PUNCH,

OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 101.



September 12, 1891.




SOME CIRCULAR NOTES.

CHAPTER IV.

_REIMS--SOLEMNITY--RELIEF--EN
VOITURE--POLITENESS--CALLING--CALVES--CAVES--STARTING--COCHER--DUET._

Seen the Cathedral. Grand. As I am not making notes for a Guide-book,
shall say nothing about it. "Don't mention it." I shan't. Much
struck by the calm air of repose about Reims. So silent is it, that
DAUBINET's irrepressible singing in the solemn court-yard of the
Hotel comes quite as a relief. It is an evidence of life. This Hotel's
exceptional quietude suggests the idea of its being conducted like a
prison on the silent system, with, of course, dumbwaiters to assist in
the peculiarly clean and tidy _salle à manger_.

"Petzikoff! Blass the Prince of WAILES!" sings out DAUBINET, whose