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THE

LAW OF HOTEL LIFE

OR THE




BY
R. VASHON ROGERS Jr.
Of Osgoode Hall, Barrister-at-Law

SAN FRANCISCO:
SUMNER WHITNEY AND COMPANY.
BOSTON: HOUGHTON, OSGOOD & CO.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1879.
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Copyright 1879,
By Sumner Whitney & Co.
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The author knows as well as did old Burton that "books are so plentifulthat they serve to put under pies, to lap spice in, and keep roast meatfrom burning," yet he ventures to offer another volume to the public,trusting that some men’s fancies will incline towards and approve of it;for "writings are so many dishes, readers guests, books likebeauty—that which one admires another rejects." He thinks he can say,in the words of Democritus Junior, that "as a good housewife out ofdivers fleeces weaves one piece of cloth, a bee gathers wax and honeyout of many flowers, and makes a new bundle of all, I have laboriouslycollected this cento out of divers authors, and that sine injuria. Icite and quote mine authors."

This volume was written at the suggestion of the Publishers, as acompanion to "The Wrongs and Rights of a Traveller," and is nowcommitted to the tender mercies of general readers, and to themicroscopic eyes of the critics who know everything. Doubtless mistakeswill be found; but if every one knew the law who thinks he does, lawyerswould starve.

R. V. R. Jr.

Kingston, Ont., March, 1879.

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