A " REFORMED " PUBLIC-HOUSE [To the Editor of the
SPECTATOR.] Sia,—From time to time articles and letters have appeared in your columns dealing with the companies formed for the promotion of reformed public-houses. The last time I was in England I stayed for some days, in a Midland city, at a hotel owned by. one of the largest of these companies. The hotel was comfortable and well managed, but adjoining it was the public bar, which one had to pass when proceeding to and from the main part of the city.
It was crowded every evening with men and women, who were all drinking, and for whom little facility seemed to be provided for doing anything else. The hotel proper did not communicate directly with the bar, but the window of my room happened to open on to the roof of the bar, and through. the skylight of the latter rose such' an atmosphere of uproarious conviviality and alcohol as to suggest anything
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