and latest times; diatetic selection of them;
their disagreements with the stomach; their
medicinal use; and, to wind up all, a long
nosology, or list of recognised diseases, with special
regard to the use or no use that may be found
for lobster and crab in each of them.

TWELVE HINTS FOR US.

HINT THE FIRST.

THE Russians have a convenient way of
sending invitations to dinner, and one which saves a
great deal of trouble and unpleasantness. It is
also the best and simplest mode of protection
yet invented against the carelessness and
mistakes of servants. The dinner giver keeps a
stoutly-bound book, with a pocket on one or
both sides for the notes of invitation. In this
book the names of the guests, and the date
upon which the invitation is sent, are written
down, together with blank spaces for the
signatures of the guests, or their hall-porters or
servants, acknowledging receipt of the invitation.
Thus:

HINT THE SECOND.

There are throughout the East large khans
or hotels, conducted upon a principle which I
have long thought might be imitated with
advantage in Europe. Perhaps one such halting-
place might be established with advantage in
every considerable city. These khans are
usually built round the four sides of a spacious well-
paved court-yard ornamented with a fountain,
and often pleasantly shaded with trees, which
enliven and give an effect of singular grace and
beauty to the spot. The rooms are entirely
unfurnished, and the whole permanent staff
of the establishment consists of a porter to
open and close the gates, and a few guardians
or messengers who live upon what they can
get.

Thither merchants and travellers repair, take
such rooms as they want by the day, furnishing
them as they think proper, living as they please
upon their own fare, with or without their own
servants, and locking up their rooons and taking
their keys with them when they go out. The
stables are conducted on the same principle.
The traveller pays for space, but finds his own
grooms and provender. Many of the rooms are
shop-fronted, so that a traveller arriving with
merchandise may display his wares to the passer-
by, and the agreeable lounge which the place
affords makes loungers as numerous as in an
English arcade or bazaar. A person with a new
invention, anxious to try the public taste, might
here find an excellent opportunity of doing so,
without being forced, as he now often is, to take
a shop in an expensive neighbourhood for a term
longer than perhaps he may require it. These
hotels appear to me the only temporary resting-
places where a traveller may feel himself really
at home and live as he likes, without being
exposed to the idle curiosity of servants and
charges which, however comparatively reasonable
they have recently grown, may be such as he is
unwilling or unable to afford. A brisk young
traveller might here brush his own clothes and
boots, make his own tea and coffee, boil his own
kettle, cook his own chop, and thus live, perhaps,
for about one shilling a day, and yet present a
good face and respectable address to the world.
A couple of chairs, a bed, a table, a chest of
drawers, and a cupboard, hired or bought from
a broker, to be re-sold when done with, would be
all wanted to make him decently comfortable;
and the demand for such things in a neighbourhood
would soon create a supply on moderate
terms.

It would be difficult to over-estimate the
advantages of such an establishment to a large
class of persons. Small foreign traders, for
instance, without connexions in England, and
desirous of introducing some new article of trade
to our markets. Inventors anxious to exhibit
some new discovery, and try the public taste for
it. Emigrants hampered with much luggage,
and wishing to look about them and supply their
remaining wants before starting on their long
voyage. Needy officers in the army, navy, and
civil service, going to and returning from their
posts. Country horse-dealers bringing their
cattle for sale to the metropolis; professional
men wishing for an occasional place of residence
away from their usual houses, where they might
be consulted on fixed days, and unwilling to
carry the instruments of their profession about
with them. Such as dentists, oculists, and
surgeons, of repute in some particular branch
of their profession; country solicitors having
frequent business and many papers and
documents constantly necessary for reference in
London; barristers on circuit, desiring more
privacy than is to be found at a noisy hotel;
public lecturers and entertainers, and all persons
obliged to travel with a good deal of luggage,
and to whom expense is an object, or privacy a
necessity.

Why should there not be club-houses during
the summer in the country as well as in towns?

HINT THE THIRD.

Why should not the chief clubs in the principal
cities of Europe enter into arrangements by
which members of certain clubs should be