies, 9 Gracechurch Street.

ARTISTS' COLOURMEN: - Ackermann, 191 Regent Street (watercolours); Newman, 24 Soho Square; Rowney & Co., 64 Oxford Street; Winsor & Newton, 37 Rathbone Place.

BONNETS, LADIES', see Milliners and Hatters.

BOOKBINDERS: - Bedford, 91 York Street, Westminster; Kelly, 7 Water Street, Strand; Rivière, 15 Heddon Street, Regent Street; Zaehnsdorf, 36 Catherine Street, and 14 York Street, Covent Garden; Bookbinders' Co-operative Society, 17 Bury Street, Bloomsbury.

BOOKSELLERS: Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly; Bumpus, 350 Oxford Street; Butterworth & Co. (law books), 7 Fleet Street; Stevens (law books), 119 Chancery Lane; Harrison & Sons, 59 Pall Mall; Griffith & Farran, 2 Ludgate Hill; Goodman, 407 Strand; Glaisher, 95 Strand; Stanford, 26 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross (maps, etc.); Bain, 1 Haymarket; Bickers & Son, 1 Leicester Square; Gilbert & Field, 67 Moorgate Street; Gilbert & Co., 18 Gracechurch Street, City; Stoneham, 78 & 129 Cheapside, 44 Lombard Street, 129 Fenchurch Street, 39 Walbrook, etc.; Sotheran & Co., 36 Piccadilly and 136 Strand. FOREIGN BOOKSELLERS: - Dulau & Co., 37 Soho Square; Trübner & Co., 57-59 Ludgate Hill; Wil-liams & Norgate, 14 Henrietta Street; Covent Garden; Hachette, 18 King William Street, West Strand; Nutt, 270 Strand; Thimm, 24 Brook Street, Hanover Square; Barthes & Lowell, 14 Great Marlborough Street; Rolandi, 20 Berners Street; Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly; Roques, 64 New Bond Street; Siegle, 30 Lime Street; Dorrell & Son, 15 Charing Cross.

SECONDHAND BOOKSELLERS:

Quaritch (probably the most extensive buyer of rare books in the world), see above; Toovey, 177 Piccadilly; Sotheran, see above; Reeves & Turner, 196 Strand; Stevens, 115 St. Martin's Lane; Jones, 77 Queen Street, Cheapside; Pickering & Chatto, 66 Haymarket. BOOTMAKERS, see Shoemakers.

CARPETS: - Gregory & Co., 212-216 Regent Street, and 44-46 King Street, Golden Square; Hampton & Sons, 8-10 Pall Mall East; Shoolbred & Co., 151-158 Tottenham Court Road, and 34-45 Grafton Street; Marshall & Snelgrove, 334-348 Oxford Street;