We copy the following description by Willis, of the Hotel at Taunton - which has become a celebrity - both as a record of progress in architecture and as a warning to landlords about building this kind of property, not to fall behind nience of town hotels generally have been exceedingly improved within the last ten years - but those in the country are for the most part lagging behind. In the country where every body travels, too much attention cannot be paid to designing and keeping hotels, in the best manner. En.

"Tannton has stolen a march on the progress of the age. It probably shows the effect of a few superior minds among its business population. The singular advance beyond other towns of same size is visible in many things; but, among other surprises for the traveller, there is a hotel of Venetian architecture, built in as good taste as any gentleman's residence in the country, and furnished and kept in full accordance with its peculiar elegance of exterior. The contrast, between the impression with which one would probably visit the town for the first time, and what one finds there, in the advance of art and luxury, could scarcely be exceeded. One hears of it as the place for nails and herrings, and, if there is a peculiarly intense specimen of the Yankee to be written about, he would be described as coming "from Taunton, good Lord!" by every anecdote-monger in the country. Yet neither at Windsor nor Versailles would the traveller be lodged and waited on half so luxuriously, nor in any small town in England would the private residences, and their accordance with the natural features of the place, show a taste more refined and liberal.

The public square - Tannton Green, as it is called - is heavily shaded with old and venerable trees, and it has the effect of a noble court-yard to the richly balconied and turreted hotel, while on its opposite sides are one or two mansions of model architecture and grounds - the sitter in any one of the picturesque galleries, upon which open the long windows of the public house, having nothing within view that would not accord with his dream of the most tasteful stopping-places of Europe."