It is now almost rebuilt and in a most splendid style of architecture.

I am much prepossessed in its favor.

We have taken up our quarters at the Victoria Hotel, one of the splendid new hotels of the city.

I find the season so far advanced in these northern regions that I am thinking of giving up my journey farther north.

My matters in London will demand all my spare time." "_September 30._ The windows of my hotel look out upon the Alster Basin, a beautiful sheet of water, three sides of which are surrounded with splendid houses.