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 42 THE TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA which are Hispanic in feeling strong, light, and plain. The new Arlington on Santa Barbara's heights takes its inspiration from the monastery which still harbours a company of Franciscan "frays. On the shore of the old gentle town there is another hotel Spanish in external design, the Potter, which faces both the hills and the sea. The " Mission Hotel " pre-eminent is the Glen- wood at Riverside, an inn with a soul, express- ing California's best-loved traditions. The fluted roofs, the court, porticos and arched campanile, the cloister hall, beautified by ecclesiastical carv- ings and embroideries and containing a noble or- gan all have been planned to one purpose : to restore an image of days when America was to Californians a foreign land, when friars from Cadiz and Majorca played the host. The Inn is the centre of Riverside life, the pa- tron of its Mission pageants, the creator of the sunrise pilgrimages to the peak of Rubidoux; from the orifices of its bell-arch swing the Christ- mas chimes as the Tree Procession passes like a brilliant serpent among the magnolias and date- palms on the festal Eve. The uncommon joys of the Glenwood are sold for a moderate price. If the old custom obtained and the parting guest made an offering commen- surate with his satisfaction, it would without doubt often exceed the four or five dollars a day which