• THE present HAND BOOK is offered to the public as one of a series of cheap and portable Guides, for the use of travellers at home and abroad-adapted to the requirements of the day, and to the great alterations produced by the extension of the railway system. In writing this work, we have endeavoured to steer midway between tedious descriptions and a meagre list of names; choosing such a plain business-like style and selection of matter as may recommend it to the tastes of the majority of travellers, whose object is to see as much as possible with the least expenditure of time and money. The plan pursued is as follows: Paris, as usual, is the great centre from which all the routes spread; but, looking on the high roads as obsolete for our purpose, the country is taken as it is now parcelled out into six great Sections, among the different Railway Companies. We first follow the trunk lines of each, and then their branches, in succession, as far as they go; describing everything worth notice upon them or in their vicinity, from the nearest station. Next, the roads which traverse a district remote from the new lines of communication, are described from some convenient starting point; and thus every locality of the slightest interest, however distant from a railway, is brought into connection with it and made accessible to the Traveller. Besides the authorities referred to in the text, we have been under great obligations for many useful details in the compilation and revision of this HAND BOOK, to A. Hugo's interesting work, entitled France Pittoresque, and to Hachette's series of French Itinéraires, edited by A. Joanne, and others. It is scarcely necessary to add that the production of a good Guide is a work of time, and the result of much patient thought, and gradual digestion of matter. Those, therefore, into whose hands this little book may fall, are earnestly invited to lend their assistance towards perfecting it, by transmitting such corrections or additional information as may be derived from personal experience or good authority. Notices of alterations in conveyances, hotels, and other heads, will be received with thanks. BRIDGE HOUSE HOTEL, LONDON BRIDGE, OPPOSITE THE SOUTH EASTERN, LONDON, BRIGHTON, & SOUTH COAST, French and German spoken. Night Porters. En face de la Station des Chemins de fer pour Douvres et Brighton. Pour Famiies et Gentilhommes. Salon pour Damés. On Parle Française. Concierge de Nuit. Gegenüber dem Bahnhofe der Dover und Brighton Eisenbahn. Für Familien und Herrschaften Salon für Damen. Man spricht Deutsch. Nachtortier. This Hotel has great facilities for large or small Parties, Meetings, Charitable Institutions, Wedding Breakfasts, Public Dinners, Balls, Soirees, &c. The Assembly Room is capable of seating upwards of six hundred persons, The situation is most convenient for Merchants in the Provision, Hop, Mait, Corn, Seed, Paper and Leather Commerce. For parties arriving from or departing to the Continent. the Hotel is allowed to be, in real domestic comfort, one of the best in the Metropolis, possessing the advantage of a moderate scale of charges, which, with its excellent cuisine, and the care and attention shown to guests, justifies the preference accorded to it. Tariffs on application. Mr. JOSEPH H. SPENCER. Lo-166.] ILLUSTRATED TRAVELLERS' HAND-BOOK TO FRANCE, ADAPTED TO ALL THE RAILWAY ROUTES, LONDON: W. J. ADAMS (BRADSHAW'S GUIDE OFFICE), 59, FLEET STREET (E.C.); BIRMINGHAM :-JAMES GUEST, 52, BULL STREET; SHEFFIELD:-ROBERT CHADDERTON, 21, Bow STREET; PARIS:-MARTINET & Co., 12, BOULEVARD DES CAPUCINES; A. W. GALIGNANI & Co., 224, RUE DE RIVOLI; ALEXANDRIA.-DAVID ROBERTSON & CO., 10, GRAND SQUARE; UNITED STATES:-W. N. HARRISON & SON, 26, SECOND STREET, EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, BALTIMORE. And Bold by all Booksellers, and at all Railway Stations throughout Great Britain, Ireland, and the Continent (70) 246.0.71. 20480 f. 3 (14) THE present HAND BOOK is offered to the public as one of a series of cheap and portable Guides, for the use of travellers at home and abroad-adapted to the requirements of the day, and to the great alterations produced by the extension of the railway system. In writing this work, we have endeavoured to steer midway between tedious descriptions and a meagre list of names; choosing such a plain business-like style and selection of matter as may recommend it to the tastes of the majority of travellers, whose object is to see as much as possible with the least expenditure of time and money. The plan pursued is as follows: Paris, as usual, is the great centre from which all the routes spread; but, looking on the high roads as obsolete for our purpose, the country is taken as it is now parcelled out into six great Sections, among the different Railway Companies. We first follow the trunk lines of each, and then their branches, in succession, as far as they go; describing everything worth notice upon them or in their vicinity, from the nearest station. Next, the roads which traverse a district remote from the new lines of communication, are described from some convenient starting point; and thus every locality of the slightest interest, however distant from a railway, is brought into connection with it and made accessible to the Traveller. Besides the authorities referred to in the text, we have been under great obligations for many useful details in the compilation and revision of this HAND BOOK, to A. Hugo's interesting work, entitled France Pittoresque, and to Hachette's series of French Itinéraires, edited by A. Joanne, and others. It is scarcely necessary to add that the production of a good Guide is a work of time, and the result of much patient thought, and gradual digestion of matter. Those, therefore, into whose hands this little book may fall, are earnestly invited to lend their assistance towards perfecting it, by transmitting such corrections or additional information as may be derived from personal experience or good authority. Notices of alterations in conveyances, hotels, and other heads, will be received with thanks. |