All these tall houses, built skyward layer upon layer or flat upon flat, until they show half a dozen stories on one street, and twice that number on the other, are doomed, and they will be done for, one by one in its turn.

They probably came in with Queen Mary, and they will go out under the blue-eyed Alexandra.

They will be supplanted by the most improved architecture of modern taste and utilitarianism.

Edinburgh will be Anglicised and put in the fashionable costume of a progressive age; in the same swallow-tailed coat, figured vest and stovepipe hat worn by London, Liverpool and Manchester.

It will not be allowed to wear tweed pantaloons except for one circumstance;-- that it is now building its best houses of stone instead of brick.
But there are physical features that will always distinguish Edinburgh from all other cities of the world and which no architectural changes can ever obliterate or deface.