Excerpt from The Fortuna Filly All this may be very nice indeed, and I have no doubt that many people enjoy staying at one of these big caravanserais upon the principle on which the sojourners in a sea-side boarding-house like to dress for dinner - that it is such a change from what they are accustomed to at home, but for my part, I like an Old-fashioned English hotel, with a landlord who knows one's individual tastes and studies them with a cook who can send up a good old-fashioned English dinner, and with English waiters who have graduated in a good English household, and do not smell of garlic. Now, Ben nett's Hotel in Dover Street seems to me to be as near perfection in point of comfort as one can hope to find. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.