Among the unexploited potentialities for “brightening” London, none offers a wider or more entertaining field for speculation than that of its revival as a watering-place. In view of the present distracted condition of the Continent, the discomforts of European travel and the exorbitant prices that foreign hotelkeepers charge the English for the barest necessaries owing to their apocryphal wealth, the restoration of London to pride of place among the fashionable spas of Europe is worthy of the attention of British medical consultants and enterprising capitalists. Within the past two centuries the mineral springs in and around London have been noted for their marvellous healing properties and our Cockney pump-rooms are among the accepted rendezvous of fashionable society.
• I’ve stayed at hundreds of country house.
