The Waverley novels, by Sir Walter Scott, complete in 12 vol., printed from the latest English ed., embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces & notes.

54 WAVER LEY NiOVELS.
a garden, in the literal sense of the word, or at least but beginning to be
studded with irregular buildings. All that was passing around, low ever,
marked the rapid increase of a capital which had long enjoyed peace,
wealth, and a regular government. HI-ouses were rising in every direction;
and the shrewd eye of our citizen already saw the period not distant which
should convert the nearly open highway on which he travelled, into a connected and regular street, uniting the court and the town with the city of
irondon.
Ile next passed Charing-Cross, which was no lornger the pleasant solitary
village at which the judges were wont to breakfast on their way to Westminster Hall, but began to resemble the artery through which, to use Johnson's expression, " pours the full tide of London population." The buildings were rapidly increasing, yet scarcely gave even a faint idea of its
present appearance.
At last Whitehall received our traveller, who passed under one of the
beautiful gates designed by Holbein, and composed of tesselated brick-work,
being the same to which IiMoniplies had profanely likened the Wcest-Port of
Edinburgh, and entered the amuple precincts of the palace of Ahitehall, now
full of all the confusion attending improvement.
it was just at the tinme when James, little suspecting that he was employed in constructing a palace, from the window of which his only son was
to pass in order that he mright die upon a scaffold before it, -was busied in
removing the ancient and ruinous buildings of De Burgh, Icenry VIIT., and
Queen Elizabeth, to make way for the superb architecture on which Inigo
Jones exerted all his genius. The King, ignorant of futurity, wns now
engaged in pressing on his work; and, for that purpose, still maintained
his royal apartments at Whitehall, amidst the rubbish of old buildings, and
the various confusion attending the erection of the new pile, which formed
at present a labyrinth not easily traversed.
The goldsmith to the Royal HIousehold, and who, if fame spoke true,
oftentimes acted as their banker, - for these professions were not as yet
separated from each other,-was a person of too much importance to receive
the slightest interruption from sentinel or porter; and, leaving his mule and
two of his followers in the outer-court, he gently knocked at a postern-gate
of the building, and was presently admitted, while the most trusty of his
attendants followed him closely, with the piece of plate under his arm.
This man also he left behind him in an anteroom, - where three or four
pages in the royal livery, but untrussed, unbuttoned, and dressed more
carelessly than the place, and nearness to a King's person, seemed to admit,
were playing at dice and draughts, or stretched upon benches, and slumbering with hMlf-shut eyes. A corresponding gallery, which opened from the
aLnteroom,. was occupied by two gentlemen-ushers of the chamber, who gave
each a smile of recognition as the wealthy goldsmith entered.
No word was spoken on either side; but one of the ushers looked first to
ileriot, and then to a little door half-covered by the tapestry, which seemed
to say, as platin as a look could, "Lies your business that way?" The
citizen nodded; and the court attendant, moving on tiptoe, and with as
much caution as if the floor had been paved with eggs, advanced to the
door, opened it gently, and spoke a few words in a low tone. The broad
Scottish accent of King James was heard in reply,-" Admit him instanter,
laxwell. IMave you hairboured sae lang at the Court, and not learned,
that gold and silver are ever welcomel?"
The usher signed to Heriot to advance, and the honest citizen was pre-.sently introduced into the cabinet of the Sovereign.
The scene of confusion amid which he ounud the King seated, was no bad
pict, ure of the state and quality of James's own mind. There was much
that was rich and costly in cabinet pictures and valuable ornaments; but
they were arranged in a slovenly nmanner, covered with dust, and lost half