and douche baths on every floor. On the ground floor are the _kitchens_, the _wine cellars_, the _ice cellars_, the apparatus for _heating_ the whole buildings by steam, thus spreading a uniform temperature throughout the two Palaces. Here is also the machinery for the _lifts_, the centre for the distribution of the _electric light_ and the boilers and _syphons_ for giving _hot water_ direct into all the apartments. All this deserves being examined from the novelty of the systems employed and from the exquisite order and tidiness which everywhere reigns. We will not describe the _bedrooms_ and _sitting rooms_, except to say that they have all been recently done up and richly furnished with the utmost artistic taste and are all lit with electricity. Many of the apartments have been preserved in the original style, especially the _Saloon of the Doges_, No. 9, which with the adjoining rooms, Nos. 10, 11 and 12, all of which overlook the Riva degli Schiavoni and the magnificent panorama already described. The _wines_ and _the table_ are a great speciality of the Hotel Royal Danieli, all being of the very highest order, and its _dining rooms_ and _restaurant_ arranged with small and separate tables, have an unusual character all their own. The _dining rooms_ are decorated in an entirely novel style and one that is truly poetic. The great windows of ground glass are transformed into eight lovely winter gardens of rare plants, which are reproduced in the big mirrors which line the walls, and the electric light, which hangs in delicate Venetian glass lily pendants round the ceiling, produces a most charming and unusual effect. The two great _restaurant_ halls are furnished in pure style of the Empire, for all the stuffs and decorations are copied from the best works that treat of that period, and are among the richest and choicest of that famous epoch. Thus, by a series of ingenious combinations these two palaces, so different from each other in many ways, blend themselves in one harmonious and artistic whole, and in them are united the greatest luxury with the utmost comfort. [Illustration: SALON OF THE DOGES] To give an idea of the whole we will imagine that a traveler is staying in the apartment of the Doge--which recalls all the pomp and grandeur of old Venice--to go to the breakfast-room and restaurant we will pass through the great Sansovino ball-room, then through the Rose saloon, by the side of which is the music-room (style Empire), and the gallery of tapestry and majolica, and thus reaches the Empire decorated restaurants which we have already described.