Alas! and the next morning the rain is splashing on the windows, and the passengers flee along Princes Street before the galloping squalls.
[Picture: The Royal Institution] It cannot be denied that the original design was faulty and short-sighted, and did not fully profit by the capabilities of the situation.

The architect was essentially a town bird, and he laid out the modern city with a view to street scenery, and to street scenery alone.

The country did not enter into his plan; he had never lifted his eyes to the hills.

If he had so chosen, every street upon the northern slope might have been a noble terrace and commanded an extensive and beautiful view.

But the space has been too closely built; many of the houses front the wrong way, intent, like the Man with the Muck-Rake, on what is not worth observation, and standing discourteously back-foremost in the ranks; and, in a word, it is too often only from attic-windows, or here and there at a crossing, that you can get a look beyond the city upon its diversified surroundings.