# Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 744, March 30, 1878

Author: Various; Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871 [Editor]; Chambers, William, 1800-1883 [Editor]

Genre: Category: British Literature

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62970

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## Summary

London boarding-houses being regulated by no statute law, and as little liable to the supervision of the police and the interference of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Home Department as are other free commercial concerns, are very much harder to classify than are London hotels, inns, and public-houses. Their very exterior, which is decorated by no gaudy signs or gold-lettered inscriptions relative to viands, neat wines or cordials, might cause them to be mistaken for schools, workshops, or private dwellings. Even when a brass plate on the door bears the name of Bloss or Grewer or Pawkins—people who keep boarding-houses do appear, for some inscrutable reason, to parade...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III.—TO-MORROW—LIBERTY.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-744-8eb136d8/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.—UNDER THE PARK WALL.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-744-8eb136d8/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.—AT OLD PLUGGER’S.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-744-8eb136d8/chapters/1/index.md)