for workmen which have sprung from the munificence of the great American merchant will prove acceptable, is still a question; but there is no question that a system of the kind, applied to the requirements of people with moderate means, would become popular. The Belgrave and Grosvenor mansions promised to supply this want, to the extent of their limits, and it was said that the class of persons who inhabited the houses demolished to make way for them, would be enabled to take up their quarters in these palatial residences. But the idea was a delusion. Accommodation in the Belgrave and Grosvenor mansions is more costly even than in Victoria Street; and the rent of

a single room is, in many cases, as large as that of a moderately-sized house elsewhere. The arrangements, moreover-especially those connected with a restaurant from which the residents are suppliedare of a kind utterly opposed to individual independence; and the mode of living involved is very much like that of an hotel-with the difference that no hotel in London could possibly cost so much. For the sake of so many among us who are being driven to dwell out of town it is to be hoped that the flat system will be tried upon a more modest and moderate scale: of its success there need be no doubt, for the want is wide and well known.