Speaking of automobiles, reminds ame how completely France is overrun in this respect. The national roads are so superb, alli over the country, that swift locomotion is a practicable luxury everywhere. The Americans are west given to the sport. They ome here and buy the most. expense chines and then revel in the del of trying them on French roads. The cmtrast must be delicious with their abominably kept thoroughfares. ~The result of the new craze is that any of the sleepy old towns in central and southern France have been brought into touch with modern life. Old-fashioned hostelries have been converted into new hotels in order to meet the fund for wore comfort of the ering public. Hotels, again, would toru a chapter of themselves: the indus-
The W.-C. herald and S. C. & C. Gapctte.
423 try has become enor {Dieppe probably take the palm for everywhere monster new earanvanserais popularity.
Both places are situated are arising.
They are generally destined at the end of the steamship routes to receive the One f]from England, and consequently are the finest institutions of the kind is|exceedingly easy of access.
To be being built on the site of the palace touch of hor ind. yet to be on formerly occupied by Queen Isabella of Continent in a and. vivacious Spain when she came here after being atmosphere of pleasure and freedom driven forth from Madrid.
The name from the ordinary monotonous round, of this hotel is the Majestic. Another, to any Englishmen of fixed habits, to be called the Astoria, though it lias the highest form of relaxation. Both nothing to_do wi the great hotel in Dieppe and Boulogne have established Broadway, New York, occupies a com-golf links on the cliffs and, in the manding position near the Etoile. It|former place at al events, the sport, is is particularly splendid in its facade. excellent. Nothing is more remarkable There ix talk of erecting a large estab-than the way in which golf has spread lishment on the Place de La Concorde itself on the Continent clu the last itself, the most beautiful and spad fow years. Every seaside place of any square in Euro This hotel, if it portance, nowadays, and every xp, comes to pass, will take the place as golf links more or less good with of a fine histon ion which had its|a professional attached to teach the hour of calebs ly under the Second rudiments of the game to aspiring Empire. One is glad to hear that the Frenchmen. fade, which in strict harmony with the dignified hitecture of the Place, THE GOLF CHAMPION, will be religiously preserved, in the A. great impulse of course has been hereto espe new Leas Tu the given to golf and other sports in France centre of the town, near to the boule-hy the victory of Around Massey in the yards, there is also question of the Gpen Golf Championship at Hoylake, ction of a new house of public enter-last month. I have the pleasure of tainment. The present hotels, like the knowing Massey personally, and have Grand and the Continental are always often played golf with him over the full; one has to order rooms weeks it excellent and sporting links of La Bou-advance to have the least chance close to Versailles. Massey is a getting them, so that any number of sturdy looking fellow with the build and new ventures, provided they are properly very much the character of a Scotchman, managed, are almost sure to pay.
When he arrived at La Boulie two or
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